First Doctor's Appointment

Monday, April 20 - Ellee's 4th Birthday

I had read in a magazine where some one had filled their child's bedroom up with a ton of balloons and how excited the child was when they woke up on their birthday and seen all these balloons. It's been a long 10-11 months since I read that till Ellee's birthday came around so that I could try it! After Josh and I had our late lunch Sunday afternoon, we went to get balloons. We ended up getting a cute little grouping of mylar balloons, one was a butterfly that said happy birthday and the others were stars in complimentary colors. I tried so hard to keep this a secret from her and surprise her, but who would have thought that balloons would be so noisy?! Needless to say, she heard me walk in her room and set the balloons down on her floor. I could tell that she wasn't quite herself, but I told her happy birthday and to go back to sleep.

I called the doctor's office to set up an appointment for her to come in. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't know what, so I told them that I thought that she may have a kidney or urinary tract infection and had to be there at 3:45 that afternoon. Dad was watching the girls, so I called him to let him know that I would pick her up from school. Ellee hates when I pick her up from preschool because she'd rather spend the rest of the afternoon with Grandpa or Tonya (depending on who is watching them that day).  She had a great day at school though, she got to wear a birthday crown and gave every one a cupcake for snack!  She was on top of the world for her special day and loved to tell everyone about her birthday balloons!

Sitting in the waiting room, she was back and forth between me and drawing on the chalk board. All of a sudden, she look at me with this look and says that she is going to throw up. A nurse just happened to talk through the door when she told me this and rushed us through the door to the bathroom in the back instead of going out into the hallway bathroom. Thankfully the Dr. Beth told us to go ahead and sit in one of the patient rooms instead of going back into the waiting room. Ellee did have a touch of food poisioning on Saturday (we are blaming that one on daddy!), and even though she told me a few times on Monday that she felt sick, she never did get sick.

We talked with Dr. Beth and discussed her symptoms, the excessive thirst, urination, bed wetting, sleep walking, and a few other things that we've noticed lately.  We did a urine sample which she was going to send out for testing right away.  She mentioned 4 possible things that Ellee may have - UTI, Kidney, something I never heard of, and lastley the possibility of diabetes.  She would know with in an hour if it was an infection at which point we would start antibiotics right away.  
 
We had dinner at mom and dad's house that night for Ellee's birthday.  It wasn't anything fancy, but she ate like a horse.  Infact, I can't say that I've ever seen her eat so much!  We had cake and ice cream and she opened a few presents.  The doctor's office never called back that night so I thought that "no news was good news".