Here We Go Again

As many of you already know BrynLee spent the weekend trying to get teeth! Friday started with low grade fevers and fussiness, Saturday just slowly got worse and Sunday was miserable! She still had a pretty low fever, but she kept getting belly aches and was just so uncomfortable! Even with medicine she was just miserable! She just sat in my arms and moaned!
I couldn't sit down.
I couldn't stand still.
I had to walk. And bounce. All day long!
Sunday night when I put BrynLee in the bathtub I just knew. I knew she had another infection. I knew it was going to be a long night! She's usually so happy and plays and kicks and splashes, even when she's not feeling the best, but not last night! She just laid there. Laid there and looked at me with eyes that said, "Mom, make it better!" Oh how I hate seeing those eyes!
I got her to bed by 9ish and she woke up at midnight. This is very uncommon, but since Friday she's got up 2-3 times a night. (I really hope once she feels better she'll go back to her regular schedule!) She didn't have a fever and ate pretty well, so I put her back to bed..
3:00AM on the dot.. That cry. Her cry. The one I know very distinctly as PAIN! She doesn't even really cry, she just moans. It's horrible. It's heartbreaking!
As soon as I picked her up I knew. She was so HOT! I took her temperature with our ear thermometer and it said 100.6! I litterally wanted to throw it against the wall. I knew she was hotter than that. I went to the bathroom and dug through the cupboard to find my regular digital thermometer! I positioned it in her armpit, wrapped her up (she hates that thermometer, why it makes any difference I don't know, but she screams!) and paced the floor while I waited! It STARTED at 100. Waited 101.3. Waited 102.7. Waited. 103.2. Waited and finally it beeped. 103.7! Again. That dreaded number!
I got a pedialyte bottle and we sat in the rocker. She will throw up formula when she's that hot and I knew she needed all the hydration she could get! With every rock back and forth I thought of how I was going to get her to the hospital! Did I wake up my husband and have him go with us so I could hold BrynLee all the way to town!? There's no way I could make her sit in her carseat and scream for 45 minutes in that condition! If he went with me that meant we'd have to find someone to come sit with the other kids at 3AM! I didn't want to do that! And I couldn't go alone! I can't drive that far and hold her and at that time she needed held! I rocked and rocked! She ate, she burped, she cried and after a while she finally slept. And I rocked! I couldn't put her down! I couldn't let her go! She was still so hot! I took her temperature again and it was 102.9. It had gone down! Not much, but anything was progress!
I rocked.
Whenever I hold her I'm constantly kissing her forhead! Just out of habit. Alot when she has a fever, to check her temperature, but it's just something I always do. 4:30AM, I kissed her forhead and it was cold! I took her temperature again, somehow without waking her up, and it was 98.6. Right on the money! I was finally comfortable putting her back in bed!
I was hoping to get another 30 minutes of sleep, but that didn't happen. I ended up in the shower at 5:15 and ready to go by 7. The doctor's office doesn't even open until 8!
The soonest they could get her in was 10:45 and we were there by 10:30. Went in, sat down, waited! After talking to her pediatrician, and him talking to her urologist, we decided we were going to try to cath her. Today was the first time since her post op checkup with Dr. Wallis at Primary Childrens. At that time he wasn't able to get anything because her bladder wasn't holding any urine and she was leaking constantly! I've noticed over the last few weeks that she only urinates when she cries, or pushes, so I knew her bladder was holding urine! And yesterday I found her urethra! Ya, sounds weird huh! You'd just have to see to understand. Anyway, knowing all this, we decided that getting the cleanest urine sample meant to cath!
So we did.
And we got it. We got her bladder. We got urine! : D  SUPER HUGE BIG AWESOME HAPPY SMILEY FACE!!!
This is great news! I literally almost jumped up and down I was so excited! Not only did we get her bladder, not only did we get urine, but we got 10 CC OF URINE, and the nurse actually stopped before her bladder was empty, so that's even better! She's holding AT LEAST 10cc of urine, most likely more! WOOHOO! Really, that's so awesome and I couldn't be happier!
The downside to all this is yes, BrynLee has another infection. She got a shot today and has to start up antibiotics again tomorrow and we'll touch base with her urologist on where to go from here. To stay on the same prophylaxis, or change to something else. Something stronger! I believe what she is on now is as strong as they can go, but I may be wrong! We'll know more in a few days!
I just hope my sweet baby starts feeling better! I can't wait to have my happy little monkey back! :)