Little Leah's Road to Recovery

It has been a long week of hospitaling. Last Monday the 20th, I felt that Leah was warm and took her temperature which was 38 at home. Since I also noticed her to be warm on the Friday before, we made arrangements to go to the hospital that night because we knew she was at risk of infection with her kidney issues.

That same night in emergency, Leah's had her urine screened through a catheter, had blood tested and a spinal fluid test as well to see if there was infection in her blood and brain. We learned quickly that there was cultures/bacteria in her urine a nd she had an infection so she was given an IV in emerg to get the antibiotics in her. We were later met with the pediatrician from the 6th floor who said Leah would be admitted and would need IV antibiotics as we awaiting e results of the tests from the lab.

The first 5 days were really hard as Leah was taking the antibiotics and one of which she did not react well to and her levels were not going down significantly. Leah had an ultrasound on the Thursday and they found that there was a significant amount of puss (medical people call this debris) and her body would be unable to absorb the antibiotic and fight the infection with this in her urinary tract. It was after this ultrasound that they put a catheter on my baby and the Friday she was brought in for emergency surgery to remove he blockage from her grater to bladder so she could begin to fight the infection.

It was after the surgery that everything started noticeably getting better! Her persistent fevers have stopped, we watched lots of the puss in her kidney and ureters come out through her pee in her catheter and she is generally looking much happier these days.

Logan has come to the hospital a few times, gave his sister kissies to help her feel better and loves playing in he backyard Play room here on the pediatrics unit. He is also fond of eating the little peanut butter packs with a spoon... hospital snacking!

 My little lady is so strong. She has had regular blood work done, is on her 4th IV and has been pricked many times to try to get those in, had surgery under an anastethic and has been pumped with medicine. All the while she is smiling more every day and sweet as can be.

So from surgery day, the Drs are saying 14 days of antibiotics/hospital stay. So now 10 more days of sleepless hospital nights and lots of back and forth so Logan gets both his parents.

I am very excited for her to feel better than she ever has since her blockage has been there since I was pregnant. The surgery made us feel much better about recovery (she was scheduled to have surgery anyways but it was expedited with her infection).

Looking forward to some good hometime with the 4 of us together when she's better!

The Fun Stuff of the Long Weekend

We did so many little things this long weekend that it actually felt long! Especially because we made plans on Friday night. Usually Fridays consist of a Wal Mart snack trip and family movie night. Our original plan was to take Logan to Delaware Speedway with a sitter lined up for Leah but then we realized the actual racing started at 7:45pm, which is Logans bedtime and with Leah, we probably wouldnt have ended up home until 10:30-11pm so we decided to cancel (we will try again next year when Logans a bit older and can handle a late night and Leah's bigger too!). So instead of that we decided to go back to Kustermans and go to the play area this time.

The first thing that Logan remembered when we said we were going blueberry picking again was the train ride! Even though it was technically closed, the place was so dead that they let us go on anyways! Plus, Logan got the yellow car.

Last time we got rained out when blueberry picking a couple weeks ago, but this time we had perfect weather. This is exactly how blueberry picking goes: us picking, Logan eating and Leah sleeping. These are the best blueberries.

We grabbed one of their delicious blueberry pies too for our bbq with Steph & Jon on Saturday.

Because evenings are rushed, I thought the best easiest thing to do for supper would be pack sandwiches. Easy and fast!

So we had a little supper picnic before heading into the play area.

It was the best time ever to go. There were no kids... maybe a couple other people out in the massive play area and because of how big it is, we didn't even notice. We had the entire corn pit and everything else to ourselves! If we go back, it will be a Friday after work for sure.

We went to Ilderton twice on Saturday. First, we hit up the Ilderton Farmers market which we discovered the week before for veggies and local meat. The later in the afternoon we went to the Tessa and Scott Moir Thank you parade in Ilderton with Steph, Jon and Rachel!

It was the hottest day ever and a super packed event!

I think I was more excited by Splash and Boots than Tessa and Scott. They have been on my tv on good ol' treehouse way more than the ice skating!




















And this is the huge crowd at the parade and also if you really look close, there's Tessa and Scott in the car there!

And because it was the hottest 45 minutes of parade watching ever, the kids cooled off after in the splash pad. We parked right beside it so why not?

Backyard bbq to follow complete with a fire!

And the next day we decided to re-visit the splash pad this time with a bathing suit so Logan could have more play! He loved it!