Schleping

Going to keep schleping these notes. Gonna tell the rest of the story of Z and worry about my week later. Its not a full detailed story it is a gonzon megillah.

After the third ulta sound mr happy, the new gyn with the funny tasmanian devil ties etc had the wife convinced there was a serious problem. Now these doctors I tell you are never wrong and never change their story.UM is the best too. The longer they look at ultrasounds the worse it is. Also when more specialist are called in to check what the radiolists wants to see its bad.

At twenty weeks all I knew it was a problem not with his kidney it was in the kidney area. We met a Jewish specialist at 30+ weeks. He said there is nothing you can do wait until he is born. He said he doesn't trust the hospital he keeps his chart with him wherever he goes. My memory is kinda fuzzy. I can't recall when it went from kidney area to something else. She keeps me in the dark. He was born, the specialist showed up and ultra sounded him too. Now it kills me when did I know? He had what is called dilated mega uretor. In layman terms the organ connecting the bladder to the kidney was clogged. Thus he was at constant risk for infection urinary tract infection. Stale urine gets infected in 30 minutes. How many years ago would this have gone undetected. He was completely normal. This couldve happened to me or my brother.

The specialist in pediatric urology met with us as a family. Z was 4 months olds. In Sept of 2001 he had a bris here in our house. Later the next month the moule was on TV for drinking and driving. He is back in business.

The ped urologigt was very young and Korean. He tried to play it like he very experienced. He had seen this before in Boston. His patient was under the age old wait and see. The condition was undected until the child was 4. Then I waited for the shoe to drop. What happened. Oh we had to fix it. ER situation. Oh wow. So you waited 4 months for Z and you say lets fix this now. You see it took us 4 months to get in to see him. Of course they claim it wasn't so bad so we could wait. Now he says lets fix it not asap, no almost asap. Lets shoot for next two months. Dr Park was again inexperienced. It turns out surgeory couldn't schedule until he was 7 months old. Thats ok he is over 6 months and that is what we planned all along. Yeah right I said. You see you don't want to spill more than a teaspoon of blood in an infant he told me. I said ok whatever. They could have done this surgery invitro, at birth at 2 months, 4 months or even 5 or 6 months. Why wait.

Then I noticed he looked funny. Z had I suspected a hernia. I said Dr Park please check this out. 4 or 5 hours later he was repaired and had a double hernia repaired too. I had to find this out not any doctor. My wife was a basket case. My ganster was starting school and a proud big sister. He had two more surgeries over the next 5 months and we got a second opinion in Cleveland. Dr Parks is the best and my wife had him fully trained by this point. My opinion is the science in all this the protocol, the sheet that says if this do this if that do surgery, oh its not so bad lets wait and see, the sheet was getting rewritten. And Dr Parks was rewritting it with two whole cases to go on. Don't get me wrong he is a master pediatric urological surgeon. If your penis has a whole not lined up, he can fix it. Siamese twins being separated in a 24+ operation, he is there with a team of 12 to do the urological part. The way he says the meat of the kidney so fast in a korean accent with such authority. I thank Hashem my wife dragged me to every appointment so together we could go over what we heard. She can't hear the bad news alone. No one is expected to do that I guess. Sorry I gotta go to bed.