October 8th, 2012
Me mom and Irene headed into San Jose to do a quick check up on me before leaving on our big trip. Dad stayed behind as La Hoja Nueva is quite busy and dad had to make sure everything was in order before Thursday. We arrived to CIMA, at 2pm and did our usual round of testing which was blood work and an urine culture. The blood work was a breeze but the urine culture was dificult as usual and too many tries before we succeeded in a sample. After that we headed out to El Bolero.
My mom was anxious and called the following morning to see if there was anything growing in the culture sometimes they can see something quickly. Unfortunately the doctor in the labarotory told my mom that yes something was definitely growing and fast. Since I really did not have any symptoms whatsoever my mom decided to have another culture done. Well you know what that means, back to CIMA to get catheterized again. However we wanted to be sure! The second time around was just as dificult as the first but they finally got the sample. The next morning mom called and yes a bacteria was growing but less than 20,000. The first one was over a 100,000. You see you treat a UTI if there is more than 100,000 but you dont treat if less than. So since I had no symptoms, Dra.Castro sent me with two thumbs up to leave for Texas but she as well sent me with medications just in case I were to present symptoms in Texas.
Wednesday we relaxed and waited for dad to come. Irene and I stayed at the Bolero together and did a small workout and mom went in to pick dad up at the bus station! We have to go to bed early as our flight is out at 830am and we have to be out the door by 630am!!! Needless to say we come with alot of baggage!!! My medical box weighed in at 50lbs alone.
Mom was packing like crazy, dad said he does better in the morning and went to bed with me and mom the night owl stayed up until midnight. I am excited about my trip to Texas!
Love Malia