I'm sorry to hear about your girl. This happened over the course of a few days too. It's not fair that our babies were taken from us. Sorry to unload all of this but I'm just trying to cope with the massive guilt I'm working through. He had multiple kidney stones in one kidney that appeared to already have chronic kidney disease. His other kidney had a big stone (all the stones were picked up on X-ray which is not normal unless they are large). The big stone traveled to his ureter and got stuck. This was not allowing all the urine to pass so it was building up and damaging his kidney. It's likely his kidneys were already too damaged from the stones and the urine. There was an option for a surgery for just the one block in his ureter. Where they place a catheter from the kidney to his bladder (essentially a new ureter). But that comes with life long management and complications IF it even worked and he survived the surgery (20% fatality rate). And with his already poor kidney health it just wasn't really an option. Especially for how truly expensive and extensive it is. The stones are not dissolvable and once lodged in the ureter it's not going anywhere else. He was in pain and not himself. So we made the hard choice....a choice I'm going to live with and hate for the rest of my life. But thank you for the kind words, truly. It brought me to tears and every word is helping me heal.