As I mentioned before, my daughter "M" was born 13 weeks early. When I was 24 weeks pregnant I went to what I thought was just a normal prenatal checkup and next thing I knew I was on a helicopter. I didn't even know I was in labor, wasn't it supposed to hurt? They were able to slow the contractions that I didn't even know I was having, and by the grace of God, and some amazing doctors and learning to eat soup laying down so I didn't have to sit up for any reason I was able to keep M in for another three weeks. You want to know what love is? Love is having a husband and mother in law wiping your butt for you because you aren't even allowed to do that yourself, it's not pretty folks. The first thing you learn when dealing with pre-term labor is every hour, day, week, counts, I truly believe if she had come at 24 weeks, she would not be here with us today. M spent 92 days in the hospital, we had some serious road blocks, but she overcame everything that was thrown at her, and right now, less than 2 months away from her 3rd birthday, she is a normal healthy child, with one exception.
M has something called Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR for short). You can "Google it" for all the finer details, but in short, it is the back flow of urine from the bladder to the kidneys. This makes her very prone to urinary tract infections. Because M was getting a lot of infections we chose to have corrective surgery about 6 weeks ago, unfortunately she has had 2 infections since then. They placed stents when the surgery was performed to help keep things open while she healed and we are thinking this might be contributing to the current infections, good news, they are scheduled to come out on Tuesday.
Bad news, my saint of a mother in law, seriously guys, she's awesome (see butt wiping above) and my father in law, also pretty great, watch M for us during the day so we don't have to have her in daycare, my MIL calls me at work yesterday to tell me M doesn't seem to be feeling good. I go pick her up and discover she has a 102 degree fever, just great. My first thought "UTI" but there is no way, she is on a super powerful antibiotic to prevent infections until the stents come out. This morning she wakes up with a stuffy nose and at this point I am thinking she just has a cold. The problem, if she is running a fever and has a cold they can't do the stent removal procedure, if they can't remove the stents she is more likely to get yet another UTI, if she gets a UTI and runs a fever they can't remove the stents...you see where I am going with this? I am pumping her full of Tylenol and elderberry syrup to give her an immune boost to hopefully help her get over this before Monday. This is her first cold of the winter, hopefully it is short lived. Positive thoughts for a speedy recovery welcomed!
Joy*
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