It’s never ending … truly it’s not.
On Tuesday we got a call from Katie, Dr. Mello’s physician assistant. Olivia’s urine test came back as having containments in it. She figured it was just from poor wiping (hey, she’s 3!) – so we were referred to Dr. Friedman’s office for a followup.
Today was our appointment. I didn’t think much of it and off we went. We did the “three wipe, then pee” test and she had a lot of white blood cells in her urine :(. Dr. Friedman said we were dealing with a UTI and to have a seat. Immediately I knew this wasn’t going to be good.
Due to her concerns for Olivia’s long and short term health – she wanted us to go in for a test that will check for renal reflux. They’ll do an U/S as well to make sure everything is where it should be (including looking for a spleen).
Olivia is now taking her normal amoxicillian for lack of spleen AND bactium (sp?) for the UTI. Somehow they got us an appointment with radiology for TOMORROW at 12:30pm to have this test done – and whether or not we’ll have surgery on March 24 will depend on the results of tomorrow and Dr. Mello’s opinion based on whether or not we need to have this resolved before surgery.
Olivia is oblivious to everything (thankfully). Arnie and I are tentatively hopeful that this is just a UTI – because she’s not showing ANY signs of reflux (no recurring UTIs, no frequent urination, and no fevers). BUT, it’s just a rollercoaster ride that we just want off of. We want to know that we’re going in for surgery on March 24. We want life to be “normal” again – we want normalcy again. It’s amazing quickly life changes …
I appreciate and respect Dr. Friedman’s cautiousness. She’s looking out for Olivia. She’s been doing that since Day 1 and we love her for that. She said “we just love Olivia” (sob). As I was waiting for the orders for the hospital to be faxed she came over and said “Do you need valium?” LOL. I said “no, I’m good” and then she hugged me. I know she loves that little girl as much as we do and appreciates how much Olivia has taught all of us.
So tomorrow we’re heading back to the hospital for a couple hours. Please pray this is NOTHING because I’m not sure I can deal with a setback at this point.