Cass did a DTPA renal scan at HKL today. For the first time, we needn't have to camp there the entire day. Waiting time was 5 hours, which is considered very fast at HKL. We reached HKL at 8 a.m. and left the hospital at 2-ish p.m. The renal nuclear scan lasted an hour. Thank God everything went pretty smoothly today. But the report will only be ready in a week's time and my next appointment to see the head of Urology is in early February 2021. Hopefully we'll be given an earlier date to see the doctor.
Though we've spent almost the entire year in home quarantine this year, it's nevertheless a blessing in disguise for Cass. Had there been no lockdown, Cass would have to skip school several times and may even need to skip a few major exams to undergo all the diagnostic tests at HKL. With HKL, if you postpone a given appointment, you may have to wait for months for another! In summary, these are the diagnostic tests that Cass did this year:
1. MRU
2. Cystoscopy
3. DTPA renal scan
4. Ultrasound scan of her kidneys
5. Several rounds of blood and urine tests
I hope that this will be the last invasive diagnostic test that Cass has to go through and her surgeon will be able to diagnose and tell us how she intends to perform the surgery to fix the issue 🙏. It seems to look like a very complicated problem (finding the root is perhaps like finding a needle in a haystack) and I pray to God for His direction and intervention in resolving Cass' issue soonest.
This is the waiting room for all the patients injected with nuclear medicine with radiation. They were all waiting for their turns to do their scans.
