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.