An Update on Ella Kate

I posted earlier that we were taking Ella Kate back to Vanderbilt last Monday and had planned on spending the night on Sunday and doing all kinds of things. Well, our plans got changed when Ella Kate woke up Sunday morning and sounded congested. We decided not to drag her all over Nashville and make the trip on Monday morning. We got up Monday and she still sounded congested, but was running no fever and didn't really act like she felt bad so off we went to Vanderbilt. The Dr. set her surgery for Feb. 26th. She'll be in the hospital for 2 or more nights and then out of commission for about 2-4 weeks. He will have to make an incision and reroute tubes from her kidneys to her bladder. Here is a picture of her before we left that morning.
After we left Vanderbilt we decided that she didn't sound too bad so we took her to Cool Springs to have her picture made with Santa. They requested you use no personal photography equipment so I have no pictures of her with Santa except for the $30.00 package I bought!!! So here are some of her after the picture. By the way, she LOVED Santa!
By the time we started home I got a little concerned with her breathing so I called her pediatrician and we took her right in. They gave her a breathing treatment and thought it was just a chest cold. Fast forward to Wednesday. I got her up Wednesday morning and got her ready for daycare. I thought she sounded a little worse, but still no fever and she still acted fine. I went on and took her to daycare. At 12:45 they called me and said she had been asleep since 9AM and had just gotten up and sounded terrible. I called the pediatrician again and took her right in. This time they tested her for RSV and guess what? She tested positive! Bless her heart, I felt terrible. So in the house is where we've been since last Wednesday and where we'll stay until this Wednesday when she can go back to daycare. She had really bad days Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Yesterday was pretty good and so far today has been ok. I think she is on the mend now. There is nothing worse than a sick baby (except for maybe a sick husband-HA,HA!).
Well, she just woke up from a nap so until next blog, see ya! Love, Amy