So I'm going to tell you guys about a time when I was very sick. This was about 10 years ago, back when I was a young in college and I was in class and I started feeling a little bit off. I started having fever and chills while I was in class and feeling very lightheaded. So I asked my professor if I could go home, which they let me. So I got in my car and I drove to my apartment. And I took some ibuprofen and I tried to take a hot bath, but the fever just kept getting higher.

And then I started getting these weird, like, stomach cramps that would come and go every few minutes and they would get really intense, and then they would go away and then I would throw up. And then the stomach cramps moved from just being in my stomach to being in my back as well. And so I was just throwing up constantly. I couldn't go more than 10 minutes without throwing up. My fever was high. I was lightheaded. I couldn't breathe very well because of the pain in my back and in my stomach.

And so at that time I called my older brother, who lived in the same city that I did, then was going to the same university and he drove to my apartment and he had to pick me up because I didn't have enough strength to walk and he had to carry me to the car. We went to the emergency room in Phoenix, Arizona, and I had to wait for a while and they made me throw up in this little tiny bucket that they had. It was like I would throw up once in the bucket would be full, and I kept filling up the bucket, but they finally got me back into the back and they had to do a bunch of tests and they did some CT (Computed Tomography) scans and some ultrasounds, and in the end they diagnosed me with two kidney stones.

So I had stones in my kidneys, which was causing the pain in my back and in my stomach, and I was given medication for that and went and changed my diet because apparently if you are dehydrated, not drinking enough water, you could get kidney stones. So I now drink plenty of water, and I haven't had any issues since.