keeping it real

Yes, there are many times when my little girls amaze me with their patience and ability to ride it out [mostly] flawlessly through multiple long medical appointments, but there are also times when it doesn't work that way.

 Yes, that's Gloria, pulling herself up off the floor where she's been sobbing for the last 15 minutes. This also happened to be the lab visit where we just went to our primary clinic to avoid the slightly longer drive and more complicated parking and arrival scenario of going to Gillette downtown St. Paul. We DID get a great blood draw (from the fourth person who looked at her, and finally decided she was brave enough to go for it!) but completely botched the urine sample. While we were trying to strategize the best way to put the little collection baggie in place, Mira decided it was time to go. So go she did, soaking the chux, her pants, her socks, running off the chux onto the memory foam cushion. Oh, what a mess. So there went that attempt. We were sent home with a baggie on, and a few extras in a paper lunch bag. Mira proceeded to have a bowel movement on the next three bags, and by the end of the next day, we'd only managed to collect a total of 15 ml. That's not quite the 40 they told us to aim for. Thankfully a call to her doctor this morning (who ordered the labs) said that they could work with the 15ml, so we're finally done with that.

To be completely fair, I should also mention that Gloria also managed to keep up the crying during almost the entirety of Mira's "bath" upon arriving home (because there's nothing like being soaked in your own urine to prompt a bath around here! Evania did the same this morning with an uncharacteristic accident while standing right next to the toilet. Nothing like a bubble bath to stop the sobbing!) 

Sometime the simple visits end up being the most complicated ones!! Phew. One more done.