"The Doctor Is In"....the Update

Monday: Claire had a Urodynamics done, to measure the pressure in her bladder and the tone of her muscles  surrounding bladder.  This was done by inserting a catheter in her bladder and rectum.  She actually did really well and kept herself busy by sucking on a spinning light up toy.  "Our Nurse" in neurology made sure to tell the people in Urology to keep the same catheter in for ALL of the tests, but they didn't.  I didn't think it would be a big deal since she did so well with the first one, until she started inserting the second one.  Claire started screaming, so then I got mad.  I started thinking, " you were lucky with the first one, WHY did you push it!".  But, the Cath of the second one actually was too big, so she was fine with a smaller one.   For this test everything came back normal.
    Second test, with the second catheter was a VCUG.  They tech inserted contrast into her bladder to be able to see everything.  They wanted to see how long she could hold her urine, see if there was any reflux into her kidneys, and then see if she emptied her bladder out all of the way.  She started crying in pain a couple of mins after the bladder was filled with contrast, because she couldn't figure out to urinate with the catheter in, poor thing.  After squeezing some warm water on her, she figured it out really fast.  She had no reflux into the kidneys, held her urine well, but did not empty out her bladder all of the way.  They said that this might be because she's under pressure, but they didn't same much after that.  So, i'm not really sure what to make of all of that.  No worries here though.
Tuesday: Sonogram of her kidneys and bladder.  She was SO cute laying there on that huge bed getting an ultrasound of her little belly.  It took a pretty long time, and she didn't like it much.  She didn't give me much info, but again this is more of a routine check.
     Visit with Dr. Maugan's -Neurosurgeon.  Claire weighs 20lbs and is 26in long!!  BIG GIRL!  Since the doctor was so worried about us coming down, the had talked about us probably getting some imaging done on Claire's head.  Well, he talked to me for like 5 mins, asked a couple questions, and said, "well she looks good, we'll measure her head again in 6 weeks, and then get imaging done in 3 months".  WHAT DOC?!!  Why couldn't we have done this over the phone!?  They also measured her head at 45cm, not 46...like we had measured.  Dumb sewing  measuring tape.  Remind me not to use that again.  ha!  Soooo...we traveled here with out Paul for nothing!  GR!  Oh well!  It's better to get good news and be down here for "no reason", than to get bad news.  Plus, who knows what God worked in that small amount of time.  We continue to be blessed!  Thank you all for the continued prayers!