Krysta

Sorry, I kind of dropped out of the blogging community for a while. It's been a rough couple of months for our family. I'm not going to share all the gory details, but two major things that happened were, first, my grandma, Barbra L. Jensen, died in October, then Scott's grandpa, John D. Jensen, died in December. Interesting, wierd sidenote: Scott's grandpa died on the one year anniversary of my grandpa's (Denmark C Jensen) death and his funeral was on the anniversary of my grandpa's funeral, Dec 23 and Dec 29, respectively.

But I need to catch up Krysta's birthday party, which was in November. We celebrated it at Ryan and Melanie's house up in Genesse, ID, since we were already there for Thanksgiving.

Krysta on her 2nd birthday. We celebrated it at my brother and sister-in-law's (Ryan and Melanie's) house in Genessee, ID. Here is the cutest cake that her Aunt Melanie decorated, a pink and a purple balloon.

I made this pinata. It was a red car. Krysta was really into cars at the time. Here she is, having a go at it. It was a pretty big hit with all the cousins.

Also, Krysta had a wierd illness last month. She got septicemia. Her fever had been around 104 F all day, (which the dr said was NOT A PROBLEM) and she'd thrown up that morning. I took her into the dr that morning, and they did lots of tests, none of which came up positive. They said it was probably just a virus and to give her Tylenol for her fever. That night, Scott and our home teacher gave her a priesthood blessing and then we put her to bed. I was not feeling comfortable with just doing nothing though, so after talking to Scott for a while, I called the on-call dr and he said since her fever had never come down that I should take her back in for a UA. We got to the Instacare and her fever read 106.2 F. She was also sound asleep and we had a hard time rousing her. She just laid there. Needless to say, I kinda freaked out. So did the nurses and the dr. The UA came back, and as they said, it was inconclusive. I guess there was bacteria in her urine, but not enough to be causing her fever or her listlessness. So then they decided to do a blood test and a blood culture. This is when they started suspecting Septicemia. The dr recommended a shot of antibiotics. He said no test confirmed that she needed them, but he felt that if we didn't give it to her and it was septicemia, then "we didn't want to know how bad it would be in the morning." So, yea, I voted for the antibiotics. After that very painful shot, we went home. Her fever never went above 103 F the rest of the night (it is odd to think of that as low), so we were feeling a lot calmer. Since she'd responded so well to the antibiotics, they gave her a prescription for more until we found out the results of the blood culture, which would be back in a couple more days. They called a couple of days later, and yep, she'd gotten bacteria in her blood, septicemia. So it was a pretty bad scare, but we were pretty sure the worst was over.

Then this last Tuesday, she woke up with a low-grade fever. I was worried, just remembering last month. I even called Scott, who assured me that you really shouldn't take a child to the dr when their fever is less than 100 F and they've only had it for a few hours.:) And really, he was right. But I just couldn't shake that worried feeling. And then, just like last time, it got higher. But I didn't get really worried until she started shaking. And then screaming. From pain. In her lower back. That's when I freaked out again. I took her back to instacare. They did another urinalysis, (which if you're in diapers involves a catheter-not fun, believe me) and found that the bacteria in her urine was three times the amount that it was last month and she has "another" kidney infection. This time helped to put the puzzle together from last month. She had gotten a bladder infection, which had turned into a kidney infection, which had turned into an infection in her blood. Luckily, this time, it didn't get into her blood yet. So she's had two shots of anitibiotics in the last two days, and she's on oral antibiotics too. She had a kidney scan yesterday, which showed that she has urine going from her bladder back into both of her kidneys. I don't have much more information. The dr still has to go over the radiology pictures and then we'll have to meet with a pediatric urologist. I don't know if she'll need surgery or not yet. But I am very happy that we've figured out what the problem is. The scariest part, to me, was how sick she got both times. And for now, they said we'll keep her on antibiotics until we find out what to do. So she won't get another kidney infection. That makes me very happy.

Thank you to all of you for your love and support and prayers.