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Procedure went well this morning. The nephrostomy tubes were removed, and stents were inserted. They seem to be working fine so far, and I seem to be slowly getting back to normal urination.
I do have a bit of pain right now but that is irritation caused by the catheter that was temporarily in place.
The pain should get better over the next few days.
Hi Everyone,
Happy New Year!!
Tomorrow I will be going in for a cystoscopy followed by a potential stent insertion. The whole experience should take about an hour, and I will be out for the procedure.
Since completing my chemotherapy, my urological oncologist has not been able to adequately look at the inside of my bladder. Tomorrow he will do so and determine how well my ureters are draining from my kidney to the bladder. If they look relatively good, he may be able to remove the neph tube, and allow the kidney to drain into the bladder on it's own, or he may insert a stent from the kidney to the bladder along my ureter to assist in the draining, and then remove the neph tube.
The default option for tomorrow will be to insert stents into both my kidneys to the bladder, and to remove the neph tubes.
The stents might then come out in a few months if I can't tolerate them, or the draining continues to improve.
I will post a message to you all on Wednesday to let you know how it all went.