One of the things that woke me up about an hour ago was a small, brief, but very sharp stabbing pain in my right lower abdomen.   About where the right kidney is…I think.  I had one about an hour or so before bedtime and just shrugged it off.  Now I’m on alert.  I am not looking forward to my first kidney stone.  Not one bit. 

Ages ago when I was working as an architectural modelmaker, one of the architects I was working with on a project told me about his first kidney stone attack.  He said it happened to him as he and his wife were walking to their car after eating out somewhere.  He said his first thought was that he’d just been shot.