Please excuse any bad grammar in this post; I've been at the hospital for over 13 hours now.
My husband had been diagnosed last December with a 2.5cm bladder stone. He's been on a waiting list to have surgery, but last night had renal colic and this morning was unable to urinate and was bleeding. He's in his 20's.
The day has been to the ER with one hassle after another. Long story short(ish), they pushed a bladder stone that had lodged in the bladder/prostate neck back into the bladder (5 catheters later) and sent us home. An hour later we called an ambulance as soon as my husband tried to urinate, the stone flew into the lower part of the urethra in the penis.
After much time, screaming and what I would call trying to dig out the stone, they finally decided the stone was too big, and to do surgery to remove the stone. My husband should be out of surgery now, but I'm still waiting for the call.
The surgery was very sudden and I have had little to no time to research this topic. I haven't had much luck finding any information on stones suck in the urethra. What should I be asking the doctors in the morning?
What kind of post-op treatment, recovery, medication etc? Any scans that should be done?
And can anyone explain how it would have been stuck in the bladder/urethra/prostate bottle neck in the first place - and then managed to suddenly make it's way down past that point almost immediately after?
They mentioned stricture as a complication and possibly having to make an incision at the head of the penis, closing it up with stitches.
I'd appreciate any suggestions of what to ask and look out for as I'm absolutely pooped and still quite panicked.