hows Tom ?

[Chris L NYC]

while you animals are arguing about which Doctor Who is better , The Great One is suffering . I need a medical update please .

cheers american style
chris l nyc

[Jason]

I know he had some treatment yesterday, here's hoping he is well and I don't think there's any question about who the best Doctor Who is.

[Omar]

I believe the stone was surgically removed yesterday afternoon.  It was not passing on its own accord.  Alas, it was using a '97 Civic to traverse The Kid's urinary passageway, and that just won't do.  A Range Rover was needed.  I hope the surgery was, as Borat might say, "great success".

My theory about this whole thing:  Vincent Gallo put a hex on Tom's kidney.

[Chris L NYC]

Thanks for the update .

Get Well Soon Tom !

[Rainer]

Not to underscore too much, but I had a similar malady and Tom's comparison to being kicked in the crotch on a rowboat is spot-on.  (Imagine a man  named "Willy" inserting an optical camera ... ok, this isn't a porno show)

Never heard of a surgical procedure being necessary to remove a kidney stone.  We need to transition Tom from cola to vegetable broth or made-on -the-spot ginger ale (seltzer + a few slivers of fresh ginger + honey/sugar).

[Jixby Phillips]

I am so scared of kidney stones. about once a month I search for kidney stone information to make sure I'm not consuming things that would make me have one.

Tom has faced my fears so I don't have to. Thanks Tom, hope all is well.

[Jason]

Tom has faced my fears so I don't have to.

Yes, Tom suffers so that we don't have to.
A timely comparison with Easter around the corner.

[Grimlock]

So I drink lot's of sody.

I just woke up, and had a sody for breakfast. I drive around with extra sodys in my car. Sometimes, I'll top off a refreshing sody with a sody, as a kind of sody dessert. I LOVE SODY.

Does this really make me a prime target for the stones that kid?

Because I love my sody, but I love my urethra more.

(Get well Tom Baker is the best Who)

[jed]

I LOVE SODY...Does this really make me a prime target for the stones that kid?

My younger brother started drinking lot's of Coca-Cola a couple years ago. He would buy 2 litre bottles from the grocery store and drink it without a cup. He got a kidney stone and his Dr. warned him about drinking so much sody. He didn't listen and got another one a month later. He doesn't drink so much and it seems to have fixed the problem. When Fred from Queens gave his diagnosis I immediately thought of Tom's love for Coke Blak.

[jane]

Tom I wish you a speedy recovery.  We miss you. 
Waiting to pass a stone must be rough, kinda' like waiting for the next kevin Smith movie to come out, or a call from Fred and his new wife...waiting in line to get into the bathroom at a Barnes and Noble or waiting for a friend to find this Zappa CD which he promises "will totally slay you".
Hang in there, chief

[bobby.]

Tom has faced my fears so I don't have to.

Yes, Tom suffers so that we don't have to.
A timely comparison with Easter around the corner.

Tom gets kidney stones for our sins..

[Rainer]

Yes, Tom suffers so that we don't have to.
A timely comparison with Easter around the corner.

The operation is a success, but Tom -- like the Peter O'Toole character in The Ruling Class -- now believes he, himself, is Jesus Christ.  He drops all contact with Earles and Wurster and spends his entire show lambasting Tony Coulter for making light of Him and His Word.

What was the show where the Scratchy Record made some flippant comment about Christianity and that woman called Tom to complain?  That moment is one of my favorite Best Show moments because it showcases Tom's ability to gracefully navigate a multi-tiered moral quagmire with wit, compassion and ease. End of brown-nosing.

[Tom Scharpling]

Hey everyone!

How is Tom? Tom will live.

To tell the story, the pain that I got a half hour into my show two weeks ago was a kidney stone. I sat still for an hour, played Miles Davis, rode out the pain enough to do 90 minutes of call-ins. But I left the station in pain and made my way to the ER a couple hours later. They CAT scanned me and spotted a 6 mm kidney stone. A urologist that I saw a day later told me that I should try to ride it out.

For the next week I experienced sharp bouts of pain and a general queasiness. The kidney stone felt like it stopped halfway down on its journey out of my body, so I went back to the urologist, who said we had to get it out the next day via a surgical procedure that I never want to think about again.

I went in, got it done, it went well - they showed Jillian Barberie the offending stone while I was still knocked out, and she said it resembled a small guitar pick, with all it's pointy ends. I then went home that night, but had to go back to the hospital a few hours later because it the pain was off the charts bad - just insane kidney and bladder spasms. On the bright side, I now can say what the worst pain I've ever felt in my life is. It was like getting stabbed from the inside out.

I went back to the ER and promptly got hooked up to an IV where they gave me something that took me to Jupiter. I got another CAT scan, where they determined that I had ANOTHER kidney stone! They kept me in the hospital and I was ready to go back into the OR the following day. Thankfully my urologist showed up and said that it wasn't another kidney stone - whew! It was only 10 millimeters of clotted blood that I had to pass on my own. Whee!

So for the last two days I've been home, drugged up, feeling slightly better but still a ways away. I won't be doing my show this Tuesday because I've got more recovering to do and a doctor's appointment the following morning.

Thanks to everybody who sent their wishes, thoughts and prayers my way. It truly did help - I was thinking about all of that stuff when I was on the table waiting to get brought in. You guys are the best.

So it comes down to The Kid versus The Kidney Stone, and while the Kidney Stone may have the lead right now, but The Kid will come out on top!

Thanks again everyone.

Tom.

[Jack]

wow, thats unimaginble and brutal.  I can't imagine, stone to surgery to possible stone again!  Rest well, and think about selling the stone on eBay.

[Eric]

Really relieved to hear you're doing better, Tom. You did have us worried there, for a bit. If there's anything positive to come of all this, it testifies to that old maxim, "You can't stop the Best Show, you can't top the Best Show." In all seriousness, it sounds like a nightmare. Glad to hear you got through it and looking forward to your return, sir. Best wishes.