>The weather today on the way back was awful torrential rain and high winds
>but apart from that and all the dramas we had a really good restful time.

> kidney stone

> As previously posted, we were all set to head of the 350 miles or so
> to Kinsale on 23rd December. All was packed including the fixings for
> Christmas dinner and various nice foodstuffs that we like. At 6am on
> the morning we were due to head off himself woke up with excruciating
> pain in his back and groin and upon returning from the bathroom
> collapsed in a heap in front of me. I managed to help him into jeans
> and a t-shirt and got him to the car and promptly to the hospital
> where he collapsed again at the triage station. They gave him some
> intravenous pain relief and took x-rays and observed him for 8 hours
> before letting us go home indicating he had to drink 3 litres of
> water a day as it was probably a kidney stone and to come back
> immediately if it flared up again. We told them we were going on
> holiday that day and they advised us to cancel it. This was a bit
> awkward as my eldest had invited a girlfriend to my house for the
> holidays and we had paid (and not bothered with insurance) a
> substiantial amount of money to rent the place in Kinsale.
> Anyway we decided to sleep on it and as he felt as right as rain on
> Christmas eve we headed off to Kinsale at 7.30am arriving at 1.30pm.
> The house we had rented overlooked the harbour and was excellent. We ...