Kidney testing

Friday Drew was off to the children's hospital in London again to get his kidneys tested. We finally made it to the appointment after having to cancel it twice because Myah and then Drew had the chicken pox.

First Drew had to have an IV put in. The could not find a vein in his arm to try so they decided to put it on his bald little head. The first attempt failed :( They moved to the other side where the veins were now much more visible thanks to Drew's screaming fit. He did not like the IV at all. I nursed him and he settled down and fell asleep. I carried him while Jason push his IV pole along side us.

We headed down to nuclear medicine and laid Drew on a special table and he was injected with a radioactive medicine that the tech took out of a lead lined case. (That was kinda scary seeing that go into our baby) Drew didn't seem to mind at all he was still sleeping. The tech put a lead lined blanket on him, gave him a medicine called Lasik to make him pee more and started the test. All the kidney pictures were taken from a camera in the table below him. He woke up after about 1/2 an hour and we kept him happy with toys and songs until the test was done, it took 1 hour. We then had to wait for 2 hours and come back for 5 more minutes of imaging to see how much the kidney drained.

The tech couldn't tell us much except that the right kidney was slow to drain but we already knew that. I told them the test results must be back asap to prepare for his heart surgery but they said they take a week. I sure they will hurry along when our cardiologist calls them. It is very important that the surgery team knows what is happening with his kidney function.

I really want to get these results to see what the problem is so we can decide what to do to correct it.