{"id":9512,"date":"2005-09-30T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/30\/not-so-good-news\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T17:27:40","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T14:27:40","slug":"not-so-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/30\/not-so-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so good news"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Dr.Simos called Olga and told her that he finally managed to talk to Dr.Avraam from Nicosia.  It turns out that Maxim&#8217;s kidney tests are not as good as we hoped that they would be.  The functionality of the kidneys is outside of the safe range.  One kidney performs at 58%, while the other one is only at 42%.  It&#8217;s this latter kidney which is worrying.  It should be at least at 45%.<\/p>\n<p>The danger of this situation is in the possibility of urine getting back into the kidney.  If this happens Maxim will be in a lot of trouble, not to mention pain.  So, obviously, some action needs to be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Another test will be scheduled in the near future to study the situation more and to see how dangerous it really is.  Unfortunately, Olga didn&#8217;t catch the name of the test while on the phone with Dr.Simos, so I can&#8217;t give you any details yet.  Neither can I search the web for more information.  But rest assured that we&#8217;ll be talking Dr.Simos shortly.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Dr.Simos called Olga and told her that he finally managed to talk to Dr.Avraam from Nicosia. It turns out that Maxim&#8217;s kidney tests are not as good as we hoped that they would be. The functionality of the kidneys is outside of the safe range. 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This one will have to be repeated in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9715,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/29\/pediatritian-check-for-9-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":9512,"position":3},"title":"Pediatritian check for 9 month","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time again to take Maxim for a routine pediatrician check. And so we did. The boy is growing. He measured at 73 cm in length, while 9.5 kg of weight. That's a real improvement of almost a kilogram since last month. 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