Update - Friday Night

Results from Karissa's urine sample came in today and there was evidence of a urinary tract infection. There were signs of E. coli in her urine, which is the easiest sign of it.
If all other tests (the bacterial tests from the spinal tap, etc.) are negative in the morning, then she'll be released and be back home by mid-afternoon. We're told that this is very common - especially for girls - and indeed there was another little girl two doors down with a UTI. That girl was just 11 days old, where Karissa is 16 days.

She's been so good through all this. It's still painful to see her in her little arm cast which keeps her IV in place, but she's been alert much of the day and she is increasingly keeping her head up for several seconds, swivelling from side to side and examining her surroundings.
I arrived at the hospital this morning after dropping Kole off with my dad and Kay, then came up to relieve Kathy before 10:30 am. She was able to come home, shower and rest and gather some things, then was back up by 5:30 to take another night shift. I offered, but she said that if she were at home she probably wouldn't sleep anyways, wondering how things were going back at the hospital. So, I picked Kole back up and got home - he was wiped out! I barely got through the door and he was taking off his shoes and running to his bedroom door saying "Nap! Nap!" Holy Jeebus - he's never requested sleep! So, I had him in bed, re-told the harrowing story of the Little Pigs again ...

Quick Aside: Why do classic children's tales have to be re-written? In this book Kole has, and there's no telling who gave it to us, or which garage sale we bought it from, there's no more wolf-to-pig banter of "Little pigs little pigs - let me come in! ... (pig) Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin ... (wolf) then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in!" Was that deemed racist or sexist or insensitive to Muslims or Eskimos or transvestites? It's a classic passage that kids like me save to memory.The story now - or at least in the book Kole has - the wolf walks up and says "Let me in or I'll blow your house to smithereens!" The pig has no quick-witted retort, and in the next paragraph the wolf blows the first two houses to smithereens. I can't for the life of me think of why those passages needed changing - and for some other reason, it's obviously still bothering me!

... so anyway, the boy was down and asleep after a good day with Paw Paw and Gram. I called Kathy and Karissa had been asleep basically since I left. Things are looking up, and as long as the tests are negative in the morning we'll have our little girl back home where she belongs.