Here's the life that happened while I was making other plans--
Mikayla is scheduled for surgery on June 7th and for a week of recovery. When the doctor said 'surgery' I actually teared up because I was so RELIEVED. I was afraid he'd say that this was just something that she would have to deal with her whole life and send me home with a 5 year prescription for antibiotics. He did say that she will have to learn how to relax her muscles so that her bladder can send signals to her brain again. Apparently, she has clenched her sphincter muscles for so many years that her brain and bladder can't send signals to each other any more. When she does go, she doesn't empty out all the way so bacteria have a party in there. First, the doctor is going to fix the reflux by reimplanting her ureter to another part of her bladder. This is a 90 minute surgery. After she recovers for a week, Kayla needs to learn how to read her body's signals again. She has to set her watch to go off every two hours so she can completely void. She has medicine to relax her bladder and muscles, too.
The life I had planned was to get the surgery done in the next couple days, let her recover for a couple more days, and whisk her away to Ohio on the 30th, where I would nurse her tenderly back to health with ice-cream and butterfly kisses.
It just wasn't in the cards.
Oh Janae! I am so sorry for Kayla! We will keep her in our prayers that all will go well. It's hard when life doesn't go how we planned it!
ReplyDeleteI sure hope that between now and the surgery she isn't in too much pain. I bet this doctor has never had a bladder infection...if he had the surgery would be planned for a week ago.
ReplyDeleteNOBODY should hurt that much in that place!!! Especially not our precious Mikayla!!! Ouch, Ouch Ouch!!! Oh, please fix it quick!!!!!
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