Yesterday was a long day! As many of you will remember, Kaden had a Urinary Tract Infection while he was in Korea. The hospital there did a DMSA scan and found a large cortiol defect in his left kidney. They recommended that we do a follow-up scan once he was settled here in the United States.
So, yesterday we left town at 5:00 a.m. We got to the hospital at 7:00 and got Kaden settled into his room. At first he had a great time playing with the toys, being weighed and measured, etc. But then he had to get an IV. That was no fun at all. It was even hard on Mommy & Daddy! Once that trauma was over, he settled down and was content to be carried up and down the hallways of the pediatric corridor until he got hungry. The poor little guy had to let the dye they injected circulate his body for 2 hours before being sedated, and he could not have anything to eat or drink.
At 10:30, they took us downstairs and Kaden was sedated. That was hard too. His eyes rolled into the back of his head and it was terrifying for Mommy & Daddy. They did the scan, and by 11:45 we were back in his room. We won't know the results of the scan for a couple of days, but to our naked eyes, it looked like both kidneys were fine! At 12:30, Kaden woke up, took 4 oz. of pedialyte and a 6 oz. bottle of formula, had his IV removed, and we were on our way home by 1:30. He slept all the way home, was up for 3 hours (and took 4 oz. of formula every hour!), and then slept the rest of the day/night until 5:00 this morning!
We hope he will quickly adjust back to his normal schedule and will forget the trauma of the day. Please pray with us that the scan will not show another defect. The pediatric urologist thinks there is nothing to worry about and ordered the DMSA scan to appease Korea's requirements for our adoption.
UPDATE on 11/30: We got the results of Kaden's scan - he's a perfectly healthy little boy!
