Oh Tabitha - I can't begin to imagine what you are going through - being a parent is so tough sometimes - especially when our little ones are sick!
You are in my thoughts!!!
Bws Jane
> Doing good now. Finally yes. We have actually been in the hospital since
> > Saturday with Ally. We just got home on Tuesday. Thursday night she was
> > running a fever and then Eric called the doctor on Friday morning and he
> > said to give her Pediacare and baths to bring it down. It seemed to work > > but
> > she just kept getting the fevers back. On Saturday morning she was just
> > burning up and I didn't get any sleep on Friday night. Eric took her temp
> > rectally and it was 105.6. So we took Abby to his parents house and rushed
> > Ally to the emergency room here in Venice. They weren't sure what was > > wrong
> > and they did a spinal tap on her and took some blood. They wanted to rule
> > out meningitis. It was ruled out. They gave her an IV. Then we had to be
> > transported to Sarasota Memorial Hospital. We were then admitted there. > > She
> > ended up having a Urinary Tract Infection. Plus she had this thing called
> > reflux. Plus E Coli which we found out exists in all of us. Her white > > blood
> > cells were over 200 and by the time we left I think she had none or at the
> > very least at a comfortable level. What reflux is, is when she goes to the
> > bathroom instead of going up and then coming back out it goes up and into
> > the kidneys and then back out which isn't good. Our pediatrician is > > setting
> > up an appointment for us to go to All Children's Hospital in Tampa to get
> > another urine test done and a VSUG and ultrasound. Poor thing had to have > > an
> > IV. Plus she was on this apnea monitor and then a thing on her foot to
> > monitor her heart rate and oxygen level. The only thing that was stuck
> > inside of her was the IV. At first they said we were going to have to be
> > there for 5 days and we wouldn't have been home until today. But she was
> > good to go on Tuesday :) I got to stay in a bed in the room with her. We > > had
> > our own room. Eric stayed with us on Saturday night and then went home on
> > Sunday since he had to work on Monday. Then we had her 2 month checkup
> > yesterday and she got 5 shots. Poor thing has been through a lot this > > week.
> > She's finally back to her normal self which is only waking up once a > > night.
> > :) I did take pictures of her in the hospital :) So that's what we have > > been
> > up to and why I haven't been on the group. Plus we have to give her > > medicine
> > twice a day for 10 days and then once a day up until we go to All
> > Children's. Her poor medicine is like $35 a bottle. One good thing is that
> > if we have to for the bills we can make payments :)
> >
> > I did tell her that there is a possibility of surgery but she can grow out
> > of this.
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> > Tabitha
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