Today, was the day for my hubby to have his stone blasted, it could be several weeks before he may pass any of them. Since hubby has one kidney stone in each kidney, they could only do one side at a time. There is and new procedure for blasting kidneys, they put you on and flat table with and donut hole in the center and put a pillow under your head and a pillow under your back and the blasting is done by laser. The patients goes into and la-la land and the procedure last about 45 minutes. The old way was to put the patient in water some way and then blast the stones. Plus, several weeks ago they put and stint in each kidney. When he passes the stones the stints will have to be taken out. Poor baby, to and men passing kidneys stones, is like and women giving birth. I'm praying he passing his twins pretty soon for he has been hurting for and month, as well as out of work due this horrible mess.