MEDICAL UPDATE:

We saw the doctor yesterday afternoon. Her urine test results still weren't back, and because Angelie's throat and ears were still clear she said "Go to CHEO". (CHEO is the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.)

I drove home and called Ed. He definately wanted to come along so we waited for him and packed snacks and books and things to take with us. We were at CHEO by 3:45 I think. We were in the waiting room until about 8pm, then in a curtained off observation area after that. The Resident on duty ordered chest x-rays and blood work, and then hours and hours later decided to do another urine test (involves a plastic bag with sticky-tape on it, applied directly to her diapered area to catch the sample). After a while and Angelie hadn't peed (she may have been withholding because it hurt to pee, though we hadn't seen evidence of that before this) a more experienced senior nurse inserted a catheter for a sterile sample. There was a bit of a resident-vs-nurse drama when the resident asked the nurse "what possessed you to do that". Nurse had explained that if the "dip" (a litmus test dipped into the urine) from the bagged sample came back positive for bacteria, they would have had to insert a catheter anyway to get a sterile sample for the lab which would also mean waiting longer for her little bladder to fill up again. So we killed two birds with one stone and the gamble paid off. Within half-an-hour we had the results back. Positive for bladder infection.

The Resident wanted to keep her overnight and give her antibiotics by IV, but the staff doctor on duty decided that because she had no other symptoms and was comfotable when her fever was kept down, that he'd send us home with a prescription for oral antibiotics. She has to take Septra for 14days and was given first dose there before we left. We were out the door by 1:30am.

Ed decided to find a 24 hour pharmacy to get her prescription filled so I wouldn't have to bundle her up and run out do it this morning especially since we were out so late and we were all tired. So after visiting 4 closed pharmacies, we found an open one. We weren't home until after 3am.

Angelie had a very rough day yesterday. She doesn't take well to strangers as it is, and every stranger that came near her yesterday held her down screaming to take a temperature, blood work, or insert a catheter. She was even stuck in a plastic tube with her hands above her head for the x-ray. She kept saying "all done" just as they'd start a test. And then she cried anytime a nurse or doc poked their head inside our curtain. Poor girl. She was really tired. We all are. Slept in til after 10am this morning.

Our family doctor called this morning to tell me the first urine test results are back (why does it take so long when the hospital had the results in 30 mins - does the hospital have access to fancy new technology too expensive for the regular lab?). Anyway because the test results were (obviously) positive she wanted to see how it went at CHEO and make sure we'd gone in and been seen. She'll send me a form to have another urine test done in two weeks, when Angelie's finished the antibiotics, just to be sure it's gone.

So Angelie is (hopefully) on her way to recovery, finally. Her fever doesn't seem to be spiking as quickly or as high, and that was after just the first dose of antibiotic. We're to watch though for 48hours to make sure her fever is coming down and not getting worse, to watch it hasn't spread to her kidneys. If the fever is not gone pretty much by Saturday we are to take her back to CHEO.

Now I'm off to take a nap while Angelie's napping.