Shortly after restarting the dialysis yesterday, Max's scrotum swelled up again so they ordered another ultrasound to see if anything would show up this time. Again, the radiologist did not see a hernia or a hyrdocele so he feels that it is nothing that would require surgical repair. That is the positive, the negative is that we still have no idea what it is. The radiologist did say that the fluid is not in the scrotum itself, but in the tissue surrounding the scrotum. So, they did a blood test this morning to see if a particular level is low that would result in the tissue absorbing the fluid, but they didn't have the results back when I called to check on him today. They don't think that this is it due to the fact that he isn't swollen anywhere else on his body, but why not go ahead and rule it out I guess.
Leave it to Max to keep EVERYONE guessing on what is going on with him. It seems that everytime something goes wrong, it takes a week for the doctors to figure out what it is or it goes away and we never know what it was. It's so frustrating.
I'll keep you all posted as I get knew information.
3 comments:
Thinking of you guys. Please Max get better!! You won the award for most puzzling patient, cutest patient, flirtatious patient, smiley patient. You don't need to win for longest patient.
I am sooo sorry that you are going through this! Max is a fighter though and he will get to come home! Keep your head high and I will continue to pray for you!
I can't begin to imagine how frustrating this continual teeter-totter of emotions/sucess-failures must be.
On the surface you have a perfectly beautiful, thriving, happy baby, which makes things doubly tough when these setbacks arise.
In the grand scheme of things, regardless of how long the hospital stay becomes, it will be just a short chapter in Max's life story.
Soon enough you will have him home healthy enough to begin the next chapter. For your sakes, much more than his, we all hope that day comes soon!
Dave Schabell
BBHS
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