Malia Moore

On Thursday Maria came to play and hang out with me. More so hang out with me as I did not do too much exercising today mainly stretching. I am still on the road to mending, but I am feeling much much better. Mom called Doris, the girl mom interviewed before I became ill and she is coming out on Tuesday to work out with. I am glad it is the weekend as I am ready to just catch up on my sleep and relax a bit.

On Sunday a man named Viktoras came over to meet me. He wants to see if he can help me with my diet and overall well being. My dad has made some beautiful gardens for him and they began to talk about me and he suggested that he might be able to help. We are no longer seeing Shelbe the other nutritionist so my dad and mom were happy that Viktoras wanted to come and meet me. He was very interesting and had many great suggestions for me. We started me on sauerkraut juice and enzymes added to my food. Sauerkraut juice has some many wonderful benefits. It is loaded with antioxidants, and helps with the gastro tract, digestion and is a mild laxative as well! I am going to give it a shot and see how well I do on it. Mom is giving me Whey as well from the yogurt  cheese she makes.I am getting a new menu in the next week so will be interesting to see all that it entails!

Doris came out on Tuesday and did a great job. She was very confident and has experience. She handled me very well. I was happy with her style.  We have received many calls for the position of being my therapist. We are interviewing 6 in San Jose. I just know we will pick the right one however I think it will be very hard for someone to fill Sofia’s shoes but we are going to try!!!  Hopefully I will have a new therapist really soon.

The rest of the week I worked and played with Maria.  I had a good week and am feeling like myself again.

Today we went to our friend’s house Piti and Miguel.   We hung out by the pool all day. I napped for awhile listening to the waterfall in the pool than later we went swimming and I had so much fun. I swam for over an hour and was moving all around like a little fish! I was kicking and splashing around! It was awesome! Everyone came to swim with me! Miguel, Maria, and Piti! We had such a great time. After I got out of the pool I hung out on the lounge chair in my chair and had a great time hanging out with Sarah and Dad A little girl younger than me was there and she was so interested in me. She wanted to give me her chips! She touched my face and I touched her. I love other kids. It was a beautiful day….. Tons of fun had by all my kinda way to spend a Sunday!

Love Malia xoxox

January 29th 2012

Around midnight I woke up crying. I could  not get comfortable. Mom and dad had moved me  into bed with  them and were patting me and talking to me trying to calm me down. I would go to sleep for maybe 20 minutes than wake up and cry hysterically for 30minutes. I did not feel good. Mom took my temperature and it was normal but she gave me some Tylenol anyway just in case I was hurting somewhere. My parents have to do a lot of guesswork with me since I can not tell them exactly where it is that I am hurting.  Mom and I ended up in the rocking chair with me falling asleep over her shoulder. She pats me in just the right way and I finally fell back to sleep but it was  not a deep sleep. Around 4am I started to cry again and mom touched my back and it was on fire. I was so hot! Mom took my temperature and it was 102. Uh oh, time to go to San Jose. My parents do not waste a minute thinking about what to do when I have a temperature like that we know we have to go to the city.

This was not the best timing for me to get sick. My cousin Brent was flying into Tambor today at 8am. It is his first time here to visit us and he does not speak Spanish. Dad would not be able to go with us as he had to pick up Brent. Mom knew who she would call our dear friend Karen. Fortunately for us she is here for the next 4 months with her husband George. Mom called and woke Karen up at 5:30 am. Karen was obviously sleeping and a bit groggy so mom explained to Karen she needed her help and asked her to go in with us to San Jose. Karen arrived here at 7am and we headed out for the ferry at 7:30am. It was so very kind and sweet of her to come with us, as she had friends flying in as well to visit them that day.

We went straight to CIMA and did our routine investigations, urine test, culture, and blood. Sure enough my urine exam came back positive and my white blood cells highs. I had another urinary tract infection! I am thinking are you kidding me? I just had one a month ago. Why is this? I take prophylactic antibiotics daily and yet I still get these infections. Why? We have ran every test out there and yet nothing shows up or gives proof that I have a valid reason for getting these infections. Mom cleans down there obsessively. The only thing anyone can figure is that since I am not moving around and working all my muscles that maybe bacteria is more abundant down there.

Dr. Zuniga decided not to admit me to the hospital but told us to go to the hotel and stay around for a few days. My fever kept coming back, for two days I had temps of 102. Mom was scared and I freaked her and Karen out a few times by holding my breath and going blue for a few seconds. I always was worse at night. I would start to tremble and get chills right before my fever would spike. I was having difficulty breathing as well when I started to get my fever.  I was not going to the bathroom regularly and was holding it in as it hurt too bad to pee. I sure hope these antibiotics take effect soon as I hate feeling like this.

Sofia, her mom, and Johnny came by to see me. They arrived right when I was beginning to tremble. I was not doing so well. We did not have much time to visit as I felt terrible. Twice I went blue not for long but enough to scare my mom and Karen! Seizures, fever, and infection do not blend well at all! Dra. Castro does not like that my fever is still high so has asked me to come in to see her so I can get a intramuscular shot in the bootie to hopefully speed up killing this bacteria. It is Ecoli. I always get Ecoli. Some of you might think how does she get Ecoli?  It is not the Ecoli from food but the Ecoli that is found in 90% of all urinary tract infections. I hope we can figure something out soon! I have been feeling so good except for these urinary tract infections!

We finally headed home on late Wednesday afternoon. I was ready to go home but was exhausted and we had a long drive ahead of us. Auntie Karen sat in the back with me and gave me my lunch. I was sleeping so deeply and with my mouth wide open that when mom looked in the review view mirror she says to Karen “is Malia breathing”? Karen looks at me and then mom says it again….. Then the next thing you know Karen shakes my chest and I wake right up startled looking at them both like why in the world are you waking me from this great sleep? Geez, ladies.

We got home by sunset. We had a grand welcome party!  Dad, Selva, Indio George and the friends that had flown in the day we left to see Karen, and of course I got to meet my cousin Brent for the first time! I was so glad to be back home. Time to recover  and then it is back to San Jose to take another urine culture to make sure the bacteria is totally gone.

Whew, what a long week!

Love Malia

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