What a week (ER trips)

So as Parents Mark and I had been very lucky and had not made one ER run to date. Then Sunday night as Jaren was walking up to the stairs in the garage he tripped and hit his head on the bottom step which was followed by a trip to the ER for stitches. We ended up getting glued together (pictures below)

That night / Monday a.m. Landrie woke up with a fever. I stayed home with her and she was needy, but her fever stayed away. so I went to work on Tuesday. At four on Tuesday she spiked a fever of 102. Tylenol broke the fever and we were good till about 10 o'clock when she started laboring to breath (almost holding her breath) jerking and shaking and her color was off a bit, low grade fever. She did this till she fell asleep about 15 horrible min. So I stayed home with her on Wednesday, again she was good just needy. She had a low grade fever, but nothing bad. We had called the doctor and the doctor said, no more monkey's jumping on the bed...... oh, wait we were talking about Landrie. He said that if she had the fever Wednesday night to bring her in on Thursday so that was the plan. Mark and I got everything ready for him to take the kids to the doctor - Landrie for the fever and Jaren for a possible infection as his wound was oozing a bit - the bag was packed and the note of what to say and ask was ready to go. Landrie had other plans. At 11:30 she got up to eat and was doing fine. At about Midnight she started the labored breathing and shaking again. With a temp of 101. 10 min later we took the temp 102 10 min. later 103 then is jumped straight to 105. We called my dad as he was still awake from getting home from work. I left straight away with Landrie to go to the ER and mark came when my parents got to our house.

When we got to the ER her fever was down to 102.9 with meds in her for 30 min. already. The twitching was gone. The doc. checked her out and said that everything looked good - it was not ears, or lungs, so he wanted to do a cath to rule our a UTI - well, instead of ruling it out we find a (in the nurses words) a BAD UTI. We were told we would be admitted and that we didn't have a choice we had to take the ambulance. I had never riden in an ambulance so we both had a first. Mark followed us.

The doctor this a.m. explained that there are two kinds of UTI's one in the bladder and one in the kidneys. The one with the bladder one dose of IV antibiotics should cure and keep the fever away, but we would do a abdominal sono to look at her kidneys as well. Well, her fever did return and I know from the sono tech that she has a small amount of urine by her left kidney. The doctor won't be in to tell us what that really means till the a.m.

Landrie is in great spirits which is helping a ton, and Jaren is at grandmas so life is great for him.

This is a pic I took on Tuesday night as we were hanging out at home, I just thought it was precious to see Daddy and Landries hands together.


This is Landries hand today. We are affectionatly referring to it as her club. She is dying to chew on her fingers and grab her toys, but all in all it isn't bothering her to much.


This is Daddy and Landrie at the ER - she did well, but didn't like the Cath or the IV being put in, can't blame her.


Mommy and Landrie at the ER - she is showing you all her club :)


This was supposed to be a pic of her in the ambulance, but I put the wrong pic sorry


This is Jaren sunday at the ER before the glue obviously. Funny story here of course. If you know Jaren you know he is a bit OCD with his routines and independance. Well when he fell Mark naturally picked him up to bring him inside and stop the blood from getting everywhere and he was screaming bloody murder. Then we figured it out. He wasn't yelling because it hurt he was yelling because Mark carried him inside so we had to take him gash and all back outside so he could come inside by himself. Then he was perfectly fine. Then we turned right back around and went to the er. He had to get into the car and the carseat all by himself still. He was pretty sure he was in heaven though as he got cookies in the car seat.


Jaren on Wednesday with the ooz and the glue


The kids just wanted to make sure we met our deductible by the end of this year (not a problem) At least they took care of all of this before Christmas and our Jan. trip to Great Wolf Lodge.

Thanks to everyone for their prayers - please keep them coming that the results of the sono are good. What I didn't mention was that if the leak to the kidneys is bad enough (stage 3 or 4 out of 4) she will most likely have to have surgery.