I have a friend who had a kidney stone floating around somewhere in the plumbing. He was in intermittent excruciating pain, so he went to his GP, then a specialist. They did a temporary surgery that shunted the pipes, and he would have to come back to get the whole thing repiped appropriately. He was told he can’t work since he could tear things and do real damage.

Pretty simple basic surgery.

8 months later he still hadn’t gotten the thing fixed. He screamed and yelled and they finally did what they should have done the first time they opened him up.

Derek