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!
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