Today Grady had an appointment with the pediatric urologist to follow up on his ultrasound last week. Some pretty good news. The upper kidney that had turned into scar tissue as of the last ultrasound has now completely disappeared - which means no second surgery to remove the upper kidney since Grady's body took care of that for him.
We will go back in 6 months for another ultrasound and VCUG. This will tell us whether anything has changed in terms of how well the kidneys are functioning, and will tell us the degree of reflux he has. As of the last VCUG, it was level 5 (the worst).
It sounds like at some point after that, but within the next year, he will have to have surgery to reconstruct the bladder and push the ureters further into the bladder. This will hopefully get rid of the reflux and will allow us to finally get him off the antibiotics.
So the good news is only one surgery instead of two. The bad news is there's still one surgery and we have to continue him on the antibiotics for a bit longer. But given the near zero percent chance of Grady not having to have any surgery, we are pretty pleased.
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