Yesterday Elliot went in for his cystourethrogram to test whether there was any reflux of urine going from his bladder to his kidneys which is what the doctors suspected caused his initial UTI travelling into the kidneys and thus his blood stream. Little Elliot was strapped down to a contraption which resembled a rotisserie. Then he was covered from the chest down with a little hole for his willy to poke out. If only I had my camera with me; it was so funny-looking and would have been excellent blackmail material for when Elliot was a teenager. Then they put a little catheter up his penis and filled his bladder with liquid containing a contrast agent and we all sat back and waited for him to pee as the radiologist took pictures of his bladder. Surprisingly, Elliot didn't seem to mind any of this.
When he finally started to wee, we were all elated to see that there is no reflux whatsoever. None! We still need to wait for our appointment with his doctor, but this is such great news! Now little Elliot won't need to have surgery and it's likely we'll be able to take him off the antibiotics soon. You can't imagine our relief to take one more step closer to having this whole mess behind us.
(You might be wondering if there is no reflux, then how did the E Coli buggies get into his bloodstream. It is quite common for little newborns to have some reflux that corrects itself in the first weeks/months of life and this is what I suspect happened with Ellie. We'll see if the doctors concur with my theory.)
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