Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The Renal Ultrasound...

...showed nothing remarkable. A good thing, I guess. We're left with a cranky baby whose temperature rises over the course of the day. She didn't seem warm to me today, so I didn't take her temperature but ended up giving her tylenol around 3 anyway because she was so cranky. Tonight, however, before her bath, we checked and her temperature was up to 102.5. So, in went the Motrin.

This episode is different than the others in that she's not been a happy baby, and her fever has risen significantly higher. Last night when we checked her, the temp. had risen to 105.2! We bathed her, gave her some Motrin, and thankfully the temp. came down 2 degrees within a half hour! But, that gave her the "shakes", and we didn't sleep so much last night.

I'll wait to hear from our ped. to see what the next step is. I'm guessing they're going to try to get an actual urine sample to rule out definitively a bladder infection. If that doesn't show anything, I'm thinking they're going to take a blood count to see if that indicates anything.

Please pray for my baby girl. Any parent knows it's no fun to have a miserable, sick baby. And, please pray for the doctors to have wisdom to know how to proceed. Thanks!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

praying praying praying. I am sorry that you and your wee girl are going through this now.

peg said...

praying for all of you! love you!

Kristin said...

Wow Bri...I'm definitely praying! Let me know if there is anything you guys need!

Anonymous said...

I prayed for you all this morning! Poor baby girl!

Audrey said...

Praying for you all, Bri. So glad that you felt God's peace on Monday. You are such an example to me. God is definitely pouring His grace out on you and your dear family.