Busy Day

So we had a busy day today. We got up around 5, after a night with both girls up for the majority of it, and took Ry up to Cooks Children's Hospital for her tubes in her ears. Everything went great, but we found out she had a pretty bad infection in her left ear. Go figure. That would explain why she didn't sleep the night before. She must have such a high pain tolerance! The doctor said she probably had it for a while! They cleared out all the fluid and got the tubes put in. It was so fast. We sat down and not 5 minutes later the doctor was out talking to us. Ry woke up pretty fussy, but after about 15 minutes she was back to herself. Aaron and I ran some errands after we left the hospital and Ry slept most of the afternoon. We then went to the urologist. I am a little disappointed though because I was hoping for an answer and all we got where options. He wasn't really able to tell us what we should do. So here are the options given and what we think we will do for now. Option 1... take Ry off the antibiotics and wait to see what happens. She could heal herself and have nothing else ever happen. No infections, no scarring of the kidney's or any other side effects. Option 2... leave Ry on the antibiotics and see what happens. He said that with or without the antibiotics you get about a 60% chance of her body healing itself. Option 3... do an endoscopic surgery. It is an outpatient surgery and takes about 15 minutes. She would be good to go that afternoon. He goes in and basically applies glue to the ureters and bladder. It is 80-90% successful. If it was successful, it would be done and over with. No follow ups, no long term effects. And option 4... open surgery when they would actually cut into her and repair the ureter. This would require her to be in the hospital for 1 or 2 days and would leave a scare, but it is 98% successful. He said we could choose any option and could always change our mind later and try something else. We have opted to take her off the antibiotics and just wait to see what happens. As of right now, we will go back in a year and reevaluate where her reflux is. We have decided to really just put this in God's hands. With prayers we have faith that we can avoid surgery, and also any more infections. So we will keep praying and give her time. I was disappointed that we didn't get a definative direction in treatment, but this does allow for time for Ry to grow and let her body to its thing. Now all of that being said, if she does get another infection in the next year, we will probably ask for the doctor to do the open surgery. We just feel that if we are going to do surgery, we should do the one with the highest percent chance of success. I hope this answers any questions yall might have about how we are treating the reflux and the possible outcomes.