Certainly Jeff Bezos is one of the fortunate few to whom the term "Master of the Universe" or versions thereof truly applies. Internet visionary, brilliant marketing savant, would-be space conquerer, newly ascended role as publisher of the soon-to-be vanquished crown jewels of MSM's imperious dead-tree dinosaurs aka 'Washington Post', Jeff Bezos has got it all.
I harbor no personal resentment towards Bezos nor any sense of Schandenfreude in the unfortunate situation he's currently been subjected to.
Nevertheless, to borrow a Yiddish phrase, Der Mensch Tracht, und Gutt Lacht, Man plans, while God ridicules.
Wouldn’t Cuba have been closer?
“Bezos confirmed the incident today, with an Amazon spokesperson providing the following statement to Business Insider: “I sent Jeff your note and here’s what he sent back: ‘Galapagos: five stars. Kidney stones: zero stars.’”
That’s pretty funny.
I had one on a flight from Denver to JFK.
The captain of the Boeing 767 came back to my seat and offered to put the plane down in any city on the way. I told him I’d stick it out and go to an ER on Long Island.
Little did I know that it was Yom Kippur and everyone has to be home by sundown.
Bottom line; heavily sedated I made it back to Denver and went to a three beam lithotripsy machine which turned the 1.2 cm stones to sand.
Root cause as it turned out: tea drinking.
We were in Machu Picchu and Galapagos in Sept. He’s right.
I pity any poor fool that gets the stones... Three timer here...
Bezos is lucky he’s famous and wealthy.
Do you think anyone ordinary would’ve been afforded the same privilege?
Get real.
Airlifted to to a private jet and flown to the US?
Maybe Obamacare is not all that bad.
This is news?
I’m “blessed” to be a kidney stone making factory. I’ve lost count of how many stones I’ve had now. Passed many, surgically removed others and lipotripsy. Had ‘em all.
The pain is quite intense and there is pretty much nothing you can do to minimize the pain. Even Morphine does nothing more than slightly take the edge off, but that’s about it.
The first time you get one you’re pretty sure you’re gonna die. The next few times you know what it is and you know how to prepare and the steps that you’ll soon need to take, but it’s never any picnic.
My guess is this may have been a first for Bezos and they didn’t know what was happening, and; being in the middle nowhere in addition to being the CEO of a major stockholding company, it’s understandable the steps that were taken. Companies need to take care of their key people and insure them heavily.
I can’t imagine living in a world where there was no treatment for kidney stones.
And....? My sister had kidney stones, but it didn’t make the news.
I had a kidney stone attack on Oct. 4. It’s the WORST pain EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.