the surgery & an infection ... boo

Okay before I tell you about her surgery and infection let me just say I've got a bone to pick with some of you! I put up THE CUTEST video of Clover laughing and only a couple of people commented on how cute she is. That will not do, so before you read the rest of this post you must scroll down and watch the video of the cutest little girl in the whole world laughing!! DO IT!!

Okay, I hope if you're reading this you watched the video. On with the update :)
First things first . THE SURGERY .
It went well considering that we had to do a surgery. We had to be there 5:30am again, but that's actually a good thing because she isn't allowed to eat 4 hours prior to surgery. So at 5:30am she is still pretty tired. The surgery was a success, the urine is flowing good out of the little incision. The incision is about an inch long and at first looked really gruesome, but now that it's cleaned up and has had a couple of days to heal it looks good. We had to stay overnight in a room with 2 others patients ... NOT FUN! Let me tell you. And Brian wasn't allowed to stay with me AND I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom in the room because it is for patients only. Of course at 3am when I really needed to go to the bathroom and I'm by myself with my baby, I did use the "restricted" bathroom. But only once!!! :) We were discharged before noon with a prescription for antibiotics for a little while longer and a Neosporin type cream that I need to put on the hole ... now THAT is gross. I don't like touching it, it gives me the willies. ESPECIALLY when I'm about to put it on and Clover pushes her butt up in the air making me touch it when I wasn't expecting it... ewwwww. :)
Clover did great though. She didn't sleep well the first night but only because she wasn't swaddled and when she isn't swaddled she is C-R-A-Z-Y! So I held her most the night. We only had to give her Tylenol twice, once the day after and once 2 days after. You wouldn't even know she had surgery. The day after she was already trying to roll over onto her stomach and stand up and push up against you. She's amazing!

The whole next day I was going around jumping and singing about how we are done! no more infections! whoo hoo a normal life!

..... BUT THEN .....

The Lord had other plans, He was like "Kenzie, you still have a lot more to learn!"

Yesterday, Saturday. She was really fussy and her urine was yellowish (which it is supposed to be clear) and it stank. Oh no ... not another ........ BLADDER INFECTION!! The day before the surgery her urine started smelling just a little bit, but she had no other symptoms. I called the surgeon and pediatrician and they said that as long as she didn't have a fever we could do surgery. The day of surgery, they tested her urine before to check and it came back negative for infection. Well yesterday when I called the hospital the surgeon told me that her urine cultures eventually grew a bacteria. And what bacteria is that, you ask? Psuedomonas, AGAIN! NOOO! I thought we would have to go back to the hospital for a 10 day stay again. But the doctor said that the first time we had this bacteria it was resistant against the oral antibiotics, but this one isn't. So we were able to get a oral antibiotic for her and stay home. I've got to say though, usually when I'm right it feels good, but now I always hope I'm wrong and just being paranoid! So here we are, dealing with infection again. Although yesterday was rough, she had a fever of 100.1 all day and night, so she cried and cried and cried and slept and slept and slept. ugh .. I'm exhausted just remembering it. But her fever broke last night and she's back to normal today. YAY!No worries though, just because she has an infection, it is not going to affect her incision at all. We will see the doctor hopefully this week just to be sure and check up with him since he was on vacation and didn't do our surgery.

The picture to the left is how Clover is repaying me for taking her to the hospital so much.

All this has taught me so much though. I've really had to mature and grow up to be the mommy I need to be for Clover. He's teaching me patience, trust, strength, courage, how to call and ask questions (which I HATE doing), and how to do things myself that I don't want to do and usually pass off to Brian :) (sorry Brian). But I'm still learning and there's still a lot more sanctification that needs to happen. Thank you everyone for praying, you don't know how encouraging it is to hear! Please keep them coming, we aren't done yet :)