...and it just keeps coming.

So we left the hospital thinking 7 days of antibiotics and life goes back to normal. Monday John leaves with our stuff and Wednesday Olivia and I fly out. Well looks like that's not quite how it's going to work out.

Monday we left the hospital. We were told she needed to take antibiotics for the next 7 days and have a follow up appointment in a few days and they sent us on our way.

Fast forward to today at her appointment. Her pediatrician asked me if they went over the results of the ultrasound. I thought about it, and they hadn't. With all the craziness I figured if they didn't say anything it had come back normal. Well turns out it didn't. He proceeded to tell me that her left kidney was inflamed. They told us she had a UTI, urinary tract infection. In my mind when I hear UTI I think Bladder infection, no big deal. Well turns out she has a kidney infection. About 70% of babies that get kidney infections have something called VUR, basically their urine backs up into their kidney from their bladder, which causes an infection. Not good. If nothing is done she could keep getting infections which would damage her kidney. So what does this all mean!?!?!

Next Thursday I have to take Olivia in to get a VCUG. With a catheter they will put a type of dye in her bladder. Using an x-ray they will see if that fluid goes up into her kidneys. If it doesn't she's all good, it was an isolated kidney infection, no big deal.

If it shows that it does move up into the kidney then she will have to go on a low dose of antibiotics everyday until she outgrows it, that's the good thing most kids do outgrow it. But it could take awhile for her to outgrow it. And she will need ultrasound every few months to make sure it is not getting worse,

If she doesn't outgrow it, she would need surgery to fix it. The doctor really doesn't think it's bad enough for surgery because it was only one kidney that was inflamed and the inflammation wasn't too severe.

So we are hoping for the best, and I'm preparing for the second worst (constant antibiotics), because I can't even imagine my baby girl needing surgery sometime in the next few years.

There are a lot of things about it that worry me. Will she build up an immunity to the antibiotics? Will her kidney become damaged and cause her issues her whole life? Will I always freak out when she gets a fever and worry something is wrong with her kidney? What if she does end up needing surgery?

But I shouldn't worry about those things. They are all unlikely and will only cause me stress.

For now we wait for next Thursday to come and hope for the best. And look forward to joining John in Utah, whenever that may be.