SOOO after our visit to Urgent Care on Saturday night, things were really looking up. Everyone seemed to be on the mend....well, Wednesday morning, 4th of July, Reagan woke up crying in pain. She said her "tushy" hurt REALLY bad. I tried to get her to go potty, nothing. Tried to put her in the bath, screamed. Looked to see if I saw anything, nothing. All I know is she kept SCREAMING in pain!! It was terrible. The pain seemed to be coming and going too...I didn't know what to do! I waited until a little after 8 to call our pediatrician to see if we could go in, but they were closed for the holiday. At about 8:20 I decided we were off to Urgent Care to see what was going on. Keep in mind Reags hadn't gone potty since right before bed the night before...working on a good 12 hours at that point.
Urgent Care did nothing...we tried to get Reags to go potty so they could get a urine sample, but she just couldn't/wouldn't. She was hurting so bad. The "doctor" recommended we go to the ER, so that if worse came to worse, they could cath her to not only relieve the pressure, but get a urine sample.
Off we went to the ER and we got checking in a seen right away. The doctor was a real "gem" (LOTS of scarcasm) and said he had 8 hours to wait to get a urine sample. (Oh and as he was checking Reagan, he said "you know you can smile" I wanted to PUNCH him in the face...I said "She is a VERY happy girl, but feels miseralbe right now." JERK!) Poor Reags was MISERABLE at this point, although she was being a trooper and they had a Cinderella and Lady and the Tramp book in the room to keep us occupied. I told the doctor just to cath her so that she had some relief, however he didn't agree with that. Needless to say about an hour after we got there Reagan just started SCREAMING at the top of her lungs in pain and was peeing...she just couldn't hold it anymore and peed ALL over me, ALL over herself, ALL over the floor. THANKFULLY three nurses walked in as she was screaming in pain and one put the "sample" cup under her to catch enough for a sample. Bless my sweet girl's heart...it was awful. I couldn't do anything but comfort her as best I could and tell her she would feel so much better once she got it all out. Once she did and we were both covered...she was a new girl. She seemed to feel SO much better, THANK GOODNESS!! We got out of our yucky clothes and I got into some nice XXL paper scrubs and Reags just sat naked with her blankey. I called Keith to come meet us with some snacks for Reagan and clean clothes for both of us. He finally got there, the TV in the room was plugged in, we found Nick Jr. and all was right in Reaggie's world again.
After, I don't even know how long, we finally got the results back and she had a UTI. Poor thing! However, we got a prescription and finally signed the discharge papers and we were on our way home.
As soon as we got home we both bathed/showered as it was TOTALLY necessary and then R took a NICE, LONG nappy. She was exhausted. She woke up happy though and we had a delicious dinner, dessert, and saw some great fireworks. My mom and John came that afternoon, since we weren't in Rochester, so it was nice having them here too...especially after such a LONG day!
Other than the first half of our day, we had a really nice 4th of July! This also marked Landon man's LAST "first" holiday... :( How did that happen already?
Seriously...precious!
(Just a side note...this is the outfit Keith put on Landon to come to the hospital. When they got there I, of course, said in my oh so pathedic I've had it with sick kids mommy voice "but that's not his 4th of July outfit." I'm ridiculous I know. However, Keith did think to do the red, white, and blue and I wasn't upset at all to see my little man sporting his Phillies gear ;) )
walking around EVERYWHERE with this thing!
Such the Landon face these days :)
Mommy and my sweet man!
We busted out our tunnel the other day and it was a HIT with Landon and Reagan acted like she had no memory of it. Super!! They had a BLAST in it!
Enjoying our YUMMMMMMY dinner!!
Sweet girl...such a yucky day for her, but she was SUCH a trooper!
Movie Star!
Waiting for the fireworks to start...hanging out in the minivan :) She kept turning the music up louder and louder...keep in mind we were jamming to some "Itsy Bitsy Spider," "Hot Cross Buns," "Humpty Dumpty"...and several other classics :)
Fireworks time!!
SOOOO in case you're remembering an ER trip a couple years ago on 4th of July...that was me. Two years ago on the 4th. Lovely. Also, I was just thinking the other day how we hadn't been to the ER with R in awhile. We went right after her 1st birthday, last winter with her high fever, last year after her 2nd because of the peanuts, and now, less than a month after her birthday, we were back again.
Today is Friday (which I am SO messed up on my days this week) and we went to the doctor this morning as a follow up and everything seems like it is getting better. We are SO thankful!
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