Just another thing on our plates!

What a crazy few days it has been! I guess we aren't really isolated in the crazy department, you work and raise kids and how can life not be crazy.

Wednesday night Kaitlyn kept telling me her bladder hurt. She said it was just a sharp pain and would come and go while she was sitting or standing. She wasn't having any other normal symptoms of a UTI so I just told her I would see how she was the next morning. Yesterday she woke up and said it was ok, no worse, and she wanted to go to school. When I got to school to pick her up she immediately said she had to go to the bathroom. So I unloaded Trace and went back into the school. Her teacher then told me that she had actually mentioned the issues to her. So I gave her the option of going to the doctors right then or risking waiting another day and possibly having to miss a birthday party she was invited to tonight. She choose the docs.

We got to the doctors, waiting until the lab tech came and got us, went back did all the temp./blood pressure/ pre-lim stuff without any issues. Then she gave Kaitlyn the "hat" and the cup and the panic set in. Trace was being an animal, not surprisingly, and Kaitlyn is crying and I am losing my mind! I made Trace sit in the chair with the nurse and I went in with Kaity and did what I could to convince her that this was her best option. After about 40 minutes she finally went. What a process!

So I figured that would be, they would run the test, call in the prescription and we would be on our way... WRONG. The test showed glucose in it. So the nurse wanted Matt (our doctor and family friend) to look at it and see what he wanted to do and she didn't want us to leave until this all happened. Trace by this time was DONE. He wouldn't sit in the chair, he wanted a sucker (that he found in a drawer in the lab that he kept opening) and he wanted to run. The wonderful nurse brought both kids a sucker so at least that kept him content for 2 minutes. Kaitlyn was just exhausted and just sat in the chair about ready to fall over.

Dr. Lawrence came out and sat with us for a few minutes and said that the urine tests often times produce a false positive so he wasn't going to get to worked up about it. He said asked if we could do a finger poke just to see where her blood/sugar was. She agreed and back to the lab we go. He sat with us while they did and her number was a 159. 159 isn't extremely high but since she had not eaten since 11:30 and it was now after 4 pm, it raised a red flag. Diabetic is 200 plus. So we talked for a bit and knowing that a UTI can cause high blood sugar BUT diabetes can cause UTI's we decided to do 5 days on the meds to clear up the UTI, 5 days off meds and then a 12 hour fast and re-test. She announced they were not going to poke her finger again because she could feel her heart beating through her finger where they had just poked her. She was so brave through that part, only had a few tears and didn't freak out at the blood.

She was feeling a ton better this morning, just asking if she could be excused from PE (which wasn't needed since she only has a 1/2 day of school). We talked to her quite a bit about sugar and cutting back and drinking more water. Of course mother of the year right here, ONLY had vanilla ice cream last night to give her with her mashed up antibiotic horse pill. She took it with oatmeal this morning and she told me that was a much better choice.

We'll see how she is in 10 days, hopefully it was just part of the UTI and there really is no cause for concern.

It's Friday and I get to work all weekend. Rick is at his appointment now with the neurologist. He will be here at the store with Scott working on Scott's car all afternoon. Kaitlyn has a birthday party tonight so its a busy day for all!

I hope all of you have a great TGIF!!