Kidney update

Today I took Corbin in for more follow up kidney tests. The poor kid had to get another catheter. It took me and 2 other nurses to hold him down and try to keep him still. Corbin was a very, very sad boy. This has definatley been the worst test up to this point, simply because he is getting older and stronger, but he isn't old enought to understand what is going on. It was a very long 20 or so minutes that we had to hold him down while he was screaming, crying, and trying to squirm away. They injected Corbin with dye and then took xrays to see if the fluid was still refluxing back up from the bladder to the kidney. Corbin has two tubes coming out of his kidney instead of just one. The top tube showed no reflux, but the bottom one shows approximately the same amount of reflux that he had when the test was done a year ago.

The doctor told me that he is almost positive that surgery will be necessary. He said that if the kidney was going to repair itself, it would have been during Corbin's first year since that is when the body grows the most. The doctor likes to wait and do this surgery when the child is between the ages of two and three, so it will probably be late next year.

So. That is the latest kidney update. It is nice that we don't have to do anything for the next year (besides medicine). In some ways, I am actually kind of looking forward to the surgery. I hate that Corbin will have to go through it, but it is nice to know that his kidney will be fixed. And that he won't have to deal with more tests, medicine, and appointments for his kidney (hopefully).