Update on Annelise, the almost birthday girl!
We decided to take her to the ER last night, but we're now home watching her closely.❤🙏
We first noticed a high heart rate of up and down from 130's to 150's (her resting baseline is 100-110's) when we hooked her up to her pulse oximeter for her nap. I was really surprised since she had been acting like her normal self. I didn't have any idea that something was going on.
She didn't have a fever then, but the next day on Saturday, her temp slowly crept up and her heartrate was still staying high, so we called the on-call urologist, thinking that it is likely a UTI. The resident we spoke with recommended a trip to the ER just to get more eyes on her and more tests available. We like to catch things early if possible, and definitely don't want to miss anything important if we can help it, so we thought that was a good plan.
We had to wait for an ER bed, they were very busy, but so thankful they had us wait in an inner hallway instead of the regular ER waiting room.
The did a urinalysis and viral panel. Both of those came back negative. There's a chance she could still have a UTI, the lab will continue to test for a couple more days. That's what happened with the UTI she had at 6 months old. Initially it said no problem, then we went to the ER that weekend and she was positive then.
Since we don't have a real direction to point any antibiotics at.... we agreed with the ER doctor's plan to send her home, and watch her here. If her symptoms get worse, we can always go back, and worse symptoms would hopefully also give us more help to determine where the problem is in her body. Already today, she has been sleeping a lot, but is more playful and smiley than she was yesterday. Heartrate is still elevated, but not nearly as high as yesterday. She actually started to perk up while in the ER. She started reaching for toys again, and smiling again. That was just after one dose of tylenol.
We are grateful for the improvement and praying she'll kick whatever it is without more intervention needed.❤🙏
Thankful for easy access to medical care. Grateful for healthcare providers that treat Annelise so well and show up to do these intense ER jobs! Blessed to have family praying for us while I was too busy being the only parent allowed in the ER to update fb at the time. Kevin waited in the parking lot even though he couldn't come in. He is the best! Wanted to give you all the run down of our day! I'm hoping she will be back to her 100% long before her birthday party. We'll do whatever she needs to get better. If we end up back in the ER, that will be ok too. God knows all of our days, and like He has every time before, He'll provide what we need everyday.
I hope you all are staying well!
