Renal test came back negative!

We received both good and weird news today. First let me say that Autumn was a TROOPER today. No napping until on the way home at 3:45 and we left the house at 8am! She stayed up and was pleasant as long as we weren't in the middle of tests. Funny tidbit we learned in the middle of the first test that called us back 30 minutes late. She was crying during the ultrasound and we couldn't get her to stop fighting it and wiggling, I noticed recently that singing songs she recognize will make her pay attention to you. Her favorited being the ABC's she is fascinated by the song. We had to start singing the ABC's and she completely stopped crying to look at us singing. How funny are we all in there singing! But it worked she laid still long enough for the pictures to be taken. Second test was a-whole-nother story. Oh my can we put her through anything else please? I really don't think she has endored enough yet. They had to run yet another catheter to get a final urine sample and put the dye in the same way. After they ran the catheter they wrapped her in, I am not sure what they called it now, but it was a swaddle to restrain an infant ......hopefully you know what I am talking about. That was the last thing I was trying to remember today. After her sitting there for about 10 minutes waiting on the doctor and after calming down to play with her paci they start to try to take the x-rays of her kidneys and the dye. They are saying something about not getting it and I really can't hear over Autumn's crying. I am trying everything I can to calm her and it just isn't working. They ask me to give her something to drink to try to stop her from crying everytime they try to take a picture. After they get a few more they stop. They let me hold her while the doctor tells me that in a perfect circumstance her bladder would be quite full from the dye and she would urinate and they would see if something traced back to the kidneys from the bladder. But in Autumn's circumstance her bladder would relief itself just slightly every time it got near full. From what they could see she had no issues and the test was negative! What a relief.
We get to the Pediatrician's office after wasting a few hours eating lunch and shopping and they say we can try to stop the previcid to see if she has reflux anymore and we can stop the amoxicillin since she is negative for the reflux of the bladder. She weighs 20lbs and 28 1/2" tall. Great news all around. They take her blood and we get her dressed. We were checking out knowing we can start some dairy and all looks well scheduling the next appointment for June 5th for her 12 month check up. Then the nurse comes up while we are paying the co-pay to tell us her blood came back anemic and they are going to write down the name of some iron supplements they want her taking daily for 4 weeks then come back for more blood to be drawn. I have no idea why I would have thought we could avoid the doctors for another month.

For now we look at the good being that we can stop two medicines that she likes to take for one that I had to fight her to take tonight. I will keep my fingers crossed that she has no reflux issues when she comes off of the prevacid. I would love for her to go at least a month with no medicines in her body. I will definitely take vitamin supplements over other medications.

We have been off and on high fevers for the last week or so. Poor thing has had a fever every day since Weds. Ranging from 99.6 - 103.2. We went to the after hours for her doctors other location Friday night with the 103.2 asking them if they would just figure out what is going on with her. She has been on an antibiotic for ten days and tylenol and motrin every three hours for days too and still the fever persists. They took another urine sample and said that it is not a kidney infection and that everything else looks and sounds great. That they have no idea what is causing the steady fever but to just keep her on the meds and wait it out. She had to start a round of amoxicillin on Saturday. She stays on the antibiotic now until we have a study of her kidneys done at the Hospital she was born at. They have informed us that any child under the age of 2 that has a possitive UTI accompanied by a high fever has to undergo the study to make sure there is no underlying issues with the kidneys. They are checking for reflux of the bladder. We still have not heard back from the Hospital about scheduling the procedure so we have no idea how long it will be. If these fevers persist then I will call to see if we can speed things along. The prescription for the antibiotic was written for 30 days and I really hope that isn't a sign of how long this will take.
On a good note her two top teeth have poked all the way through now. That and she loves to try to stand on her own. Once she falls she will start to clap and say her version of Yay! Really adorable. I have lots of fun pictures that I need to upload as soon as I get around to it. Tonigt is soccer night. It is an early game so Autumn and I will go with Zack to cheer him on.

First time Swimming