Isn’t the best ending to having a kidney stone to pass it? At least, better than not being able to pass it.
A few of the kidney stone comments on this comic:
“Better pass than fail”
“Well, well, well…Dylan wasn’t right! NOT “Everybody Must Get Stoned””
“Medical students dread the test on kidney stones. It’s the hardest one to pass.”
“Man walks into a bar. Bartender “Do you want to enter our drawing? We’re giving away a set of kidney stones.” Man responds “Nah, I’ll pass””
While we’re on the topic: (not a CIDU)
Comics I Don't Understand 
Lithotripsy (smashing stones with ultrasound) has been around for decades, and I finally looked it up. Thanks, CIDU!
That Close to Home doesn’t need a caption.
“Once you start feeling the pain of a kidney stone, it can take anywhere between one to four weeks for the stone to actually pass. In the meantime, the pain can seem sporadic.” Houston Methodist
I know a woman who passed kidney stones 3 weeks before she gave birth to her first baby. Afterwards we asked which one was worse. She had to think about it.
My long-time barber gets them approximately monthly. He’s had the experience of being at the ER and telling them he has a stone and being argued with: “If you had a kidney stone, you’d be in more pain than you are”. Nope, he’s just sort of gotten used to it. Nothing he’s tried has helped.
My wife has had several, including a 35mm staghorn (look it up–or maybe don’t) that resulted in surgery, and an impacted one last year that resulted in a week in hospital, another week in rehab, a nephrostomy tube for four months, and almost cost her a kidney. It also reduced the function of that kidney by 80+ percent. So DO take them seriously, it’s more than just a lot of pain.
A lot of that is true of children as well. ;)
I had a stone back in the 70s, before lithotripsy was a thing. They said they couldn’t give me any pain meds because the pain was a measure of how the stone was moving. Later I found out that wasn’t true, this particular attending just did things that way. Sadist.
Spent 3 days in the hospital, peeing through a strainer.
Let’s see, now. “Litho-” means stone and wasn’t “tripsy” the upstairs neighbor in The Honeymooners?
Heh, heh. For those who might not remember, it was probably “Trixie”. Which it only now occurs to me is unlikely to be an actual given name, although I cannot come up with a “full name” that would likely be shortened that way.
Her husband, played by Art Carney, was named Ed Norton, and when actor Edward Norton came along many years later he was such a radically different persona that nobody could get confused anyway.
And of course one recalls that the neighbor relationship was vertical, because of the shared telephone which they could lower or pull back up by its cord.
Mitch4 – Beatrice, Beatrix, Beatrice, Patricia all come to mind as sources for “Trixie”.