Sick Sick Sick

At the doctors so so sick!

It all started Friday, December 7th after school Ashlyn told me she wasn't feeling very well so I had her just rest thinking she was just tired. Well we had planned to go with Thuesons to see the Christmas lights at temple square and we were about to head out the door and Ashlyn all the sudden looked at me and said she really didn't feel good and headed to the bathroom. She had the flu that whole night and through Saturday. Then Saturday evening she started looking even worse with a 104 degree temperature we could not get down. Then Tuesday came and she was still running the 104 temperature and was so weak, I could tell she wasn't getting any better so I decide that afternoon to take her to the doctor. We went into the doctor and they checked her out and ran a couple of tests for bladder infection, flu, pneumonia, and a strep test. The doctor had us go to the hospital after the in office tests were coming back normal to get more tests and xrays. After being at the hospital for forever doing tons of tests. We headed home and the doctor said she would call us once she looked over the xrays and the other tests results come back. We got a call late that night and everything came back fine which just baffled the doctor and me! She said to see how she does through the night and if not any better in the morning call. We also were still waiting on the UTI results. So we were quite frustrated that the doctor couldn't find what was wrong and obviously something was. That evening and all through the night she was in lots of pain and just so sick! In the morning I called and they needed to see her right away! When we went back in and she was so sick she couldn't even walk or sit up for the doctor to look at her. She had now had a 104 temp since Saturday and it was now late Thursday afternoon! We ended up back in the hospital for blood testing and they were really worried about how dehydrated she was! She hadn't gone to the bathroom for a day and a half at this point. They were thinking at this point kindey infection or a blood bacterial infection. So these blood tests were going to show us if there was a bacteria infection then they would need to switch medications to fight the weird bacteria in her blood. They now ruled out kidney infection. I now was starting to freak out...here I was back at the hospital wheeling my little 6 year old around getting all these tests done and nothing was being found! We had to once again go home with no answers waiting through another night to get the results again! Brandon had had it by now and called the doctor and in kind of a nice way chewed them out for dragging this on for so long! It was now Friday and it was the waiting day so my body decided to tell me I was going to have a horrible sinus infection! To top it all off I was sick so I went to the doctor and sure enough it was..yeah one more thing! Ashlyn actually was starting to feel better and she woke up with NO FEVER!!! She would be up for a couple hours at a time now and play sitting up on the couch then she would have a little nap. This was huge improvement so we were keeping our fingers crossed the medications she was taking were starting to work! To make things even more complicated we were supposed to be leaving for Brandon's company cruise Saturday morning for a week! I was not going anywhere if Ashlyn was still as bad as she was and not getting any better! Brandon called to see if we could change our flight to the Sunday red eye instead of Saturday morning and the airline was saying it would be $700! Yikes we didn't really want to pay that, we were thinking we weren't going to go and just cancel it all together. Then Brandon proceeded to tell the airline it's because we are waiting for some blood tests for our sick daughter and the guy on the phone was all well that's a medical reason I will change your flight at no cost! We were floored! Maybe things were starting to look up! So Saturday morning came and guess what...Ashlyn woke up and wanted to eat breakfast and get dressed for the day! Yeah she was finally starting to feel better! I could tell in her face that she was starting to get her sparkle back to her! So we finally got a call Saturday afternoon from the doctor saying that the bacteria infection in her blood was not there and it actually was the hospital lab that contaminated her blood test!!!! We were so annoyed and kinda mad! After all this it was the hospitals fault! And that since she was looking and starting to feel better the doctor said it was the right medication and as long as she doesn't get a fever at all today! And whatever she had was finally getting out of her system. I just can't believe this past week I am so grateful for Ashlyn to be feeling better!