12.12.12 Urology meeting

12.12.12 may have been a busy time for Obstetricians delivering babies and for wedding bells to ring.  For us it was our first meeting with Urologist Dr John Ngan.  Since our 20 week scan with Queen Mary Hospital, we were led to believe that Ultan will probably have one of many things wrong with his kidneys from duplex kidney, to blockage to reflux.  What we did know was that Ultan's renal system on his left side was dilated and we would have to wait until he was born to investigate fully.

Dr John performed an initial scan in his office and it was from that scan that we heard the news, "in my expert opinion, Ultan will not require surgery on his kidneys".  It was such good news I asked him to repeat it for me.  However, he wanted to be sure and we were sent to Sanatorium Hospital for a scan with Dr Mark Chan who confirmed that Ultan had a slight dilation of 2mm on his left kidney which is considered very small in the medical world.

For now we celebrate this good news and hope that Ultan doesn't get any UTI infections and we will see Dr John Ngan in June who will hopefully confirm the dilation has reduced and the kidney has returned to normal.

I am actually looking forward to seeing Dr John's art again.  Very clever :)

PS When I was pregnant we also met with Urologist Dr Jennifer Sihoe who I would recommend as well.  We were introduced to Dr John Ngan through our Plastic Surgeon when I was investigating ways to reduce the number of times that Ultan had to go under general anesthetic.  Dr John Ngan has previously worked with our plastic surgeon who felt comfortable to perform his surgery with him.  Thankfully Ultan's renal system does not require any surgery.