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<blockquote data-quote="joneshockey" data-source="post: 451997"><p>Emily has what was called stage 4 hydronephrosis (fluid around the kidneys) and a duplicated collecting system (2 uerter tubes on both the right and left side) She had surgery on her right collecting system... one of her tubes kept getting infected because of where the tube hooked up --- in a "normal" collecting system the tube would empty into the bladder... well one of Emily's tubes bypassed the bladder and was emptying into her uretha (spelling?) This is what was causing ALL of her infections is due to the fact that the hole to her tube was exposed to lots of bacteria due to it emptying into the uretha. I had her back to the urologist yesterday for a post-op appointment to remove the rubber draining tube and the dr. said that he discovered during surgery that she would've had problems with urine leakage as she got older that would've been detected once she was potty trained since that tube was emptying urine in a noncontrolled fashion (since the uretha has no muscles to hold urine in)--- I know too much information right? Hearing this yesterday made me REALLY happy that she had it done when she did before she is old enough to remember it and to save her the embaressment of having wet herself and not knowing why. I gave her a bath for the first time since surgery and she LOVED it --- I wasn't sure how she would react with still having the open wound from the tube and the terristrips still holding her incision closed... I double checked with the dr. yesterday about bathing and he encouraged full baths at this point... he said it would help heal things quicker.</p><p></p><p>Cindy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joneshockey, post: 451997"] Emily has what was called stage 4 hydronephrosis (fluid around the kidneys) and a duplicated collecting system (2 uerter tubes on both the right and left side) She had surgery on her right collecting system... one of her tubes kept getting infected because of where the tube hooked up --- in a "normal" collecting system the tube would empty into the bladder... well one of Emily's tubes bypassed the bladder and was emptying into her uretha (spelling?) This is what was causing ALL of her infections is due to the fact that the hole to her tube was exposed to lots of bacteria due to it emptying into the uretha. I had her back to the urologist yesterday for a post-op appointment to remove the rubber draining tube and the dr. said that he discovered during surgery that she would've had problems with urine leakage as she got older that would've been detected once she was potty trained since that tube was emptying urine in a noncontrolled fashion (since the uretha has no muscles to hold urine in)--- I know too much information right? Hearing this yesterday made me REALLY happy that she had it done when she did before she is old enough to remember it and to save her the embaressment of having wet herself and not knowing why. I gave her a bath for the first time since surgery and she LOVED it --- I wasn't sure how she would react with still having the open wound from the tube and the terristrips still holding her incision closed... I double checked with the dr. yesterday about bathing and he encouraged full baths at this point... he said it would help heal things quicker. Cindy [/QUOTE]
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