Back to Square One

the dr. called today and told me that Larkin's culture showed NO infection. So what is it? Why is she in pain when she tries to 'go'? Why did the test in the dr's office show blood in her urine and her white blood cell count was high? He doesn't know. At the beginning of the conversation, he told me to take her off the antibiotics, but after some talking, he told me to keep her on it for a couple days, "If she's still not better by Monday, bring her in and we'll put in a catheter." Oh goodie! She'll LOVE that. The dr. seemed to focus in on her yeast infection (which is 99% gone) and her constipation. I explained that I don't think she was ever constipated, but that she was holding everything in because it hurts to pee. He told me to keep her on the Meralax anyway. MmmK. We'll see. I'll post update.

Good News Explanation

I don't mean that a UTI is 'Good News'. We are happy that Larkin has a UTI instead of something more serious.

Good News

We were finally able to run a urine test for Larkin this morning. She has a UTI. In hinds-site, I think that she has had it for almost a month. I'll meet with her doctor in a couple weeks to decide if we should get aggressive about testing for kidney reflux. I'm very happy that this was not more serious, but it sure did scare us while we didn't know what was wrong.

Tests

Sweet Larkin has been sick for quite awhile. On Friday afternoon, I called the nurse and explained that she has had a fever off and on for 2 weeks....along with some other symptoms. I asked her if ordering a blood test would be appropriate. She said that she'd have the Doctor call me back. When he called, he told me to buy Culturelle from the pharmacy and see if she improves. This medicine boosts your immune system, improves digestive health, and restores the natural balance of good bacteria in your digestive tract. We went out and bought it ($18...ouch!) and put it in her juice. She perked up quickly and was nearly fever-free on Saturday and Sunday. However, being the paranoid mom that I am, I still took her in this morning for a blood test. The doctor also ordered a urine test, but we're still working on that (I'll spare you the details). Her blood work should be back on Wednesday or Thursday.

I've always known from the time she was 2 months old that she was going to be a sick little child. My gut tells me that her immune system just can't fight off infections as quickly as others. Call it 'mother's intuition', but I've always had a feeling that she was going to be sicker than my other kids. I hope it's only an immune system disorder or something and nothing horrible and untreatable. Then of course, it could be nothing. We'll see.

Jacob's field Trip

This is horribly overdue. The 1st graders went to the zoo this year. The girls and I followed the buses down. I was very nervous about Jacob riding a bus all the way downtown, but I 'cut the cord' and let him do it. Here he is petting a turtle.

S'mores

In early May I realized that my kids had NEVER tried s'mores. Feeling like a horrible mom, I took them to Wal-Mart and we bought the stuff. They thought it was good, but messy. You won't find a picture of Jacob eating them because he just couldn't handle the mess and left the table too quickly. Needless to say, we probably won't be doing s'mores anytime soon.

And here's Jacob's

I finally finished Jacob's board. It was harder than the girl's because most of my stuff is sparkly. But, I'm happy with how it turned out.

More sleeping in Weird Places

I was in the kitchen on the phone with my friend this afternoon when Larkin came

wondering in (half asleep). She layed down and zonked out for almost 2 hours. What's going on with this kid?

Sleeping Babies

Larkin is recovering from a little bug and is still a little tired from not sleeping so well at night and being sick. This afternoon, she gathered up some toys in her stroller and sat down to watch Mickey Mouse and promptly pooped out!

Over the past week or so, we've been trying to get Rainey to sleep in her own bed across the hall in Larkin's room. None of the kids were fans of the new sleeping arrangements so we let Rainey go back to Jacob's bed. Obviously, Jacob and Rainey like sleeping together.

Gettin Crafty..part 2

Here's Larkin's. I'm trying to work on Jacob's now, but it's really hard! I've got to find 'boy stuff'.

More Raineyisms

Rainey to Jim: you have hair in your nose!
Jim: yes, I do
Rainey: you need to get those out!

Jim cut his nose hairs today. Thanks Rainey!

Prepare to laugh..

This was on my friend's blog. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfGXmxJ1vM

Raineyisms

Picture me on my hands and knees cleaning something sticky off the floor. Rainey walks up to me.....

Me: Rainey do you know who did this?
Rainey: I don't know. Maybe it's a mystery.