It is a virus

Today I took Kaeli in to be seen. She has had this mysterious fever for the last 3 weeks or so and it comes and goes, it gets high and then breaks .. but it is ALWAYS there! She has not been eating; pretty much nothing at all and only drinking her milk, which is rice milk and does not have all the nutrients she needs. Last night was it for me with her waking and crying out in pain. She was thrashing herself around like she could not get comfortable or that she was hurting. It was painful for Mike and I to watch her, helplessly. I made her an appointment and demanded tests done (not that I really had to, the doctor was pretty good). He ordered a urine test and a blood test. I asked if she could have a urine bag instead of a catheter and he was not hip to the idea since we were trying to find an infection. He did not want do a urine bag because the possibility of bacteria getting in there. So, we proceeded with the catheter ... it was traumatic; for both of us! I sat at the top of the bed and held her arms and talked to her while a nurse held her legs and the other tried to get the cath in. Let's just say, Kaeli is a tough one! She is one strong 1 year old. The catheter never did get put in. She got so worked up, she would pee. The only problem was we did not have a 3rd person to hold the cup and try and catch it, so the nurse would have to hurry and try to grab it and get it up under her bum. After a couple of times like this, the nurse assumed Kaeli peed out all that was in there so we would just call it quits. She was so upset, and laying in pee, I picked her up and as I held her she started peeing EVERYWHERE! The nurse had thrown the other cup away, so she had to hurry and grab and open another and caught a tiny bit at the tail end ... literally about a teaspoon worth; but that was all we needed! Yay! No catheter and we got the specimen. Kaeli is no dummy. Next, blood work! They gave her about a 10 minute break and I held her and comforted her. They came in to do the blood work and she went nuts! She did not want anyone touching her AT ALL! They got the blood .. eventually, and off to the lab it went. Urine came back 100% negative, which is awesome, but sad to think we put her through that trauma for no reason (the way a mommy thinks I guess). The blood came back positive for a viral infection. Viral, meaning no medicine to make my little princess feel better! Just motrin every 6 hours and more sleepless nights I am sure. He did say there was an upper respiratory thing going around lasting 6-10 WEEKS, but not sure if that is it. She took about 1.5 hr nap (I was expecting a much longer one after what she just went through) but shortly realised, she just wanted to nap on me .. so she took an additional 2 hours on my chest.

She is in better spirits after a long nap. She will be getting another dose of motrin in an hour and then hopefully off to bed for the night. I just hope she eats soon! She has lost weight since her 1 year check up.

Love to you all!