catheters & shrek

we are here another night at children's mercy. owen is doing good. no crazy pain like yesterday. and here is what dr gatti (his surgeon) thinks happened. owen's bowels got back up from the surgery, pain meds, and him being scared to push because of the tube and pain. the bowels were swelling and pushing on the bladder causing a kink in the catheter so urine couldn't easily get out. urine was sitting in the bladder and going back into his kidney causing an infection and decreasing his kidney function. somehow in all that he got dehydrated?? and all that coming to ahead was causing the intense pain. so today, they were giving him iv fluids and an iv antibiotic for the infection. his kidney function has gotten better. dr gatti came in around 4:30 to remove the catheter and teach me how to re-cath him. which i will have to do at least 3 times a day for as long as its needed...could be always....thur a opening in his belly button. the kidney doctor wanted to keep him here at least one more night to see how he did after the cath was removed and after stopping the iv fluids (which they did around 7pm). also to give the urine culture more time to grow so they can see exactly what type of infection it was. hopefully all is well tomorrow and we can go home. owen is a lot happier with the catheter out and got a good amount of poop out with tonight's enema without the catheter. plus he was able to take a real bath for the first time in 2 1/2 weeks!! they are so good here, they brought him in bath toys. earlier today the transplant coordinator came in to say hi and tell me that owen is on the list for their meeting next week to talk about his transplant now that this last surgery is done with. so hopefully at his next appt in the kidney center on june 1 i may know some kind of time fame. owen and i have just chilled here today watching movie including having a shrek marathon. nick, the best husband ever, was running back and forth getting the other two where they needed to be. thank you so much ruth ann for keeping noah today!!!! tonite nicks parents have liv and noah so nick could spend the rest of the night here with us, i dont know what we would do without them. and thanks everyone else for the prayers and good thoughts.