Kidney Stone Hats

Roughly one in ten people will pass a kidney stone, and Keck Medicine puts the lifetime risk at about 10% for men and closer to 5% for women. Those who have been through it talk about it the way people talk about labor, and the research backs the comparison: a 2016 survey of patients rated the pain very similar to childbirth, an average of 7.9 out of 10. One forum poster called it the worst pain of their life, including giving birth. Another described morphine as their new best friend. That mix of agony and gallows humor is the whole joke, and it is what these designs carry. These Kidney Stone hats are for survivors, the recently discharged, and anyone buying a get-well gift that will actually get a laugh. KIDNEY STONER already sells as a hat, sock and pin on TeePublic, so it is here too, next to a plain KIDNEY STONE badge. The sentence designs go further: giving birth to the stone, a gravel business run by the kidneys, a pain scale that went to 11, a medal for passing it, a eulogy, and the sound-wave treatment doctors call lithotripsy. I GAVE BIRTH TO A KIDNEY STONE and the medal line each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the follow-up appointment, or send one to the friend who is still afraid to drink less water.