ANOTHER INFECTION

So my poor little girl has ANOTHER UTI! I noticed earlier this week that she had woken up every day with a VERY full (night time) diaper. So bad that when you walked in the room you could smell it. Wednesday morning she leaked through her diaper... she was wet from the waist down... socks and all. I called her pediatrician's office that morning when I got to work and they said that it wasn't a symptom of a UTI, so unless she had a fever or started acting sick, they wouldn't do a test (cath her for a sample). I said ok and hung up.

I picked Haley up from daycare, and Michele (day care) said that she seemed normal all day. We got home and I had to strip her bed get all of her bedding down to the washing machine. This was including her beloved "Bubby". When she saw me take him she had a fit and started sobbing. I took it all downstairs and threw it in the wash. When I got back upstairs she was still crying so I picked her up and calmed her down. She then said "Eat. Eaaat." I put her down and started to get things out to make dinner. She started patting her booster and saying "Eat. Eat" so picked her up and tried to put her in her booster chair, and again she started freaking out. She ended up not eating much of anything... just a strawberry.

We sat down on the couch after cleaning up the kitchen and I noticed she was warm. Her temp was 103. I called Brandon (who was working) who told me to just take her in to the ER. So, we packed up and off we went.

We got there and the triage nurse took her temp. from her arm pit and it was 99°. I said "that's not right..." So she took it again, and it was the same. I told her again it wasn't right and she said "well if they want to they will do an anal temp. when you get to a room." Whatever.

We got called back and a nurse practitioner came in and I explained what was going on and what had happened earlier this month. She said we could do a bunch of tests related to a fever but if you are certain that she's got a UTI, we will just go ahead and cath her to get a urine sample and see what it says. So that's what they did. AFTER they tortured her with an anal temp. She struggled and screamed and cried. Then they came back to do the cath and oh boy did she fight!! It was heart breaking! She was screaming so hard her face was purple, and she could barely breathe. After the nurse finally got the cath in (her second attempt... the first one came out cause Haley was fighting so hard), Haley cried for about 5 minutes... I held her and rocked her and she just wouldn't stop crying. It hurt her when I was holding her on my side (like I usually carry her).
Anyway, they gave us a prescription and sent us on our way.

We left the ER and went on to Walgreens and got the antibiotics. Went home and went to bed. Both of us were wiped!

Friday I heard from an ER nurse who said "If her fever hasn't gone down or if she is still acting sick Saturday afternoon/evening, to bring her in." So we waited. Saturday during the day, she didn't show much of a fever. We went down to Burnsville to hang out with "Auntie CC" and ended up having an impromptu sleepover! Her temp started going up at around 8:30 that night but I decided to just put her to bed and if it was still up in the morning, I'd bring her in then. It was normal, so I didn't end up having to.

(Wow, Longest post ever. I've been typing bits and pieces of this post for the last week and a half! )

On Wednesday of this week (8/4) we took Haley in to see a Pediatric Urologist nurse practitioner. She was really nice. She told us we did do the right thing by bringing her in to see her, because whats going on is not normal. We made an appointment for 8/25 for Haley to have a test (VCUG) to check to see if she has kidney reflux. They are going to give her a sedative (laughing gas), but this test is not going to be pleasant. For her, especially, but for me too. It is heartbreaking to watch her go through such a painful process. It will be similar to when they've cathed her in the past for a urine sample. But this time they will be inserting a dye into her bladder to see if the dye travels back up into her kidney's (as urine would if she has kidney reflux). Immediately after the test we have an appointment with the practitioner we saw on Wednesday this week to go over the results of the test and talk about options for treatment.

In the mean time, she will finish the antibiotics she is on (that she received last week in the ER) tomorrow, then go on a prophylactic (a preventitive antibiotic) for a month. We will see how it goes.