re: stone in the ureter lymphocytic leukemia

I have been diagnised with lymphocytic leukemia 1 year ago. Now I was told that I need an emergency operation to remove a 8mm stone from the upper part of ureter. Please advise me what to do? Thank you.

[Mochadelicious]

Did your doctor say if the stone is somehow associated with the leukemia or is it a completely seperate thing?  I ask because last year I was diagnosed with lymphoma and several years ago I had to have a very large stone (5-6 cm...yes, I said cm) removed from my kidney.  They called it a staghorn calculus.  I'm curious to know if this is a related thing.  

I had a proceedure called a percutaneous nephrostoloithotomy.  They basically put me to sleep, then inserted a device that uses radio waves to break up the stone.  Then they used a vacuum type device to suck out the pieces.  I don't know if they will do this same type of proceedure on you since yours is in the ureter, but it took several weeks of recovery.  

I wish you luck on your surgery.