OT Rocket Surgery Options

[r_towle]

So my son Abel (Rocket) has what is called a horseshoe kidney.
It's one kidney versus two.

Well his right side is the size of a normal kidney, a large golf ball.
His left size was the size of a watermelon, not kidding.

He is 24 so he has never had a cat scan or anything like that, so no one ever saw this.

As he started loosing lots of weight, started complaining more about different left side pain, they finally took a look....

So yesterday he had them reconstruct it, merge a bunch of clogged drain tubes into one large tube going to the bladder and then...get this.
They drained 750 ML of fluid out on the table, and there was another quart and a half in his bag when I got there a few hours later.

Kids been walking around with 3 or 4 quarts of processed piss in his kidney...talk about having the urge to pee....geez

So he is in the hospital, surgery went well, he is hooked up and draining from both a catheter and an external tube.
doctor had never seen this before...

This was crushing his intestines, his leg muscles, his leg nerve pack, his main artery to his leg.....all left side stuff that made him walk funny for years.

Hopefully, things will be much better for him overall.
He is however in a lot of pain, and bored silly, while on pain meds also.

We hope to get him released Sunday.

Rich

[r_towle]

Hey guys, this is rocket, I'm alive and well.
I have had three knee surgieries, along with a reconstructive jaw surgery, and let me tell you, this hurt exponentially worse than all of them.
One thing I can say I have gained from this whole experience is that I know longer have any dignity or shame in a hospital anymore. After have all sorts of people poke and prod me and stick things in places that should only be used for evacuation. Over all with was a very degrading experience. But I am very glad that they were so thorough with the diagnostic procedures and figured out exactly what was wrong before they cut me open. Medical marvels today are just amazing.

Thanks everyone for the thoughts and prayers,

-Abel (rocket)