Same Story

We had labs yesterday. We sent a urine because it's on the lab form but Dr. M's nurse had said that it would be a pointless culture because she would still be covered by antibiotics. The nephrology secretary called today and said that Dr. M had seen our labs and that we needed to come in on Monday for labs at the hospital and then to see Dr. M. Obviously we were concerned about what was happening, and she didn't have any info. Dr. M finally called us back this evening and said that Katie's urine has bacteria and white blood cells (two indications of infection) and her creatinine has gone up to 1.3 (which I think is due to dehydration) and her prograf level was 11.8 which is high as well. So she wants to see her, but I'm not sure exactly why. The worse news is that she either still has the previous infection or has a new infection and that's just awful news. It means that manually cleaning out the bladder didn't do a darn thing. And it means that they will likely start talking about taking out the native kidney sooner rather than later. Forgive me if this is a repeat of information but Dr. V, her surgeon, said this would be a substantial surgery and that he's trying to figure out in his head how to do it and still save any savable parts that he might need to use later to replace her bladder tissue.

Flashes of hope was canceled this week due to weather. We'll get rescheduled the next time they come to UMMC which will be in March.