It was a hard weekend at our house. Michaela had a fever of 103 on Friday night so I took her to the doctor Saturday morning (I couldn't believe they were open!) and they said she just had some sort of a virus. On his way out of the room, he asked me if she was pooping and peeing normally, so I told him that latley her pee smelled stinky. He said that could be a big problem so he wanted to do a urine test. And how do you test infant urine you might ask? Well you can't very well tell them to pee in a cup - so you do the lovley cathater! So the best nurse in the office came in and said she does a million of them a day and they are really easy. SO we took the diaper off and she made me hold Michaela's legs like a frog while she shoved a plastic tube up THERE to get a urine sample. Great nurse or not, she failed to get the cathater in right so after several attempts, I asked her to stop so I could hold Michaela and get her to stop crying. As soon as she took out the tube, Michaela peed all over the table leaving us with no pee sample and an empty bladder. The doctor came in and because the pee was fresh on the table he used a test strip to at least start testing, and they taped a bag to Michaela's SELF to get a sample. It only took a few seconds for it to turn up as a urinary tract infection, so they thought it must have been a pretty severe infection. So Shawnie and I had to cart Michaela around the hospital waiting for her to pee so we could take it to the lab for testing. But because she has a plastic bag taped to her poor little peepee evrey time I adjusted her she screamed in pain! Okay cut to us back at home, pee sample sucessfully taken and dropped off, and that night, Michaela spiked a temp again of 105.6, so we headed to the emergency room. When we got there, they started an IV, which was a horrible experience for me too because she strapped her down and made me hold her while they poked her...:( So one IV and a lot of Tyleno later, they got the blod and another urine smaple back which showed a major Kidney infection, not just a UTI. So they sent us home and told me to follow up with her doctor on Monday. So we went home, put Michaela in the middle and 1/2 way slept the rest of the night. WELL, Sunday morning, we awoke to Michaela puking her brains out (on me be the way) and her temp was back up to 104, so we high tailed it BACK to the ER. Okay they had to put another IV in because she needed another dose of antibiotics so they tried to get it in the other arm since the night before they did one too. Cut to us still trying to get an IV in, two nurses an dfour attempts later, Michaela (and mommy and daddy) were miserable. I put the kiabosh on the IV and told them to try drinkable antibiotics and if she threw it up again, THEN they could poke her again. Instead of that, they gave her a SHOT of medicine, which was horrible because it wan't one shot but too! Then they wanted ANOTHER urine sample so they had a nurse come in and do another cathater, even though I tried to explain to her that Michaela wansn't built for those and they should just bag her again. Of course they wouldn't and they tried and failed again to insert the plastic tube but ended up bagging her. Okay, long story shortened, she had a miserable weekend. They sent her home again once her fever was down, and we contnued the Mortin and Tylenol every three hours. She is doing much better and is going back to the doctor at 4 pm today for ANOTHER shot of antibiotics and an assesment. We will keep you updated as we know more.
And I love the gospel that teaches me that I can be with all these loves of my life for eternity!
