The stones removed by doctors Photo: EuroPics
The stones removed by doctors Photo: EuroPics
In the 1990’s I was flying home to CA from Tampa, FL.
We weren’t long in the air when an announcement came we were making an emergency landing in Georgia.
When the cabin attendant was in the back where I was, I said to him: ‘If the person with the emergency is alone, I would sit with him/her, if they’d like.
He did a double-take, then went forward up the aisle. A little later he was back, leaned over to me sitting next to the window and said: ‘The emergency is the PILOT!!!’
W e l l l - the co-captain flew that plane like a bullet, to Georgia. The ‘emergency’ was removed from the plane, and we took off. (Don’t know if we had a new pilot, or the co-pilot).
When we arrived in L.A., I asked personnel at the gate if they knew about the emergency on my flight. When I related what had occurred, one woman employee said, ‘ The Captain was passing a KIDNEY STONE!!!’
Good grief - the poor guy!
My brother in law has this problem. He can drop 20+ pounds in no time because of the excruciating pain.
That’s not kidney stones, that’s kidney gravel.