What is this?

What in the world are these?


One (well hopefully only one) of these is inside my husband. So what is it? These are kidney stones!!!! Let me just tell you that everything anyone has told me about these are like men giving birth. Yes woman can have them too, but that is the pain that men have.
James last week Wednesday was on the floor rolling in pain. It was such horrible pain that he was willing to go to the hospital emergency room. And if you know my husband he does not go to doctors, take medicine let alone even say "I need to go to the Emergency room." The pain started in his back kidney area and traveled to the front side.
We get to the emergency room and after being there for 15 minutes or so they were finishing paper work so he could be taken to the back, but the pain had gone away and so he decided to leave. I asked him if he was sure about that and he said yes.
We were half way home when the pain came back with a vengeance. Instead of heading back to the hospital we headed to the Urgent Care. We were quickly taken to a room (they weren't busy) and got vitals and then he had to give a urine sample. It came back positive for blood. The physician came and told us that men don't have a lot going on inside on their left side and with the blood in the urine it was more than likely kidney stones. James asked since the pain was like child birth if he could have an epidermal. The doctor had a good laugh. He did however give James a shot in the butt of pain med and sent us on our way with a prescription for more pain med and something else to help.
The next few days he was nauseated and throwing up and with the pain meds he was sleeping constantly. ?He now is doing better with the pain but, its been over a week and he still has them in him.
My mom gave us a suggestion that she found from people she trusted that said if he drank 1 liter of sauerkraut juice, 1 liter of tomato juice, 10 drops of lemon oil, and 10 drops of peppermint oil in the space of two days that within another 2 days after so doing that he would pass the stones. Well he sort of did one day and then decided to stop. Now I don't know if it works or not but he was having more pain after the first day when he was going to the bathroom, which I take as a sign that things were moving.
However long it takes I think it was a good thing that he got this while we was out of a job and hopefully he will pass them soon, so it doesn't affect with his new job.