Broadgage unwell.

[whole diary]

[johnneyw]

I'll add my best wishes too Broadgage.

[Western Pathfinder]

My best wishes for a speedy recovery,hope that it's no more than a passing inconvenience.

[ellendune]

I think they use ultrasound rather than laser. 

[stuving]

I think they use ultrasound rather than laser. 

That's what I thought, but it seems that laser lithotripsy has now become fairly common even in the NHS. It's a recent thing, and the word "lithotriptor" still only applies to the machine that generates bursts of ultrasound, applied externally.

Apparently the laser technique requires a general anaesthetic, which is a little ominous. So I'll wish broadgage the best of outcomes. At least being under a general prevents dwelling too much on how something (the guiding camera, in particular) that big gets to where the stones are lurking.

[TonyK]

My best wishes also for a speedy recovery and return home, in whichever order it happens. My similar regards to your neighbour if he has decided to repeat his rapid decrease in potential energy to be in the next bed again.

[broadgage]

Operation cancelled ! hospital transport failed to turn up.

[TonyK]

Ureteroscopy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy can both use lasers.

All Greek to me.

[JayMac]

Apologies folks. Accidentally deleted my post while editing. What I'd said is as quoted by TonyK. Got his quote in just before I hit the wrong buttons.

[bobm]

Just as well you are not broadgage’s surgeon with that show of manual dexterity.

[PrestburyRoad]

Best wishes to Broadgauge for a successful procedure.

I had a kidney stone until I my operation last week so I had done a bit of reading up on treatments.  Laser is the newer method and is the least invasive because it uses an existing access route, and it's what I had last week, successfully, NHS, under general anaesthetic, and it was all done in a day and I was back home in the evening, though there was a possibility of staying in overnight after the operation if necessary - such as slow recovery from anaesthetic or lack of overnight carer.  Ultrasound is an older method and is applied externally; and percutaneous I think is reserved for the difficult cases because it involves cutting into the abdomen.

I am grateful for modern medicine.

[broadgage]

Operation cancelled due to hospital transport not turning up AGAIN.