Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Another UTI


So, we are battling yet another UTI here. After a few seizures last weekend, her nurse texted me on Sunday while we were at church that she had just had a lot of blood in her urine. I was already planning to take a urine sample to the lab that Monday because of the seizures, but that of course confirmed that. I called first thing last Monday, got a sample to the lab, and started antibiotics. It grew pseudomonas again (Yuck, that's a bad one!). We didn't get word that it was pseudomonas until Thursday night, and she saw her urologist on Friday. He does not agree with that antibiotic to treat that bacteria (which I questioned 3 times last time she had this and was assured it was fine), so we took a sample to the lab on Friday to get retested to see if it was killing the bacteria. After a SUPER frustrating time at the lab, they still did not follow the orders to culture the urine, so we had to take another sample back to them this Monday. I spent hours on the phone trying to figure out the issue (still not sure what happens each time we need a urine culture and why it's so hard to get one actually done). So, we should know tomorrow if it's clearing up, and where to go from here.

In the meantime, we had a BLAST this past weekend taking a family vacation trip ALL TOGETHER to Great Wolf Lodge! Pics from that to come...!

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