So after one lasix kidney scan, a trip to the emergency room, a CT scan, more blood work than I can count, a nephrostomy tube, and a nephrostogram (makes me think a doctor should sing while performing this procedure!) they have figured out what the problem is!!! I have a blockage where my ureter goes in to my new bladder. Apparently this can happen when scar tissue forms after they sew it all together.
So in a few weeks I will be going in for what I call the "roto-rooter" surgery. They are going to go in through my kidney, down through the ureter and cut some of the blockage out!!! So happy to know what it is now, and it isn't cancer. Plus this explains why I had been having frequent urinary tract infections, because the urine was trapped in there too long. No more antibiotics for me!!!
I am so relieved..thanks everyone for being behind me for this.
Oh, and I was almost done paying off my doctor bills from my original surgery, only had 3 payments to go!! Well I guess its better than being dead, just have to keep paying on them forever :)
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