aarrgghh!

What am I doing to you people?!? No posts again!!

So Ansley went to have her VCUG and Renal Scan done on Friday 6/12 and it was hard.....I have a picture of her IV but it is on my cell phone so I will have to figure out how to get it to here.

So the short story is that the tests showed that her urinary tract reflux is not any better (don't know if it is worse); it is rated on a scale of 1-5 and she is a 3.

For the renal scan they had to put a small amount of radioactive material into her body and then take pictures for 1 hour. Due to the need for her to be entirely still during the procedure, they had to put her to sleep. I have read of this procedure being done with the child awake and I can say that I was glad she was under for it.

The pediatrician called yesterday with the results and basically said that she is not getting any better, meaning she is not growing out of it, and that we need to go see a pediatric urologist. The reflux is only on her left side but it is causing scarring on her left kidney and her left kidney is now smaller than her right kidney, so we need to get it checked out by the urologist. So we have a call into the urologist and are waiting to schedule an appointment once they have all of the information they need.

We hope to hear something soon.....

On a good note, the urologist we are going to see has developed a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure for urinary tract reflux that is successful in treating 90% of the cases where it is used, so we are optimistic.

We also know that Ansley will most likely be put on prophylactic antibiotics to help prevent future urinary tract infections.

Anywho, that is all the news that is fit to print....we are headed to Florida for a few days of rest & relaxation & Austin's 3rd birthday, and our cousin Amanda's wedding, and Father's Day......so we will be getting some sun!!

Have a great weekend and I promise beach pics!!!