I'm sorry that you've been going through such stress with your DD being ill 
I really hope that she recovers quickly hun and that it's a very short stay until you have her home again. 
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So sorry we miss out on catching up today too leesa
It was a long night, as often nights in hospital are...
She finally did a wee, 7 hours after arriving and that went of for testing and came back as a positive for infection, but as there is the risk that it can be just from something on the skin and not an actual infection we had the option of another bag (which with her being a tummy sleeper was likely to come back the same, or to insert a cathetar (sp?) and get a sample directly. I chose that, even though I was keen on the invaisiveness of it, we would have highly likely had to do it anyway and the bag was just as distressing for her.
The result came back clear, but it has still gone off to the lab for testing.
We stopped the fluids through the NGT at 7am, and we are going on an oral trial of fluids at about 9am, we tried to get panadol in this morning orally and it took 20minutes and she was spitting it out the whole time, it was a very messy process, but we were hoping to lubricate the throat a bit.
It may be tonsilitis, but we aren't sure yet, there are a few things that are confusing the Dr's so it may be a bit of a mystery at the moment, but the rounds should be here by about 9-9:30 so they will hopefully provide us with more information.
She is a lot chirpier this morning now that she has fluids, but it is going to be getting them in orally that will be the challenge, we have a bit of everything to try, and if we can get the fluids in orally, at least 22ml evey 20min, while it doesn't sound like a lot, if you saw how hard it was to get the 4ml of Panadol in then you will understand we will be able to go home, if not she will need to be kept hydrated via the NGT.
She has tears this morning as well, while it may sound horrible to see her tears when she is crying is really good, as last night she didn't have any.
Cross your fingers for us that she starts to take fluids orally so we can go home to the comfort of our own house.
I think they are really stumped as our we... her throat is red but not bad, tonsils inflamed a bit but once again not bad, no diahorrea or vomiting - except for when they put the NGT in, and no more old blood is coming back up the NGT so that is good 
Surely one will work. We are letting her sleep as long as she needs to, even though it risks the dehydration again, because if we wake her it will shift her straight back into a negative cycle, as everytime she has been woken here something "bad" happens or upsetting.
. Getting Nikita better is first priority.
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