On May 5, 2010 my Monkey girl spiked a high fever and had terrible pain and we ended up at the ER with her. Ultimately she ended up at Children's Hospital in Omaha, with pylonephritis (kidney infection). This is a kid who is normally so healthy -- the worst she ever gets is a bad cold once a year and snot nose during allergy season. She was inpatient until May 8th, and then we got to bring her home. She finished her antibiotics on the 16th and yesterday, May 21st -- she starting running a fever again and running to the bathroom constantly again. I took her to the doctor immediately, and they ran a urinalysis which showed lots of gunk, so the Doctor prescribed another round of the same antibiotic she was given upon leaving Childrens. Unfortunately it is not prescribed often, so many pharmacies don't even keep it in stock usually, and I ended up having to call 6 places before I found one that had it. To top of insult with injury, our insurance doesn't pay for it, so my bill was $320. Ouch. My girl had a fever before I left the house to get the med, so I gave her childrens tylenol and my older girl stayed with her. She was great and got her little sister to drink plenty of fluids. Exactly one hour after I had given the tylenol (and I was 35 miles away with the prescription) Big Sis called to tell me Lil Sis had a temp of 102.1 -- up 3 degrees from when I left 1 hour previously. My hubby was 10 minutes ahead of me getting home and we checked her again, fever climbing, and I called our doctor, who told us to head straight for Childrens again -- posthaste. I packed a bag (forgetting stuff, as usual) and we came up. We are inpatient again, suspected pylonephritis again, and right now she is pitifully lying in the bed, trying to watch cartoons, waiting on an ultrasound. This is so hard on a Momma's heart. I am praying that my girl will feel better soon and that the doctors and other medical personnel here will figure out what is happening, why, etc., and help her to heal completely and quickly.
