Friday, July 18, 2008

2nd San Antonio appointment

We're back from our second San Antonio appointment for Owen's kidneys. Another icky IV and several hours waiting and here is what we know: His right ureter (the tube from the kidney to the bladder) is dilated. It has peristalsis (the action of squeezing stuff down - like in your esophagus). We'll just keep an eye on things and go back in December for a check-up on things. Meanwhile, he's to remain on antibiotics, starting a different one at 3 months.

By the way...we weighed him today. 10 pounds, 1 ounce. Holy cow. I know he can't compare to Casen or Mason...but, that's more than 3 pounds of weight gain in 6 weeks (since birth).

He makes me smile. He's started (just yesterday) occasionally smiling and cooing at me - or my Dad. Not so much Brant...but he needs more time with his working-all-the-time daddy. (did you see that? It was my face lighting up, thinking about Owen smiling and cooing. ahhhh.)

2 comments:

beautiful chaos said...

He's so precious!
I am glad things are looking up for him.

mari said...

Wow, what a trooper. He's such a sweet baby.