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We have just received feedback / second opinion from 2 nephrologists from London on Baby C’s condition. One of the surgeons said to go ahead with the partial nephrectomy surgery. The second surgeon’s advise is to get another scan done on the right kidney before deciding to remove the upper pole of the right kidney…
Baby C’s pee started to smell foul again yesterday. I had expected this to happen coz her UTI attacks is a monthly affair. Today being a Sunday, we had to pay the lab staff of a private hospital double the charges for a urine FEME test to be carried out on baby’s pee. The WBC (white blood…
The urine culture results (for urine collected on Thursday last week) came out today. There is a mixed growth of bacteria in the pee and the colony count reading is <5,000. Whenever I get this kind of reading, our doctors would normally tell me that this reading means that the pee was most likely contaminated…
Today I collected Baby C’s pee for tests again. The last test done was about 2 weeks ago. The WBC today is 3-4. I know this isn’t a good sign, though the reading is insignificant. The fashion in Baby C’s UTI occurance is that it will come about 4-6 weeks after the last attack. Her last…
Hubby and I have decided that the surgery takes place later this month. My main concern of not wanting the surgery to take place so soon is because Baby C is having a mild runny nose now. I think it’s always good to go for a surgery when your immune system is strong. Moreover, I am…
We met our pediatric surgeon today. After looking at the MCUG and IVP films, our surgeon concludes that a surgery is definite. The surgery is called a partial nephrectomy. Our surgeon explained to us that Baby C has 2 problems. The first problem – Baby C has a Duplex System on her right kidney. There…
Today is the day that Baby C did the IVP and MCUG procedures at the hospital. We spent almost the whole day at the hospital and it was a day of non-stop yelling, wailing and bawling for poor baby. After feeding her the sedation meds the moment we reached the hospital, I nursed her and…
We had an appointment with our pediatric nephrologist at SJMC today. I woke up early today, skipped my jogging/gym, got my 2 older gals ready for school by 8:15am and then woke baby up. I had to feed her lots of fluid so that she has enough pee for me to collect. I separated the collection of…
Our pediatric nephrologist has told us to postpone the IVP and MCUG scheduled to be carried out on Baby C tomorrow (Monday) as she has an infection going on in her urinary tract. We have another appointment with our nephrologist scheduled for Wednesday next week and we’ll see what happens next.
It’s really sad that I have to post this again. This post seems to appear in my blogs every month. Yesterday, we were at the ER of SJMC the whole night and only left at 11ish pm. Baby C’s pee has been smelling foul on and off for the past 1.5 weeks but our doctor…