Leavitt Family: September 2008

Bailey Jeanne...#5

Here is a picture of Mr. Froggy, he went into surgery with Bailey and the nurses put a cap on his head and a mask on his mouth also...just to comfort her. They have been so awesome here. They are all taking extra special care of Bailey, because her Daddy works here and they all really like him.

Last night was another hard night. Bailey spiked a 103 temp and kept it for about 3 hours. Today we woke up and by 9:30am we were down having the first 2 phases of her bone scan done. Then we had to go back to our room and wait for 3 hours, so that the dye can move throughout her body. Then at 12:30pm she went down to have the final phase of this test done. It took 20 minutes and she was soooo good, I just told her to try and sleep (because you have to stay super still). We still haven't heard the results of the bone scan yet. This should show if there is any infection in the bone. My prayer is that they don't find anything. It may just be a bacterial staph infection in her blood (possibly caused by the after affects of a strep throat episode late this summer). I guess sometimes when you get strep throat, it can still stay in your body and travel to different parts of the body. Strange...I know but that's what the Doctor's are telling us. Here is a picture of Bailey painting a little figurine that someone brought her. Great things to keep her mind off being here. Thanks everybody...we love you so much!

I will share more when we get news...Bailey Jeanne is in Room 325 at Bay Regional Medical Ctr.

Bailey Jeanne...#4

They did give Bailey some pepcid for her stomach last night so sleeping was a LITTLE better. In between them her 103 temp. that lasted about 2 hours long, even after they gave her tylenol w/ codeine and motrin almost on top of each other. whew!! Plus, they came in at 2:00am to draw blood again...which she did NOT like AT ALL. The Dr.'s started coming in at 8:00am and started ordering more tests. 1st= CT scan of the head, 2nd= ultrasound of the abdomen & pelvis area, 3rd= x-ray of the chest (still a dry cough), 4th= EKG of the on chest, 5th= EKG/ultrasound of the heart. Sounds like most of the tests have come back normal...we do have a question to ask about something we read on one of the reports. We will ask the Dr. tomorrow morning. The Dr.'s have told us that they are ordering a bone scan tomorrow sometime. They are pretty certain that this will show the infection if there is one. Let's pray they find out something...
Thanks to all of you for lifting our family up!!!

Bailey Jeanne...#3

Well at about 8:30pm tonight, Bailey had a surgical procedure done on her hip to draw some fluid from the hip joint. When the Dr. got in, he found no fluid to draw a sample from. So that is a good thing, I am praising God that she did not have to be completely opened up to get an infection out. Now...they still don't know what is the cause of all of this. The way they are talking we will be here a few days. Bailey is saying a lot tonight, "I just want to go home, I don't want to be sick anymore." Please pray that we get good sleep tonight!! They just gave her Tylenol w/codeine for the pain, so maybe that will help. I will post more when I have an update.

Bailey Jeanne...#2

Rough night last night...about every 15 minutes Bailey would wimper about her stomach ache. Not much good sleep. The Dr. came in this morning and said that they did find out that she has a "staph infection" growing in her blood culture that they took. I asked what is that from...they can't pin point it. They have put her on a new antibiotic...Jim says it's the stongest one available. She is complaining a lot about her left hip hurting still. They are checking into a possible joint infection. A lot of "I don't know's," which is driving me crazy. It's wearing on me emotionally, so pray that I keep it together. I hate seeing her in pain and not being able to make it better. They are telling me that we will be staying a few more nights possibly. More later...

Bailey Jeanne...

If you are reading this blog, please take a moment to pray for our daughter Bailey Jeanne. We are in Bay Med hospital and they are running tests. Bailey has had a fever since Wednesday evening. Sometimes it gets as high as 104 degrees and that scares me. She has lots of stomach pain today. She has a bacteria infection in her blood...but can't find out what is causing it yet. Please pray for wisdom for the Doctors. The not knowing WHAT is wrong is the hardest part. I've always been able to make her hurt go away and not being able to do that is heart wrenching. I'll keep you posted...

Here's my "VERY" busy Saturday...

After taking pictures at the fashion show, I drove back to Bay City and made it to Bailey's soccer tournament. She had three games back to back. She had lots of fun playing with her friends. Here are some pictures of her special day. It was a gorgeous day for soccer!!

This is Bailey and her friend, Zoe!

This is Bailey playing goalie, notice her eye's are closed...(but she stopped the ball) :)

Here's my little soccer player, Bailey ... she can get really intense at times!

I took pictures for a fashion show on Saturday...it was pretty cool. This was my first experience branching away from Senior pictures. I really enjoyed it.