Paiton Update

Paiton had an appointment today to do a recheck of her urinary infection. Her doctor said that she needs to have an ultrasound to check her bladder and ureters. They want to make sure that there is nothing wrong with the valves and that she isn't having reflux which can cause infections. Dr. Zieba said there is a 1/3 chance that she will have it, which means a 2/3 chance she won't. If she does have it there are 5 levels of severity, levels 1-3 the child usually outgrows. She would just have to be on antibiotics for about a year to prevent any infections and then would have to have another ultrasound at the end of that time to see if it has corrected itself. Levels 4 and 5 usually require surgery, but are very rare.
The doctor didn't do a catheter urine test today as she was going to because Paiton will have to have another one on when they do the test. She said it was too invasive and unnecessary trauma since she will be having another soon so luckily we got to skip that today.
So hopefully she will not have a problem at all, but if we don't check and she does have it, it can cause bad damage to her kidneys. So of course we'll check!
This poor girl, I tell ya! Please keep her in your thoughts! Our appointment is Wednesday morning at 10 am and of course we're hoping it's all fine!