Appointment Updates

We are back from our Birmingham trip. Sophie had a busy two days of doctors. She is going to have surgery Dec 2. We met with Dr. Joseph today and confirmed that the right kidney does not have any function and it is backing up with urine. They catherized her today so they could run die through her bladder and take an xray. They collected 750cc of urine. I was amazed!!! And so was everyone else!! Her right kidney and ureter are extremely large and this is causing her belly to look so large and feel so hard. This is pushing on her bladder and her left kidney causing other problems as well. He said the only way to fix this problem is to remove the kidney. We scheduled the first available appointment. In the meantime, we will be checking on the heart murmur that the doctors at the International Adoption Clinic found. They will not put her to sleep until this is seen about. While at the IAC, they had to stick her in both arms to draw blood because her tiny little veins roll. They took eight different vials of blood. My poor baby!!!! It was a great time of bonding for us though, she allowed me and Ricky to comfort her and that is a very good sign that she is progressing in a positive way. She was ready to see her GeGe though!!!!!