All Right!

Today was maybe our best hospital experience ever. Susannah had a nephrostogram at Columbia and unlike two weeks ago, our appointment actually occurred at the scheduled time. It took a little over an hour and she responded to the anesthesia very well. We spent two hours in the recovery room and were home by 1 pm -- UNHEARD of!!

What we learned from the test today is the best possible scenario we could have. It seems that swelling from the May 4 surgery has been preventing the ureters from draining as well as they should be. They did not have to insert a balloon into the tubes to stretch them or anything like that. The wires are still inside her kidneys but they are capped, which means no more bags for the meantime!! She is peeing like a normal girl and I have instructions on how to measure her urine output. She will continue to be closely monitored with sonograms. For now we are very pleased with these results.

As long as something crazy doesn't happen in the next 24 hours we are taking a trip this weekend to Maine!! We are all looking forward to a much-needed weekend with friends, sunshine, and Pabst.

Once again Grandma Moonpie is here with us and was my co-pilot at the hospital this morning. Here are a few shots of us in the recovery room.





















































When we got home, S really perked up. I think I was more tired than she was! She crawled, she played, she stuffed food in her mouth. She amazes us more and more.