We had quite the turn of events last week with Rachel. I'll try to keep it to the short and simple version, rather than share with you every detail of her medical history. Rachel came down with a high fever - I took her to our pediatrician's office on day 1 to make sure it wasn't her ears, and it wasn't, so they told me to come back on day 4 if she still had a fever. We took her in again and they couldn't determine what was wrong, so they told me that if she still had a fever by day 5 that I should take her to Children's Memorial Hospital. We spent the entire afternoon in the ER and she had her blood drawn and a catheter (not our idea of great fun exactly). Then they let us know that she had a urinary tract infection (poor thing!) and told us that they wanted her to stay in the hospital overnight. The antibiotics are taking care of the UTI very nicely and we luckily only had to stay in the hospital for 24 hours. We'll have a follow up visit with the urologist next week to make sure everything is going good. Rachel seems back to her normal, happy self.Pictured above: Rachel with her IV - tears and all :(
Daddy's always good for some comic relief. She had this spaceship-cage-crib and daddy got in there with her for a quick picture.
There's a smile. She's such a trooper and was so brave throughout this whole ordeal!
The arm cover is so they don't pull at the IV. A bit bulky for nighttime, but we tried to keep our complaints to a minimum.
Later in the week, she had to get a test done and had to be strapped down like this for 1 hour and 45 minutes - yikes! Luckily, she fell asleep for the first 45 minutes and then we watched Baby Einstein for the rest (in the picture, the DVD screen is above the machine and she is holding my little purse calendar, which has a kitty on it). She was SO good compared to how I imagined it going.
Daddy's always good for some comic relief. She had this spaceship-cage-crib and daddy got in there with her for a quick picture. 
There's a smile. She's such a trooper and was so brave throughout this whole ordeal! 
The arm cover is so they don't pull at the IV. A bit bulky for nighttime, but we tried to keep our complaints to a minimum. 
Later in the week, she had to get a test done and had to be strapped down like this for 1 hour and 45 minutes - yikes! Luckily, she fell asleep for the first 45 minutes and then we watched Baby Einstein for the rest (in the picture, the DVD screen is above the machine and she is holding my little purse calendar, which has a kitty on it). She was SO good compared to how I imagined it going. We're really doing fine now, so nobody needs to worry about us. I just couldn't help posting these pictures of our little princess.
