Health update.

My Dr FINALLY referred me to a urologist, after a YEAR of having 4-8 UTI's a MONTH.

They did a CT Scan, X-ray, blood and urine work.

I have liver and bladder damage, they aren't sure if my liver will make it past my 30th birthday [I JUST turned 20 this past Sunday (17th)], I will forever be on an antibiotic to sterilize my urine and bladder to help it last longer and stay clean.

I had the IV contrast for my CT scan, and the chick had the rubber band on my arm for about FIFTEEN minutes! My veins are CRAZY valve-y, so she couldn't find a spot. Before she even put the band on my arm I told her which vein to use and she said no, she didn't like that one. Then she ended up using that vein after I had already lost feeling in my hand and arm.


On my birthday, we found out that Gabe has pneumonia, so he's on antibiotics and an inhaler. He's doing soo much better now, still hackin' and gaggin' though but he has his energy back, and he's not so irritable anymore.

He's doing SO awesome with the aerochamber, too!

I'm glad they're finally doing something about it but you should probably consider suing for malpractice if your doctor let you get that damaged before referring you to a urologist, in fact considering the level of damage you're describing you should be seeing a nephrologist and possibly a hematologist as well. Especially since it's impossible for you to have actually had 4-8 infections a month, that would be a new infection every 4-7 days, not even enough time for an antibiotic to have run it's course; therefore it's way more likely that it was one continuous infection that never really got cleared up.

Quoting A, E & W's mommy:" I'm glad they're finally doing something about it but you should probably consider suing for malpractice ... [snip!] ... to have run it's course; therefore it's way more likely that it was one continuous infection that never really got cleared up."

It cleared up after a couple days, I've had multiple of them monitored. They are multiple frequent separate infections, instead of one long one, and very much so possible.