As my dear friend Angela is constantly reminding me "Do not pray for patience or God will help you by exercising your skills." So this week I did not pray for patience but I did my best to practice my patience. I spent Sunday evening in the ER with Sary because she had 103.5 fever and was complaining of abdominal pain. It was on the right side so I was afraid it was appendicitis but when I got to the ER they seemed to think that a urinary tract infection was more likely for a girl her age. Her pee came back normal and we moved on to focusing on her appendix. In the mean time they started an IV and took some blood. (both of these were a first for Sary).
She handled it like a rockstar. Sary was so well behaved she charmed all the nurses and techs. She was quite adorable in her rainbow pants with her rainbow build-a-bear and her light up stride-rite shoes.
She had an ultrasound and they couldn't see the appendix. Then we moved onto a CAT scan which required her to drink contrast, and have some contrast injected through her IV and she had to be sedated. The nurse told the Dr that she was sucha good patient that she didn't need sedation but the Dr insisted. The CAT scan came back clear.
The Dr determined that there was no need for surgery and that she had a virus and should be seen by her Pediatrician the next day.
I must have been quite the sight scooping up my sedated 3 year old that is more than half my height, lugging her to the car, looking worse coming out of the ER than she did going in. I was so overwhelmed that I forgot her discharge papers in the exam room.
The medication they used to sedate her made her sick over night and in the morning.
On Monday morning when we went to the Pediatricians office Dr P looked at the results from the CAT and said there was fluid in her lungs. She listened to her lungs and her crackling and wheezing. She determined that Sary had early pneumonia and that the abdominal pain was referred pain from her lungs. Just when I thought I was going to start getting into a groove with this whole going back to work on a project thing Sary gets pneumonia!
I spent Monday with Sary and she spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Nana's while I went into the office. She was so sad about being sick she cried herself to sleep Tuesday night. She wanted me to stay with her so bad on Wednesday that I almost turned around and came back home. But we were both strong.
Here we are we made it to Thursday. Dr P says there is a little crackling left in her lungs but she is on the mend. I am home with her and Piper for the next four days. Thankful once again that I get to spend more than 50% of my week with my babies.
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