On Sunday Mckenna was running a high fever (like 104-105). This is the third time in like a month that she has spiked a high fever, so we decided it was time to take her in to the doctor. On Monday we took her in and the doctor said "She looks great!". Of course with a dose of Tylenol there was no fever and screaming, but she also didn't have red ears or throat. The doctor decide to check her urine to see if she had a UTI.
How do you get a urine sample from an 11 month of girl???? Good question. First you stick (literally sticky...) a bag around her little girly parts and hope that it catches enough urine when she pees. If you don't get enough from the first try (after we waited like 40 minutes, of course) THEN they put a catheter in- poor, poor baby!!!
So, that was what Mckenna got to put up with for about 1 and 1/2 hours! She got the sticky bag, finally peed, and then it wasn't enough to send out to the lab. However, there was enough for them to tell that she had lots of white blood cells in her urine which usually means a bladder infection. The nurses came in a while later to do the catheter. I felt so terrible for Mckenna! Catheters hurt! The nurses got her all cleaned up and got the tube in. Once the tube was in, though, Mckenna decided to pee on her own---around the tube of course! SO the two nurses, Mckenna and I got covered in Kenna Pee! YUCK! Luckily the nurse caught most of it in the cup :-) She was given a shot of antibiotics, a prescription for one to continue at home and we are still waiting to hear back from the doctor about that labs. They wanted to confirm it was a bladder infection. If it is then Mckenna has to go in for some more testing in a couple of weeks. When kids this young get bladder infections they want to make sure they don't have urinary reflux. In the mean time we have a fussy little baby. Thankfully we have great drugs like Motrin and Tylenol to give her!!!! But she screams whenever we change a diaper now. The catheter traumatized her, ha! No fun!
Oh and p.s........ she is getting two more teeth in at the same time :-(....POOR BABY!
7 comments:
Oh so sad! They did a catheter on Kyle in the hospital too. Ouch! Keep us updated. Teething is not fun either. Hope to see you soon!
How sad. Poor girl. I hope she gets feeling better soon!
Poor Mckenna, that kills me! I'm just glad they were able to figure out what it was, 105 degree temperature is scary! But now she and Chandler and Kyle can start a catheter club :) We hope she gets better soon, give her a big kiss for us!
i cringed when i read this! i feel so bad for her! i hope she gets better soon...and tell her to stop getting such high fevers!
Oh no! That doesn't sound like fun. I hope everything clears up soon!
uh! that sounds terrible. I hope she is feeling better now!
Looking for an update... Amber's comment cracks me up! I'm sure the mothers could make their own club too.
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