Kidney and Urethral 尿道的 Stone

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John de Jong, Dog owner wants to leave no stone unturned. Boston Herald, Mar
http://bostonherald.com/entertainment/lifestyle/view.bg?articleid=1323037

My comment:
(a) the surname de Jong is Dutch meaning ‘the young’, for the younger of two bearers of the same name--usually a son. The English and German counterparts are Young and Jung, respectively.
(b) The vet stated, "Signs of urinary stones can include straining, bleeding, etc."

That really hit me. When I was about 10 years old in City of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I visited an eye doctor because my eyes were tired. I returned home and swallowed a pill prescribed by the doctor, and felt the tongue was a bit numb. A few hours later, I went to the bathroom but had a hard time urinating. After some efforts, several DROPS of fresh blood came slowly out, one by one. I was alarmed, naturally. The doctor said the prescription was nothing unusual. The next morning the urine did come out easily but it was tea-colored. I experienced no pain the day before or that day.

I went to see many doctors, first of internal medicine then kidney specialists. All said I had acute glomerulonephritis. I even see so called doctors of Chinese medicine, herbalists who claimed secret recipes from ancestors and, according to folk lore, ate all sorts of strange things. Still my urine had a few red blood cells when, after centrifugation, looked under microscope.

A few years ago, I learned that normal urine contains a couple of red blood cells.

Upon reading this article, I realized what I had at age 10 was urethral stone. Since I had a few bouts of kidney stones, mostly in kidney pelvis but one in a ureter 輸尿管. I also realized that the dark tea-color urine I had the next day, might be the product of blood lysis 溶血 (abrasion of kidney/bladder stone causing the oozing of blood in the lining; the red blood cells then broke down in the bladder).


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