We took her in last Monday to the Quick-Care Clinic, and they diagnosed a UTI, as we expected based on the few little symptoms she was manifesting (smelly urine, and when we checked her temp Monday morning, it was 98.3. Mira's our little "reptile" who can't maintain her own body temp, so to see her on the low side of normal without intervention means, well, something.) After sending her home with the expectation that we'd pick up an antibiotic later in the day once it was prescribed, her doctor actually called back asking if we could bring her in, as the antibiotic he wanted to start her on was just closely enough related to one of the two that triggered her huge anaphylactic response in the ER a few years ago (we still don't know which of the two it was, the *other* is the more likely to trigger a reaction, but she'd been on it for an hour before she started the second, and five minutes later was when her reaction hit) that he didn't want her to start it at home.
So I brought her down, and they ended up starting her on a *different* antibiotic, but still, essentially symptomless, the idea was to bring her home the next day. Except routine base-line blood work revealed all sorts of unusual (even for Mira) levels, so they've been chasing a variety of things since. Most likely, it appears that the infection had spread into at least one of her kidneys.
The above photo was during my visit with her this afternoon. Still not quite sure why they've got her on oxygen. There's no reason why her oxygen saturation levels should be low due to a UTI. But that's Mira for you.
Please notice, in honor of Toni (our Bulgarian adoption lawyer), how prettily Mira's hair looks in those delicate french braids! I am glad that the nurses at Gillette think that taking time to do patients' hair is an important thing to do. She is in such good hands when she is there.
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