his name is finn. his left kidney is broken.

So, we've known since before Finn was born that both of his kidneys were retaining fluid. When he was seven weeks old we went to Primary Children's Medical Center for some testing and met with a (amazing) pediatric urologist. At that point in time, her recommendation was to leave it be and check back with her in six months.

In November we had some ultrasounds done in Idaho Falls and the tech said that his right kidney looked like it had fixed itself, but his left kidney was just as enlarged as it had always been. We scheduled another round of tests at Primary Children's and went down there on Friday.

Long story short, based on the results of those tests...Finn will need to have surgery to repair his left kidney at the end of the month. There is a 'kink' in the tube from his kidney and bladder that now has to be removed. They will reattach the good ends of the tube back together and hopefully that will fix the problem. He'll have a tube coming out the incision in his back helping to drain the excess fluid for a week. (I'm kinda freaked out about this part.)

Finn's a trooper and such a smart little thing. The same tech helped us on Friday that had helped us when Finn was 7 weeks old and the SECOND that he looked at that guy he just started shaking like a leaf. Of course, we think it's because he remembers him and knew what was about to happen--an unfortunate procedure involving a catheter and an I.V.

ANYWAY...we're fairly calm about the whole thing. We have faith that everything is going to be alright. Mostly we're just heartbroken that we're going to have to see more of these sad faces:



Keep him in your thoughts and prayers! We hope to have have updates of a better variety soon!

P.S. Honestly though, I think those tiny hospital gowns are kinda cute!