Elise Medical Update

Since April Elise has had recurring bladder infections. I think we've been to the clinic about once a week since April. The admissions clerk knows us by name. Last week I took her in and they did an ultrasound and x-ray of her kidneys, bladder and urinary tract to see if there is something that is not working right. They found that she has a kidney stone. The kidney stone may or may not be causing the bladder infections. It could be causing a blockage which leads to the urine getting backed up and that leads to infection. Or, the kidney stone and bladder infections could be unrelated. Regardless, the first thing to be done is deal with the kidney stone. The first step in doing that is to find out what caused it. To do that, we collected all of Elise's urine for 24 hours (many thanks to our daycare provider, Nicole, who aided in that process) and during that same 24 hour period Elise had her blood drawn (a terrible experience...it took two nurses and myself to hold her down while and third nurse drew the blood). To find out what caused the kidney stone, they will test the blood and urine for lots of different levels of things, then compare the levels of those things in her blood to those in her urine and that is supposed to tell them what is causing the stone to develop. I'm hoping we will know something by Friday!