November 16

Judy had a cystogram this afternoon. They filled her bladder with a dye solution and used some type of imaging to determine what is going on with the bladder. The bladder leaked like a sieve. No fluid was retained in the bladder because there is a fissure in the bladder - a fissure that hasn't closed at all for the last 5 weeks. The abdominal drain tube called a JP was removed today. The catheter remains, but as mentioned in earlier blogs, everything from Judy's one kidney spills from the bladder and drains through the staples in Judy's backside. This means that Judy has to wear a Depends and lie on a bed pad that gets soaked with fluid and has to be changed every two hours thus Judy is not able to have prolonged periods of rest. The other kidney is drained by the nephrostomy that has been working fine for the last 5 weeks. On the other front, Judy is still plagued with nausea. Another day, another popsicle. On the home front, if you see smoke rising from our house tomorrow, it will be a result of the 5 alarm chili I am preparing for my hockey team, The Flightless Ducks. Tomorrow is my day for preparing the post game meal. We are playing the Sharks; therefore, the first course will be shark fin soup.