Long days, longer nights

Well, its Monday, Day 3 in the hospital (technically day 4 if you count the day down in ER, and WE DO!) No more fever since Friday night, so the past two days have been uneventful, just waiting. The cultures came back as expected; nothing grew in blood or spinal fluid, but negative gram rods grew in urine, confirming the infection, The absence of bacteria in her blood and spinal fluid means that the infection did not spread to other parts of her body. The first overnight, both baby and Mom slept well, due to exhaustion. The second overnight wasn't as good with baby really fussy and clingy, but we made it through, despite the frequent pokes and prods from the nurse every 2 hours or so! Last night was better. Cailynn was not so fussy, but still only slept on Mom, so I slept better, but by far not well. But Moms are used to functioning on little sleep so its no big deal really.

Which brings us to today. The plan is to be home by dinner. The DMSA scan (kidney function test) was ordered for today, but not yet scheduled. I was told they usually do inpatient testing in the morning, so hopefully we will know by 9am when we go. There is a 2 hour wait time between the injection and the imaging. We also expect our urologist to come by today too. He's got the final word on our discharge, but the doctors here don't see any reason to keep her here longer.

Hopefully our next post will be from home!!