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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (284)	3/12/2002 2:18:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1336

I don't remember if any of the biotechies are MDs, but I'll post this here anyway: Miriel, our two year old, may be having a nephrectomy to remove the multicystic dysplastic kidney, in about a month. The surgeon will also be checking on a few other things, ovarian cysts which are going the wrong way, and fluid in the uterus. I've already been to my GP to ask--hey, what questions should we be asking the urologist/surgeon before we do this...and naturally we will run all our questions by our pediatrician. Naturally the main question--is it neccessary? I think it is not a bad idea, naturally biopsy everything for Wilms tumor, and find what is going on with the uterus, if it isn't just an imperforate etc. They'll start with the vaginoscopy and the cystoscopy before deciding on the main surgery naturally. My GP said, it is after RSV season, so that is one less infection to worry about in the hospital. He didn't have alot to say other than Wilms is very treatable etc. We are not actually freaked out about the probability of cancer--chances are, just boring, annoying, benign cysts--the main thing is they're not resolving, so although M was checked for reflux, maybe the MDK has a tiny amount of function, which of course is bad. Miriel's urologist is very good from what we here, one of the main guys here in Seattle. Also, the radiology dept at Children's is very good--we are there every six months, and you can be sure they have been knocking themselves out to generate good films of all the cystic structures. M's good Kidney kicks ass, no worries, just no tackle football of course! Oh, finally, Miss M has the flu or something today, geeze, what can you give them that they will keep down? That has to be the worst, watching toddlers vomit, poor thing--water is the only thing that doesn't immediately come back up.