What's Up Doc

Today we took Ethan to Primary Children's to have a VCUG done and meet with our new urologist.
We felt he should get to sleep in mom and dads super comfy bed since he had such a big day ahead.

During the VCUG they insert a catheter drain his bladder and fill it with contrast fluid. They take pictures of this then drain take more pictures and do it again. They needed to make sure the fluid wasn't being pushed back up into his kidneys. It wasn't so that was good. We had the VCUG appointment at 10:30 and it took way less time than we expected. Since we were downtown and had never been to City Creek, we decided we would kill the time before our next appointment walking around. It was so nice and we really enjoyed it. We want to go back again when we can spend more time. :] 
But, we did find these awesome sunglasses that looked totally cool on Little Dude. Really embodied his nickname. 

 At 1:30 we were meeting with our urologist and headed back to Primary Children's.  Ethan was very tired and very done with the day at this point, and our doc hadn't even seen us yet. Troy spent a lot of time walking back and forth in our room getting him to stay calm. Such a good dad. :]
(Notice: every time Troy holds Ethan he sticks his arm down his side. Most of the time he will get a death grip on Troy's shirt. It's awesome.)

This is our visual aid for Ethan's diagnosis. Awesome, we know.
The kidney on the right is totally normal as you can see. It only has one ureter and it connects to the right place on his kidney.  The kidney on the left however has two ureters. You can see that the bottom ureter is connected to the bladder in the right place and is draining fluid from the bottom half of his left kidney how it should be. The top ureter is not connected properly. He believes it attached itself at the base of the bladder rather than at the back, so the fluid is just stuck. This ureter is about 10 times regular size.
In about six months they will do surgery.
They will go in with a scope, check the anatomy of the bladder from the inside to make sure all looks well, and then go and reattach the bad ureter to the back of the bladder by the other one.  It's about a two hour surgery.  The chunk off to the side of the ureter is a visual of what they will do if they have to taper the ureter to fit into the valve they will create on the bladder.

Woo. That's a lot of information.
But at least we have this cool picture to help. :]
We are glad we know what the problem is, and that there are no major concerns.  Having 2 ureters happens in about every 200 people, and 9 out of 10 times it's not a problem and works just fine.
We just got lucky I guess. :]
Ethan is doing fine, and won't remember anything from the surgery which is a plus.
He takes antibiotics everyday so that infections can't grow in the ureter that is filled with fluid. There is no concern, and we just have to wait until he is older to perform the surgery.