Doctor Day

Yesterday was a day full of tests and doctor visits.

We started the morning with Caden getting a bag taped to him so that the nurses could get a urine sample. Holly thought that they were going to put a catheter in to get the urine sample. She said that is what they did last time.

We then went to Radiology so that they could do an ultrasound of Caden's kidneys. (If you don't remember, when Caden was readmitted to the hospital, it was because he had a Urinary Tract Infection. He had some extra valves that weren't allowing him to urinate properly, so he had backflow into his left kidney. He is on amoxicillin so that it does not damage his kidneys.)

Caden was such a trooper. When the technician was doing the ultrasound on his right kidney, he didn't fuss at all. When she was doing the ultrasound on his left kidney, he didn't fuss until she was almost done. Then we had to put him on his tummy so that she could see them from the back. He did great at first, then he started to get a little fussy. He did a great job. The technician left the room to let the radiologist look at the ultrasound pictures and numbers. When she came back, she said that it looked the right kidney had grown, but the left kidney was unchanged.

The next trip was to get the bag removed. But, this was only if he had went potty since it was put on. It looked to be as though he had when we were in radiology. When the nurse took the bag off, he had went. But either most of it had leaked out, or as I have just thought, it may have been pushed out when we were moving him around during the ultrasound. The nurse decided to ask to see if the little amount that was in the bag would be enough. We were in luck, it was.

We now had to go to the lab so that they could draw some blood. Obviously we weren't looking forward to this, but we knew that Caden had done this before and that it shouldn't be to bad. When we got in there, they said the blood needed to come from his arm. Now we were worried at how he would handle this. As soon as the nurse held his arm down he started to cry. He knew they were going to do something that he wasn't going to like. He is so smart.

After this, we had a break before his clinical visit. So, we decided to visit daddy's work and grandma Debbie's work. And as usual, everybody loved him. When we stepped into daddy's department, we got about two feet in before we had a mob of people around. Everybody said that he is getting so big and that he is so cute.




To be continued...