urologist

We had Payton's appointment with the urologist yesterday.. It went well, kinda how I had a feeling it would go. He showed us the x-rays from the VCUG that she had in the hospital back in Dec. It was nice to be able to see what was going on (wrong) in her little body. There are 5 stages that they go by in kidney reflux, 1 being not so bad, 5 being the worst. He explained how they figured that out... meaning how swollen the ureters are, and how far it goes up into the kidneys. Payton is at a 4. Her ureters are pretty swollen and the urine does go up into her kidneys. There is a valvey type thing that in a normal person, opens and closes on its own and lets urine pass through to go down to the bladder. In Paytons case, the valve dont work, so it goes back up into her kidneys.

I shared this awhile back while we were in the hospital with her, but just so you know what im talking about, I'll show ya again. Paytons insides are like the red arrows.

When you get to stage 4 and 5, It us un- common that it heals itself and it more than likely will need surgery to correct it. They do not like doing it on children until they are at least a year so basically what he wants us to do is wait until this December, which will be a year from when she was hospitalized and they will do another VCUG test on her and see if it has healed itself at all, or if they have gotten worse, or if its just the same. Of course if its the same, or worse, they will schedule her for surgery from there. She will be on a small dose of antibiotics until Dec. to keep infection away. If infection does break through the antibiotics, that would more than likely be cause for surgery sooner than a year.

Soooo what this means is that every single person that will read this has to pray, pray and pray some more that God would heal her little body and that when we go back in Dec., she will have perfectly, normal, beautiful ureters!!!!!! So from now till Dec. 16 thats what we will do, and we would greatly appreciate it from you too!!