A typical day...?

I had one of those days last week that you never plan on but inevitably happen. You know the one... you have your "to do" list for the day and then little by little you realize nothing's going to get done. Mind you, my "to do" list these days consists mainly of survival tasks; shower, eat, go to the bathroom, feed the kids, etc. Luxury items like real cooking and cleaning have not made it back on the list yet... in time though, right?

Anyway, back to my day... Kaelynn had been sick and running a crazy temperature for a couple of days and was now complaining of ear and side pain. So, time to go to the doctor for probably an ear infection and the aches and pains of the flu. I managed to find a friend to watch Alicia so that I was only taking 2 children to the doctor.

After the doctor checks her out she rules out an ear infection but suspects a possible bladder infection, so we do a urine test. Well, good news.. no bladder infection. Bed news.. there's sugar in her urine. We do a blood glucose test and she has pretty high blood sugar. It's not likely diabetes, but we can't rule it out. She is clearly sick and her body is dehydrated and this could elevate her blood sugars. So, a call to a specialist and the doctor says you need to go to the ER now to get her hydrated. A call to Dad to meet us there, one to my friend to say can Alicia stay with you until who knows when?! And we're off...

The ER doctor ordered a chest x-ray to check for pneumonia and meanwhile they are all trying to figure out the blood sugars. X-ray comes back and he says it's normal so we are admitting her until we can figure out why her blood sugar is so high. Later, we get a call saying the radiologist read the x-ray and she actually does have pneumonia. Hopefully this is good news because it will explain the crazy fever and maybe even the blood sugars and we won't be looking at a diabetes diagnosis.

So, after antibiotics and hydrating her body... our girl is back!! It was so sad seeing her so sick and completely out of it but so great to have her acting like herself again!

Let me tell you when I packed my diaper bagat 10:30 AM that day it did not contain enough supplies for anyone to be gone so long with a one-month old baby! Luckily we were in the pediatric ward and they have size 1 diapers!! After a short doctor's appointment turned into a totally unexpected hospital stay we were able to bring our girl home and start getting life back to normal (what is that, anyway?)



These pictures are from the day she was released so she is feeling much better.

They had a therapy dog come into her room and she had a lot of fun playing with her.