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Kahlia and I drove up to my parents last night. We got in about 10:00pm, and Kahlia cried most of the way here. She doesn't think too much of sitting in a car seat for 3 1/2 hours!!! It was a long drive...she has a pre op appointment with the ENT department this morning at 10:30. Then, I guess we just "hang out" until 1:00 when she will be admitted to the hospital and begin preps for surgery. Her actual ear surgery is scheduled for 3:00. When I asked why she was not first on the schedule again since she is so little and she can't eat for 6 hours before surgery "prep", they said the nature of her "bug" is such that she has to be scheduled last on the surgery list so there is no chance the other patients could get in contact with the bug. It must be pretty bad. So, we have a long day ahead of us when she can't eat anything until LATE this afternoon!!! I did wake her up at 6:30 this morning and fed her as much pancakes and eggs as I could - since she could eat up until 7::00 am. Hopefully that will sustain her. She can have apple juice or white grape juice up until 11:00 - then absolutely nothing - even water - after that. I'm thinking this is going to be a very long day!!! She has to be observed for 48 hours - so she has to spend 2 nights in the hospital. Scott and the kids are still in North Bend, so I'm flying solo up here. They said that with the pick line in, and administering anti biotics through that, it should take 14 -21 days for her ears to completely clear up. This is crazy!!! Hoping that putting tubes in will help her not get these types of things in the future. She is a little fighter, and we are so proud of our little Kahlia.
Found out yesterday that her thyroid is also not working correctly - it is low - which causes more fatigue. So not only does she have low oxygen, she has low thyroid - no wonder the poor girl doesn't have the energy to do anything! They will be taking some more blood for further thyroid tests to help decide what kind of medication to put her on with that.
Yesterday at her Pediatrician appt. - both her nurse and Dr. McKelvey could not get an oxygen read over 50 %. They kept saying that that can't be accurate, but they re did the test like 8 times. Not sure what that means. Hopefully it was just a bad read - can't imagine her only having 50% oxygen intake - we thought 75% was bad!! It will be interesting to see what it is today when we check her in.
We appreciate all your thoughts and prayers. We are going through a very stressful time as we continue to hear more and more things about Kahlia's health, and Scott's campaign kicking into full gear. We are being pulled in so many directions as the kids end their school year, baseball season, etc. But, through it all - God IS faithful, and I'm so grateful for that!! :-)