My poor little K

It seems the infection is not going and this morning K visited the emergency room.

Hang on, let me go back a bit.

So this all started last Sunday night around supper.

I took K to the GP on Monday and we started her on an anti-biotic and Bactroban (?).

I like things to happen quickly, even health, so I expected her to be better in two days tops. How long are these things supposed to last?

By the way, I've never had a bladder or similar infection so I have NO idea what it's like. The GP told me I'm "lucky".

I texted the GP again on Thursday to check if things were supposed to take this long (K hasn't been in school the whole week - we didn't want her to have to go pee every 2 minutes and wet herself with all the psycological damage that would have entailed - she's a sensitive little soul) and she said it's okay as long as K's not worse.

Well, she wasn't worse.

 

The anti-biotics were done on Friday at supper and last night she was practically perfect, back to her normal tricks.

We even discussed the theme of the week, etc, assuming she's going back to school tomorrow.

Well.

This morning she was SCREAMING "my pee is sore" every 10 seconds. It was terrible. For all of us.

Connor gets so upset when his sister cries like that and then we have to ignore him to attend to her.

I said to him at one point, "it's hard being a twin, hey?" and he said, "yes". Poor sausage!

Louisa, do you recognise this staircase?

At 10 D and K set off for the ER because I couldn't take it anymore. D thought we were all going to go but I said no way am I exposing my healthy child to germs and also he is stressed. He needs some normalcy in his life so he and I went to church as usual.

Connor says to me, "we're going to go and I'm going to throw in my coins (offering) and then we're coming straight home". "Uh, no, Baby, we're going to stay, but great that you're planning your offering" (I'm also trying to get them to think about being BIG givers because I had years of having to recondition my brain that God is a God of abundance and it's good for me to give BIG gifts)

When we got back, the house was quiet - D and K both sleeping - and after I fed Connor lunch, he asked me to go have a nap - not him at all - I think he was emotionally wrung out because he was a lot quieter than he normally is.

D told me he woke Connor after 2 hours 15 (3 sleep cycles) because by then, I'd fallen asleep too (I'm also emotionally stressed), also for over 2 hours.

 

So K's on another anti-biotic and Nurofen.

All prayers welcome because I'm not good with sick people! Also, I keep having flashbacks to 2011 when after the second course of antibiotics, she was hospitalised...

The school charges R100 per day if Connor stays from 12:30 til I can go get him. On one hand, my time is worth more than R100 an hour to fetch him and take him home BUT since his sister is not there, I feel kind of done out. Does that make sense? Full day for the month costs only R500 extra which at this rate, we'll get to on Wed.

I really just want my little girl who likes to make me laugh back!

Tonight she told me I made silly salad because I put some peas in :) Don't you know peas don't belong in a salad? :)

 

But how was your Sunday?

PS my weekend was still quite productive.
PPS I haven't had a post with 100 page views since 22 Feb. EEEK - go get a nice cup of tea and click through to catch up :)