One more thing to worry about!

As if Nathan doesn't have enough going on with him we now can add one more to the list. They discovered today that on top of having many kidney stones, Nathan also has GALL STONES!!! This is where his pain is coming from. They did a CT of his abdomen to see the kidney stones and it shows that they are not moving at this time. He still has the 4mm stone and he also has a 2mm stone on the same kidney. The urologist told us he will not be able to pass either of these stones. Then they did an ultrasound of his liver (just to check) and they found the gall stones. Now, what we do from here is undetermined. The urologist is going to meet with the heart surgeons, and possibly some other docs they may consult, and they will dicuss this to see what the best plan of action will be. We should know something by Tuesday. We will be going back down there for additional testing next week. However, this does not affect the heart surgery. They scheduled it for July 14th. We are no longer going to feed Nathan with a bottle, everything will once again run over the pump through his G-tube. They do not want him to have to burn any calories to eat right now and sucking on the bottle burns a lot of calories. They may switch his formula next week. If there is any possible way to have him gain a little weight before this surgery they want to try. As I said this morning, this is not what we want to happen right now but I realize there is no other option. I will keep everyone as informed as I can.