STONEY, STONEY, BE GONEY???

Today we went for Trent's Ureteroscopy. Before the procedure we got an xray and the stone was still in the exact spot of course. No surprise. Dr. Khim said he thought he was going to get in there and it be rock hard solid. Also he has 2 more spots that are going to have to be monitored closely. 1 still in the right kidney and today something else showed up in a different spot than the previous stone on the left side. The doctor said it may not be in the kidney, it may just be shadowing from something in his intestines but we will watch it closely for a possible kidney stone. Anyways, after the procedure Dr. Khim said "well something very crazy happened while I was in there". Apparently the lithotripsy somewhat worked but not totally. He said when he got in there, the stone was all compacted into 1 still lodged in that same spot but when he hit it with the scope, it crumbled into tons of little pieces. Since it crumbled into so many pieces, he did not have to do as much as what he thought he was going to have to do therefore, he did not have to place the stent he originally told us he was going to do. He also said since the stent did not have to be placed, Trent should recover much quicker. Needless to say, Trent was more than happy not to have the stent. Not long after we got home, Trent was in some pretty Severe horrendous pain around the front side near his groin. Sounds as if the stones were moving on through the tract cause the pain he was having he said was the pain he normally has when passing stones. Right now he is a little sore but not as bad as a little earlier. Before leaving, Dr. Khim said "have fun on your trip". Dr did not think it would be a problem for us to go and said Trent should be feeling pretty good. As of now, we plan on leaving out tomorrow sometime to go to Gatlinburg. Hallelujah thank God. We needed to get away so bad.

Anywho, I think and hope this will be the last kidney stone update. We follow up with him on December 1st but hopefully everything will go good then.