Just thought that I would give you an update on Mary Jo's kidney stones. She had a lithotripsy procedure on Tuesday the 24th to fragment the kidney stones. A stent was placed in her urethra to help pass the fragments of the kidney stones. She was supposed to capture the frangments. But, she never really saw any since the procedure. Today, when she went to the urologist we found out why.
The doctor is baffled. The lithotripsy had no effect on the two orbs that the doctor thought were kidney stones in the utethra. They have moved some, but no change in size.
He is thinking that they are not actually in the urethra, but something on a blood vessel next to the urethra. The only way to know for sure is to run a scope up there. We will be going back to the OR to do that on Monday. So, she still has the stent until then.
In hindsight, I thought that it was odd that she would have two kidney stones in the urethra. She had no pain or discomfort before she went to the doctor after whatever or wherever they are became larger when the post-transplant scan was compared to the one done before the transplant by the hematology people here and at Vanderbilt.
Hopefully, they will get to the bottom of it on Monday. Whatever it is, it's not cancerous because the PET scan would have picked that up.
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