Adventures in Urology

Renal ultrasound

Wednesday Anara had her annual appointment at Riley with her pediatric urologist. We were expecting a routine check-up, clean bill of health, and another year between appointments. Unfortunately, Anara has formed several stones in her bladder (conduit urinary reservoir) and will require a procedure to remove them. The procedure should be simple provided her urologist can break the stones with a laser and remove them through her stoma.

After a few years with no stones, this was disappointing. For some reason she is still colonizing stone forming bacteria. This will be Anara's 14th time under general anesthesia. She is a pretty tough kid and such a great patient. She spent almost 2 hours on the procedure table during her cystoscopy while her doctor tried to remove the stones at her visit and never complained. Unfortunately they were too big to remove without risking compromising her stoma (appendicovesicostomy).

Cystoscopy

Adoption news:  We received notification that our I800A has been received by immigration and is being sent to the National Benefit Center for processing. We will then receive a finger printing appt. and after that hopefully an approval notice. With Anara's adoption, this process took 2 months.  

Our social worker reviewed our dossier and sent back a list of questions for us to answer. I answered these questions yesterday and submitted them to our social worker here who must edit, approve and sign. It will then move to our placement agency and Z's birth country.