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My companions were Elders Hainsworth, Racker, Marchant, Orton, Belnap, White, Zapata, Barney, Wilkins (ScottValdavieso. About half way through my mission, I started ), Castillo, Hotton, Hartzell, Chase, Dominguez, Evans, and having pain in my kidneys. We didn't have a mission nurse at the time, and I was told to drink 'Cola de Caballo'. So, I boiled weeds every day for a few months and the pain went away. I didn't know this at the time, but Guitig, that nasty seltzer water, and coca-cola gave me kidney stones(no joke). In May 1996, one of those stones cut my kidney and it stopped working. By then, we had a mission nurse and she told me to have an x-ray. That's when I found out I had a kidney stone lodged in my kidney. It was too large to pass normally and the doctors in SLC wouldn't allow the surgery to take place in Quito, so I was flown home.
I had the surgery in Las Vegas and everything went well. I asked the doctor about the procedure they wanted to do in Quito. He said their procedur |
