A little over a week ago, on the day before my soccer tournament in Copenhagen, I passed my largest kidney stone to date. It measured 6.5mm x 4.0mm and is pictured above on the logo of my laptop computer. I strongly suspect that this stone passed from my kidney to bladder several months ago when I was experiencing very severe pain. I believe that the 70 miles of hiking I did over the prior week probably got it started on the last leg of the journey which proved relatively painless. I apologize to followers of this blog for the inclusion of such entries which I suspect are of little interest and/or gross. I do so because the blog has become very valuable to me as an indexed and searchable journal which makes it easy to keep track of such events which is helpful when doctors inquire about medical history.