We’re heading to the urologist tomorrow morning as early as we possibly can.  The bad news?  Autumn is sans-insurance and we don’t have any cash or an appointment.  I’m really hoping these people are gonna cut us some slack and hook us up with a little extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, anyway.  See, Autumn’s stone is currently still in the ureter, en route to the bladder.  Unfortunately, the trip through this tube is the excruciatingly painful part of the kidney stone process, so it has left Autumn screaming in pain for half the day.

Even worse…since her stone is 7mm in diameter, it’s pretty much never going to make it to the bladder on its own.  It’s just gonna be stuck in there until we can see the specialist.  Slightly smaller stones of 1-5mm can generally just pass by themselves, so we really got unlucky with this one.

It sucks a lot.  I’m pretty much helpless to do anything at this point.  I’ll certainly keep you updated as things progress.