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Saturday, January 4, 2014

In search of easier days

Ok here is the answers to this weeks not so fun surgery and issues. Months ago Faith went in the hospital with a raise in her creatinine even after i bumped up her fluids. We were quickly admitted and told it was most likely rejection since she was running fevers and her labs were showing it to be that. Well to find out it was a very serious UTI that had got up into her kidney and caused some damage, but don't think I've ever been so happy to here of infection. A test was done and found out that her bladder was refluxing up into her kidney when she peed (not her ureter, or a muscle she is used to using). A procedure was then scheduled to try to fix it (one of three choices, and deflux surgery being the least invasive). Then about a month ago she started running dangerously high temps and stopped eating and drinking(not like her), and again a UTI along with some other virus. Luckily this one wasn't to her kidney so the procedure was quickly bumped up to this last Thursday. In the scheme of things it wasn't as major surgery as the rest of the many she has had but still risky, and sedation (which i hate). The plan was to put a material that kind of made a speed bump for the urine not to get up into the kidney, and to put a stint in until the deflux medicine settled since the chance of obstruction is quite high. Well with the angle they were unable to put a stint in and they tried everything they could to. So now we wait for labs in the coming days to show if the procedure worked. If not, full open surgery will have to be done, which they don't want to do on her because of all the scar tissue and other issues that go along with such an invasive surgery. So in other words I'm trying to stay positive and not think about it, but still know we are not totally in the clear. That brings us to current. I am laying with her in my bed now since she wouldn't let me put her down to nap, one thing not like her. Then she is still screaming everytime she barely pees, which they said would be like that for the first few times she peed but we are now two days out, so second not like her. And thirdly and most un nerving she is now running a temperature. I'm going to let her rest and see how she is when wakes and make the call to the doctors. So please pray as i am for her

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