Hard 2 weeks for the Polos!

Abby and her cousin Grace using their Great Aunts cell phones to text!! Abby is completely enthralled and happy. She looks like an old pro!

Abby with both of her first cousins, Grace and Isabelle. Isabelle is coveting those phones in a bad way!!

Oma with 2 of her beautiful granddaughters!

Oma and Conrad with the kids after stuffing ourselves!

Abby fist bumping Isabelle.


The past couple of weeks have been really hard for us and Abby. A couple of weeks ago (Sunday), Abby started running a fever, it kept getting higher and higher everyday until it reached 104.3. We got her into the Dr. on that Wednesday (Nov.18). the Dr. checked her temperature and it was still over 104. Abby was also coughing a lot. At that time, I told the Dr. how bad her urine smelled, but she said that was probably due to the high fever and such. She told me Abby had the symptoms of Swine Flu and sent me to the lab to get an x-ray to make sure it was not turning into something respiratory. Getting a chest x-ray for a 19 month old is an ordeal. Abby cried and cried and all I could do was hold her hands and tell her it was going to be ok. The chest x-rays came back fine and the dr. said to just give her Tylenol and/or Motrin, and warm baths to keep the fever down and it should go away in a couple of days. Well, 5 days later, she was still spiking fevers of 103, and she was getting copious amounts of Tylenol and Motrin. On Monday (Nov. 23) after the fever raging for over a week, we called the Dr. again. They scheduled us to come back in on Tuesday to see what could be wrong with her. So, again, Abby and I hauled ourselves back to the Dr. This time, she decided we needed to take urine sample, another chest x-ray and draw blood for blood tests. In little girls that are so young, you can't ask them to pee in a cup, so the actually have to tape a bag over their entire private parts to try and catch the urine when they pee. After they taped the bag, they sent us off to take blood and get another chest x-ray at the lab, hoping that while we were doing that she would pee in the bag. So I had to go take her back to the x-ray room and hold her hands while she cried and cried while they took another chest x-ray. Then came the blood draw. This had to be the worst part of the entire ordeal. Luckily, at that time, Eric showed up to help me. I had to hold Abby down while two nurses took her arm and drew stuck a needle in and drew her blood. She sobbed and sobbed and screamed and cried. She looked up at me with tears in her eye and said "pwease". Like please make them stop mama, please make them stop. I started crying with her and just held her and told her it was ok. Finally, once the blood had been drawn, we went back to the Dr.s office to check her urine bag to see if she had peed. She hadn't. We waited almost 45 more minutes for her to pee. Finally she peed in the bag and they tested her urine and discovered she had a urinary tract infection. However, she did not pee enough for the Dr. to send a sample to the lab. So, the Dr. then had to come in and Eric had to hold her down while they put a catheter in and extracted more urine. All of this was done to Abby in one day. We were at the Dr. for 3 1/2 hours. Finally, the Dr. gave us antibiotics for the urinary tract infection and sent us home. finally, within 48 hours, her fever went away completely!! She is sooooooo much better!! She is finally back to her loving happy little self. She was miserable for 10 days with a HIGH fever and it really took a toll on her. We are sooooo happy that she is better, it is such a BIG relief for us. She was able to enjoy Thanksgiving with her cousins and enjoy her extra time with Dada and Mama at home.