Back To The Start... And Back Under The Knife
It's easy to package Rory's medical story into a little box of Sepsis/Meningitis/Amputation - all the big scary words that are actually just after-effects. Not very often do we refer back to the problem that caused of all this in the first place; a blocked valve in his urology system. And it's that particular area that has our attention at the moment. As a reminder, or for those who have only recently joined the blog; in the days following Rory's initial admission to intensive care back in July 2020, it was discovered that there was a problem with his ureter. The ureter is the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder. Instead of looking like a thin tube as per the diagram below, it was showing up on scans to appear more like an intestine; swollen, bulging and twisted round on itself, struggling for space in his little body. The reason; the valve at the end of the ureter, where the tube meets the bladder, was blocked. It was a simple birth defect, pure ch