A Very Long Day

Yesterday was an extremely long day, Masie had her appointment with the urologist the day before and he wanted to do tests on her to see if the bladder reflux surgery done last year was a success or not, he also wanted to scan her kidneys as she has a lot of pain in her kidney's when she has a UTI. If you don't remember from the last test results Masie only has 39% of her left kidney and 69% in the other one, she can not afford to lose anymore of them. So if her surgery was not successful then all these UTI's she is having is destroying her kidneys one UTI at a time. Unfortunately the tests are not very nice, we left at 4am in the morning to be in El Paso Texas for 7am to start her testing. She was extremely nervous and very fearful as she has had them done before and knows how painful they are. Her first one was a detailed kidney and bladder scan, which wasn't too bad, it was a little uncomfortable as they needed to put a lot of pressure on her kidneys to get a good picture plus she has a UTI now so they were already tender. Anyway she got through that and then it was time for the one she and I were both dreading, the catheter. I am lucky enough to have not experienced having a catheter, but unfortunately for Masie this was her 5th time in her 6 short years of life. That hole should never have anything shoved up it, plus she is so little and that tube is so big, it must be agonizingly painful. When she was changed into this lovely outfit it was almost time for the procedure, about 3 seconds after this picture I was chasing her through the hospital corridor as she saw an opportunity and she ran. We got her on the bed kicking and screaming and they started. A mothers worse nightmare: Holding your child down while two men are holding her legs open and a nurse is shoving a tube up her urethra, all while your baby is shouting "Mummy please tell them to stop, it hurts, please Mummy." After that was over she calmed down a little and they started filling her bladder with water and a radioactive fluid that shows up over another detailed scan. She yelled at them for taping her to the bed so she wouldn't move through the scan, and for telling her to hold her pee when she has been told for years that she is not allowed to do this. She is placed into this machine that scans her while she is peeing and it shows whether she is refluxing or not (fingers crossed that it is NOT). After that traumatising episode for both of us, she gladly escorted me to the gift shop to pick out her much deserved prize. Her appointment for the results is on the 10th of February so please pray that everything goes well, ill keep you posted.

While we were down in El Paso we decided to go to the Zoo, but it was pouring down with rain and freezing cold. Did that stop us?? I think not!!!! We went to pizza hut for a lovely lunch we had a great lunch and a good laugh together, Masie being Masie was a star and was the life of the party even after what she went through, Masie is so wonderful I should be more like her. Anyway, Chris, Masie and Taylor were enjoying stuffed Jalapenos when all of a sudden (omg I cant contain my laughter even now) Chris jumps forward and calls out Ouch! I look up and see him with a boiling hot Jalapeno on his chin and him in agony, I immediately did what any other caring wife would do and I let out this ear piecing laugh. It was so loud that the whole restaurant turned to look at us, I was crying with laughter and Chris was leaning over his plate trying to get the hot cheese off his chin while in obvious pain. What they must of thought of us I don't know but I just know it was so funny I was laughing for hours after.

So full of happiness we decided to head to the zoo, we were the only ones in the whole place (not sure why). We stopped at the gift shop and bought these lovely poncho's, we may look silly but we were dry. Masie was not impressed with hers at first and was moody that we didn't buy each of them a $10 umbrella, but she soon got over it and despite the rain we had a great time.

Taylor and Hailey thought it was brilliant and smiled the whole time. I was always told never let children play with plastic bags, in my defence they weren't playing with them, I paid money to put my children in a plastic bag, I believe there is a difference.

After a very early morning and a really long day this was Masie at 7.20 last night, such a sweet little girl wish her luck for the results.