No more Tubes!

6/23/2010

Today's doctor visit started with a cystogram (which is when they put dye into the body so they can see it on the x-ray). Missy was very nervous with the machine over her but all in all did really well. The tech. told me that the fluid was going up into her ureter and the bottom of the right kidney. This really worried me because that is what was happening before the surgery and that is why we had the surgery in the first place. We had to wait 2 hours in order to see her doctor, so I was really stressing that full 2 hours. When we got into see her doctor he said that everything looked good and that he thought that the fluid going into the kidney's was just because of the swelling due to surgery and that it should go away with time but that he would look at everything again in 2 months to make sure. He wasn't worried at all. He then took out her last tube and showed me how to cath through her stoma. Missy was so excited to not have anymore tubes. She even told the doctor that she loved him. She is so darn cute sometimes. Made us smile. We will see how the cathing goes at home for awhile (hopefully there will be no complications). She will also be on a preventative antibiotic for about a month because when you first start putting caths in a new larger bladder it sometimes may cause infection. Anyway, so YAY! Today was a good day! We are very excited that the tubes are gone and that we don't have to drag them around anymore. At least Missy can now get around a lot easier and be a little more like herself.