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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's too earldly truly for what it's too early for this?
- 0:05Speaker 2: Lisa, What is stuck in your crawl this morning? Nothing
- 0:08Speaker 2: stuck in my crawl. I just want to share this
- 0:10Speaker 2: story about that. This is, you know, too early for
- 0:12Speaker 2: this guy stuck in his then kidney, well was stuck.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Kidney stones and bladistones are never fun, right, No, but
- 0:21Speaker 2: sair special thought for this chap. Doctors in Sri Lanka
- 0:26Speaker 2: have just removed a bladderstone weighing nelly.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Seven pounds seven that's more than three kilos half a stone.
- 0:36Speaker 1: In fact, they believe it has set a new world record.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Oh woo beee, I grew a stone that set a record.
- 0:42Speaker 1: The fifty five year old man originally arrived at the
- 0:44Speaker 1: hospital after suffering a stroke, but medical staff soon realized
- 0:47Speaker 1: he was also having trouble urinating.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Betty was I think you wouldn't sit around? Would have
- 0:52Speaker 2: been a problem? Wouldn't have urinated since nineteen eighty two?
- 0:55Speaker 1: No.
- 0:56Speaker 2: During their examination, they found the bladdistone roughly the size
- 0:59Speaker 2: of a new born baby is how they described it.
- 1:02Speaker 1: Roughly the size of a newborn baby, Doctor Chip, Thank you,
- 1:09Speaker 1: Doctor Prahalan Balakrishnan, led the surgery and said, oh, this
- 1:13Speaker 1: is the largest bladderstone I've ever documented and removed through
- 1:17Speaker 1: a surgical procedure.
- 1:18Speaker 3: This is going to have to come out.
- 1:19Speaker 2: He was more excited than the guy that had it
- 1:21Speaker 2: in him. Balachrishtnan added that the massive stone could have
- 1:24Speaker 2: been growing inside this guy's bladder for up to ten years.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Doctors say the man is now in very good health,
- 1:31Speaker 2: hasn't felt this good in ten years, and happy to
- 1:33Speaker 2: step on the scales.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Yes, anohing like losing half a stone with a stone,
- 1:40Speaker 3: and he's and he's also recovering very well from everything
- 1:43Speaker 3: else that you know, the stroke and.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Heart attack. He found out that he had a seven
- 1:49Speaker 2: pound bladistone, you know that's been growing for ten years.
- 1:53Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the case, if it's too
- 1:55Speaker 2: early for this or that was too late. It was
- 1:57Speaker 2: well yeah, well it was never coming out of the
- 2:00Speaker 2: really throat.
- 2:02Speaker 3: It just couldn't have just winced a little.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Just coming out of there with his teeth, and God.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Would look like you know where a snake eats a
- 2:11Speaker 1: small coach and that's tried to digest it.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I got it halfway and then it got stuck. Doctor
- 2:20Speaker 2: I don't mean to laugh, but he can't hear. It's
- 2:22Speaker 2: his intr.
- 2:22Speaker 1: No, that's exactly right, and he doesn't care anymore anyway
- 2:25Speaker 1: now because it's out and he's happy and he's lighter.