Kidney Walk 2007

Always on the holiday’s.  On July 3rd at 11pm, Zachary was having really bad belly pain so off to the U of M hospital.  Zachary had a VCUG done a couple of days prior, with a return visit the next day for emergency surgery to fix a collapsed urethra.  So with his bad belly pain we thought it would be best to head to the hospital.  After a long night and lots of pain and vomiting. The doctors discovered that Zachary had 4 areas of the bowel that were obstructed by adhesions from all for the surgery that has had. Four days later we returned home on a new medication, to make his daily med now up to 14!!!!  Before his transplant Zachary was on 21 meds daily so 14 seem quite manageable.  Zachary has a bladder study on August 4, at the U of M.  He has been having trouble with going potty for about a year now.  He can hold 700cc in his bladder at one time, normal is 200 at one time.  We pray that the doctor’s can figure out how to fix the problem, so the kidney doesn’t get damage anymore. Two summers ago Zachary’s lab counts were jumping around alot. They performed a biopsy that told us that he was going into chronic kidney failure again.  My main concern is to protect that new kidney.