UTI #2

Poor Sydaleigh, on Thursday she started acting as though she might have another UTI...fortunatley this time it happened during the week, so I actually got to take her to the clinic rather than the Urgent Care again. But that is where our fortune ran out. Since Sydaleigh is only 2, and not potty trained, she couldn't pee in a cup as the lab requested to obtain a urine sample; the " pee pee" bags they gave me are not sterile and a complete waste of time as any doctor will tell you; so the only option left, unfortunatly, is a catheter. Oh my. I had no idea how strong my two year old was until it took four people to hold her down to insert the catheter. Poor kid. She was balling, I was balling...it was terrible to put it mildly. This appears to be the second time this week I've traumatized her somehow. First the movie, then the Dr.'s visit.
Well, the doc told me the first results showed no infection so it was best to grow a culture over night. So the following day, now Friday, Sydaleigh is complaining of her pee pee hurting again, but keeps telling me, " Mommy, pee pee coming." She tells me to take her diaper off, which I do, and then she precedes to go into the bathroom and sit on the potty, where she then peed, after about 10 minutes of getting on and off, over and over again. But she PEED ON THE POTTY! Maybe she doesn't have a UTI, maybe this was her attempt to start potty training, misinterpreting the sensation to pee as pain....maybe....maybe not. The doctor called later that afternoon...after I spent the day convinced Syd was ready to start potty training, to find out she does, indeed, have another UTI. Errrrr.
Now the doctor wants to run additional tests to see if Sydaleigh has any urinary tract abnormalities. More tests? Yeah, because the first one went over real well with her! But it appears it will be in her bet interest and she will likely have to have an ultrasound of her bladder, and then be sedated for another test where they determine if her urine is flowing backwards through the bladder. Now we pray for healing, for the present, and the future if need be. There is nothing easy about being a parent sometimes, nor being a child for that matter.