Piper had her Voiding Cystourethrogram and renal ultrasound today. She was not a happy camper.
We were supposed to arrive at the hospital for pre-registration at 11:30. Registration was quick and painless (although the woman was incredibly unfriendly) so I thought we were off to a good start. From registration we went on to another waiting room. Where we sat. And sat. And sat some more. Until 12:55 we sat. Addie did AMAZING! I brought along the iPod with a Veggie Tales movie and a little bowl of snacks. Piper also did good just crawling around the waiting room. Everyone thought they were both adorable!
Eventually we were called back for the ultrasound. She wasn’t a huge fan of being forced to lay down but this part was the easy part and relatively quick. They did a quick look at both kidneys and bladder and then we were done. Back to the waiting room.
Shortly after we were sent to a different waiting room to wait for the VCUG. Fortunately this was a short wait because a woman in this waiting room was watching a not very child friendly movie on BET. At that point we were sent into the x-ray room and they asked “Do you have someone else with you? Because she can’t be in the room.” Um…no. So they went to found someone that could sit with Addie during the x-rays. I didn’t realize they were doing x-rays. I was under the impression it was ultrasound otherwise I would have made arrangements for her. But she had her movie so she was all set.
Once we got Addie settled I had to change Piper into a little baby hospital gown (too cute and totally pointless). We got her laid down and they inserted the catheter and collected some urine. Her doctor had written a prescription to send some urine to the lab to double check to make sure the infection was gone. Once that was done we had to wait for the doctor before they inject the contrast material into the bladder. And we waited. And waited. And waited. It probably didn’t take THAT long but Piper was laying on the table being held down by myself and a nurse screaming her little heart out. It felt like forever. The ultrasound tech even yelled out to the other room to see if he was coming. Seriously? Could this not have been planned better? Did nobody think she might not be real happy about this whole situation and that they should be in a position to keep the ball rolling? Once he finally came in the test went quickly. They injected the material and then had to wait for her to pee which our doctor said could take between 5 and 20 minutes at this age. She was on top of things though and it took less than 2 minutes. 
And we were done. After they let me pick her up she stopped crying almost immediately and scowled at the nurses.
Before we left the ultrasound tech handed me the vial of urine “to drop off at your doctors.” After 2 1/2 hours there I didn’t have it in me to drive the 2 blocks to the doctors office, pull them both out of the car, put them both back in the car, etc. Everyone was just exhausted. In fact Piper was asleep before we pulled out of the parking lot.
This evening our doctor called to tell us the results were all normal and she isn’t at high risk bladder or kidney infections. Then he asked if they sent a sample to the lab and I told him they had sent it with me. He was puzzled by why they didn’t just send it to the lab since if I had dropped it off at their office they would have sent it back to the lab at the hospital. He said that he isn’t concerned with her still having an infection with no symptoms after being off antibiotics for a week and a half so we tossed the sample.
Long. Long. Long day. But we got good news!
