A quick update

It's been a while since I last posted. It has been a really busy last couple weeks. I've been working on a secret scrapbook (which I will post pictures of when it is no longer a secret!), keeping up with the Holidays and getting ready for Christmas, and having one sickie after another. A few ER visits, more than our share of doctor visits, tylenol, antibiotics, and tests we are now 2 weeks from Christmas and feeling like we might survive-and maybe even survive well.

For Katelyn's first Thanksgiving she was on antibiotics that made her not feel very well. But we managed to celebrate with 3 other couples until one o'clock in the morning! Around 7pm that evening Katelyn came down with the stomach "flu" on top of all her other sicknesses/medicines...and I just felt so bad for my girl!

A couple days ago-finally of the antibiotics-we had a check up to make sure her UTI infection (and cause of 2 ER trips and numerous Dr visits) was gone. It WAS! But we were reccomended to go to Rapid City to have testing to make sure her kidneys and bladder were working properly. At first we were not going to do it, but then the very next day her fever came back AND I remembered that while I was pregnant, on ultrasound it showed something that made the doctors nervous then that her bladder had some blockage or some other problem. Eventually, after another ultrasound 10 weeks later, they decided it was probably okay, but told me to be aware of it. Between those 2 things we decided to take her to have the tests done. Why not? I mean, we almost met her deductible for a second time this year!!!

The first test was an ultrasound, which she thought was weird...and slightly irritating. The second test they put in a catheter and filled her bladder with fluid and dye and watched through a machine to see how her bladder/kidneys/etc responded. That test was a booger. It took an hour, 2 nurses, and 4 different catheters to get it in. All the while Kate screamed, and mommy wanted to! It was the worst thing I could think of doing to my little girl, and I kept praying that God would just let them get it in. I had decided that if the 4th try didn't work I would say we weren't going to try again. At one point it was as if Kate gave up and said "do what you will" and stopped fighting. I told her, NO you keep fighting baby girl! You never give up! It's heartbreaking to see your baby "give up" like that. She wasn't "down" long though before she started fighting again. At the end of the test the doctor said "well that's what we like to see!" and it was definitely a relief. We are very hopeful that the tests showed that she is fine!!! We will find out later this week.

Let's just say the last few weeks have been stressful and hard. But we have a lot to be thankful for- it could be MUCH worse than little sicknesses and good reports on all our tests in the last 2 months (MRI, EKG, etc for me!) Sometimes I wonder if I should have done the tests on Katelyn, but I constantly come back to the peace of mind we have, and that I couldn't live with myself if there was something wrong and we didn't check it out!