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Aaron has been battling a kidney stone for the past 2.5 weeks. More doctor visits. More medications. More procedures. More not feeling good. More pain. At first I was worried blood in the urine meant the cancer medication was doing a number on his liver or kidneys, so having it be a stone was actually good news (if we are looking for the silver lining here). This was the first time Aaron had to have a stone blasted. I would describe the blasting procedure as basically being punched in the side 4,000 times. Lithotripsy is the technical term. Now we wait for all those stone fragments to pass. I have thought a lot about stones. Stones and bread. One night, at the beginning of this cancer journey, these scriptures popped into my head: “…what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?   “Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father ...