Abby Specialist Update

Hi All!

Abby had her appointment with the Pediatric Urologist specialist at the U of M yesterday and she was charmer and happy the whole time. They want to do the kidney ultrasound to make sure her kidneys are growing right and the VCUG (this is where they put in a catheter and fill her bladder and shot some contrast through the cath to see if the urine is going back up to the kidney’s they will be doing this about 3 times to try and set off the reflux). Apparently UTI’s aren’t suppose to cause fevers and she has had fevers all three times the last time she had strep throat to which is why she was running a 104 temp I am sure. The fever means bacteria are in her kidneys from the urine sitting there. She will be on the preventive antibiotic until she is at least 1. If the tests show something she will be on them until she out grows the reflux or might need surgery in the future to fix it. We are hoping she will grow out of it.

Friday Nov. 7th she is having these tests done. She seems to lay nice and still for the doctors so we will see how she does with this. She also seems to have grown a ¼ of an inch and 7 ounces since last week. They were surprised how tall she is for her age.