Hospital Stay Part 2

So after getting you admitted to the hospital we learn that they are worried there might be more to your infection then meets the eye. They decide that because of how swollen your ankle is they want to get an X-Ray and an MRI to see if something more is going on. Well, while they worked out on all the scheduling you had quite a few visitors! Your neighbors the Sorens' came by, your Grammy and Papa, your Uncle Jared and Aunt Jill and Uncle Chris and cousin Kelson! You are a very loved little girl. :)

Well they did the X-ray in your room and then scheduled the MRI for the next morning. Well the Xray just showed swelling, which, hello, was already obvious. The MRI got pushed from 8:30 to 2:45 so your fasting had been for nothing, BUT since it was scheduled for not too much later all you could have were "clear" liquids, so you had some pedialyte, but that seemed to help your grumbly tummy some.

 They finally took you down for your MRI, and since you're just a baby, needed to do some general Anesthesia to make sure you stayed still. WELL the MRI showed there was some fluid in your ankle, but the Dr.'s said they were sure it was just AROUND the joint, not IN the joint. However, just to be sure, they decided you needed an Ultrasound. SO that night we took you down to have an Ultrasound, which again showed a LOT of fluid in your ankle. The Dr.'s decided it was best to put you under anesthesia again to get a biopsy of the fluid. After this they said the liquid was cloudy, instead of clear, but didn't think it was anything too serious. The Dr. let us know the lab would get a reading on it (not really sure how all that works) and then would maybe have you have surgery in the morning if it needed drained.
(So MRI happened 7/18/13)

Well, we never heard anything that night so we went to sleep. At 6 the next morning a hospital transport gentleman came in to take you to surgery. I hadn't heard anything from the Dr. so I asked to speak with one before he took you away. A little bit later your nurse came in saying that the transport had come in because the surgery spot had been reserved, but that no orders had come from the Dr. yet. So we went back to sleep. (Actually, I don't think you woke up for any of this, so just I went back to sleep, haha)

WELL, maybe about 5 minutes later the nurse came back saying the Dr DID want to do surgery and so transport came back for you and we met with the Dr down in pre-op. He said they still weren't convinced it was a joint infection but they wanted to get your ankle drained just to be on the safe side. Your daddy came over to be with me while you were in surgery.
(Surgery happened 7/19/13)

After surgery the Dr met with us to let us know everything went well and you would be waking up soon.

We went in to see you and you were clutching your angel bear still groggy but I was so happy to get to see you!

 Your Ankle Pre- Surgery

Getting to see you right after surgery

So we got to go back to your room and there we stayed for a few more days. You started to feel much better on Sunday when your fever went away. I don't remember much from Saturday, so I suppose not much happened besides monitoring your progress. OH and your Grammi and Grumpy Siepert and Auntie Nicole came to see you!! You were in such a good mood when they stopped by, you played and did your new trick, which was nodding your head, and were just full of smiles and giggles!

Sunday was another day of just sitting around making sure you were doing okay. Your Uncle Jared and Grammy and Papa Parrish were frequent visitors. And of course your Grammi and Grumpy Siepert and Aunt Nicole came to see you again before having to go back home. (I don't have pictures of that now, they have the pictures on their phones/ipads)

Also on Sunday they removed your soft cast to take out the drain on your foot. At this point they did tell us that your joint was infected as well as your blood had been infected. They told us as soon as you went 48 hours with negative blood cultures we'd be able to go home, so we knew at that point that it wasn't going to be Monday like we were hoping.

Well, I guess there is going to be a part 3 because it seems like there's still so much to tell and I'm getting sleepy!

Love you Princess!!

Hospital Stay

Dear Jyzelle,

Well, my dear sweet baby girl the past week has not been so good to you. On Saturday July 13th we went up to Cascade so I could go White Water Rafting with your Aunt Kimberly an PaPa, you stayed at the campsite with Grammi Parrish. Well while I was on the river Grammi noticed you started to get a bit fussy and very clingy. When we got home that night you continued to be very clingy and fussy so we put you to bed early thinking you were just tired and maybe teething.

Well on Sunday you would do nothing but lay on my chest, which is VERY unusual for you. You love to play and move around and explore EVERYTHING! Well, as we were getting you ready for church I noticed that you wouldn't put your right foot down. Dad and I then started thinking back through the day and realized that anytime your foot got moved you would get upset and cry. We then noticed how much you were favoring it and that it was swollen and a little red.

We were going to try to go to Sacrament meeting anyway but you seemed to get worse so decided to take you to the Urgent Care instead. We weren't sure what had happened, I thought you might have twisted/sprained your ankle, your Grammi thought you had a bug bite from the lake that got infected. The PA at the Urgent Care had you get it X-rayed. The X-ray came back normal, but seeing you favor your right foot so much he wrapped it up anyway and told us to follow up with your Dr. on Monday.

Well after this we started noticing your fevers and so decided it must be an infection of some sort. We went to see your Dr. on Monday and she agreed about the infection and gave you the antibiotic Cephalexin and drew a line around the redness on your ankle so we could see if it got worse. We then went home and I just cuddled you all day and pretty much all day Tuesday as well. It was hard to see you not want to play or do anything, but I was glad that you wanted me to comfort you as best as I could.

On Wednesday July 17, 2013 we again followed up with your doctor. You still had a fever over 102 and the redness had moved down your foot. She suggested we go to the ER so they could run tests more quickly then she could there in the clinic.

When we got the ER they got your right back to a room, took a look at your ankle and took notice of your fever and went to work to get some blood work and get you on an IV. They got a poke in your hand and got the blood out but couldn't get your vein to open up (I think I'm remembering/saying that right) to have the IV go there so they tried your foot. Again they could not get your vein to cooperate so they then had another nurse come try. It still took some time but finally they got an IV in your hand and let me just say that was so hard to sit through to watch you cry so much. I might have cried a little too :(

They then decided to keep you for 24 hours so you can continue on the IV antibiotic and make sure you were getting better. (This didn't happen)

Well, I'll finish this later, there's still a lot to go.

I love you my princess!

Love, Mama