Morris Boughton
My story is almost the same as Rosalyn Kaplus‘ story.
When I re-read it, I believe it is the same.
My stone had been previously blasted. It was detected prior to my prostate surgery. (Sepsis and Kidney Stones) This stone was approximately 7 mm. After the procedure, I was told that the blasting procedure was successful.
A month or so after the successful DaVinci robotic surgical removal of my prostate, I experience projectile vomiting in the morning; My wife took me to our primary care doctor’s office, whereupon, after continuous blood pressure readings kept sky-rocketing, I was delivered to Emergency.
After a very short time there, I was delivered by ambulance to the Hospital.
The hospital, after a number of blood tests, determined that I was in Renal Failure and was experiencing Sepsis. “Keep drinking water they kept saying.”
Two days later, I delivered the stone and showed it to my urologist. Approximately 20 percent of it was blown away. (Almost a perfectly flat surface resulted on one side of the stone.)
After that, I was in the hospital for about 7 more days. Most of the time, I was kept on 24-hour watch. I had no idea where I was. Even though the bed was monitored, I kept getting up and wandering around looking for the bathroom (getting caught by the nurses). One of them told me the reason was, a similar patient was caught too late. (He stood next to the bed and pee’d all over it.)
I was in such a fog I never really knew how sick I was.
I’m a lucky guy. They said I had infected blood, no kidney function, pneumonia, and an infected bladder.
I lived!
Now, one year later, an ultrasound shows that I have another kidney stone, approximately 5 mm, even though I’ve been taking huge doses of potassium citrate since the first episode.
Oh well—we will see how this new discovery goes.