First ER Trip

08/30/2011

Time to get ready for bed and Arya starts saying "Mommy it hurts when I pee" My first thought ofcourse is "please not a UTI". 2nd thought - hmm is this one of her ploys to not go to bed? because she finds reasons to not go into bed - one of them being "I want to go to timeout" Yes, my daughter wants to go to time out if she does not want to sleep.. things kids think of..

Well, we get teeth brushed, night time diaper on and head to bed. She lays down and then gets up and says "it hurts mommy". Now she is also pointing to her lower back too. Deepoo and I talk about it and decide to call her pediatrician. The Ped. says to take her to the Urgent care and ofcourse with our luck, the urgent cares here close at 9:00 pm. So we head to the Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite ER. Arya in the mean time keeps complaining a little that it still hurts.

By the time we get to the ER and they take a Urine sample she was in a lot of pain. There have been very very few times in my life where I have felt utterly helpless - this was the worst of those. She was cringing in pain and there was nothing I could do to make her feel better. I have had UTIs and wouldnt wish the pain on my enemy even.. uummm maybe I would..

But finally the urinalysis comes back and confirms that Arya has a UTI. They give her some motrin and we head out with a prescription for the antibiotic. The ER PA gave us a list of 24hour pharmacies in that area, but we thought that we can pick something up from the Walgreens or CVS near home. Oh well, once we got close to home we found out that no all Walgreens and CVS are 24 hours. After 1 some searching we found a CVS not too far away from home that is open. So back home at 3:00 am Arya got her first dose of anitbiotic and the whole time she would wake up and scream in pain every time she peed in her diaper. This really sucked.

We didnt sleep much for the rest of the night because Arya kept waking up in pain. All this happened in the week when we are all sick - down with a cold. She was up at 6am and didnt want to go back to sleep. So I woke up with her and got some things done and Deepoo slept for a few hours and then he woke up and took care of things while I took a couple of hours nap.

I took the day off and slept with Arya and we watch Tom and Jerry together ...

Seeing her in the pain that even adults find it hard to endure and not being able to do anything was one of the worst experiences of my life.