Mieke Prinsloo

Mieke Prinsloo is my 5-year-old daughter.

She has been diagnosed with Primary Grade 4 VUR (vesicoureteral reflux) on her right kidney. This means that urine pushes up from the bladder into the right kidney causing damage and scarring. She was possibly born with impaired kidney function without our knowledge and has less than 10% function in her right kidney. It also has atrophy at only 5cm in size and the left kidney, that picked up all the work, has hypertrophy at 10cm in size. 

There is essentially little to no function left in the right kidney.

In addition to all of this, her bladder has impaired function, as it is trabeculated in spasm and does not empty properly. She underwent urodynamic studies in Sandton to verify the bladder problem and it has been decided to do a wait-and-see approach moving forward with her kidney and diagnosis as she gets multiple aggressive and recurrent UTI infections. 

We are on a basic hospital plan. Private hospital admissions are covered on a scheme-based tariff. Any out of ordinary tariffs that specialists, radio...