So yesterday afternoon was Emma's 1st trip to urgent care, and there was nothing urgent about this place. We got there at 5:05 pm and waited patiently outside. We were told it was over a 2 hour wait. Which it was, because we didn't get called until 7:15 or so. Then we didn't leave until 9 pm to go home.
Emma has been running a low fever since Friday night. She has been sleeping terribly and didn't even nap much more than 15 minutes or so at a time. She seemed perfectly happy at times and then like a switch, she would all of the sudden turn to being super cranky and crying. She was also rubbing her ear, so we thought it could be an ear infection.
We got all of her vitals and stats, and good news no fever at the time. The nurse said that the Motrin that I gave her earlier was doing it's job.
From this picture you couldn't tell she was sick, but trust me, all of the circles we walked outside could tell you otherwise. Douggie, my mom, my dad and I kept walking in circles pushing Emma in her stroller. The second we stopped, she would start crying.
We saw the doctor and she checked Emma's ears and ruled out an ear infection, silly parents for trying to diagnose the kiddo.
She thought there was a chance that she could have a urinary tract infection, so she ordered a catheter, which was pretty devastating. So after about a 45 minute wait it all went down hill.
Poor Emma started screaming as they put the iodine on her, then came the catheter and the nurse missed the 1st time and didn't collect enough urine. She tried again and bam, tons of urine that time, that some how ended up all over Emma and mama.
They said that the initial test they ran came back slightly positive, but that they were going to run it in the lab and let us know. They didn't give her any antibiotics yet, because they wanted to wait to see what the lab said.
They said that it could also be a virus and to keep an eye on her and see if she gets worse.
So cozy in bed this morning with dada and even Corona.
She had another rough night sleeping so early this morning she came into bed with us.
I know that all of you parents are probably thinking, what typical 1st time parents we are over reacting, but trust me this kid isn't normally acting like this so we wanted to get her checked out.
She is still not herself, but we will keep our fingers crossed that she get better soon.
4 comments:
Oh, poor girl! She was an angel on Saturday. And there is no such thing as parents overreacting! We care. A lot.
They tried to do the cathater with Jillian and I won't go into it here but it didn't work out. So Jason had to wait FOREVER for the "bag test" for a UTI. No fun at all.
Wishing Emma a speedy recovery from whatever is ailing her.
Oh and yay for Urgent Care (soooo sarcastic). Jillian had her inagural visit around 8 months, I think.
Hope she feels better soon!
Oh Emma - I wish I could just hug away your pain. Hopefully the antibiotics will work quickly. We love you and will call to keep in touch. A parent can NEVER be too careful not only with babies but with children. Way to go Marie and Doug!!!
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