Summertime blues

Here we are at the beginning of summer and somehow we have landed 2 sick kids. Aren't they supposed to be sick in the winter and well in the summer??? Phillip and Preston came down with a cold a couple weeks ago. Of course Phillip has decided to hang on to it for a while. After almost 2 weeks of coughing and runny nose he seems to be improving. Thank goodness. I don't do snot well haha!
Preston is a different story. He ran a high fever and Sunday morning he seemed to have had a seizure. We took him to the doctor and she said he looked ok. Just a cold and to contact his neurologist. His neuro decided it was best to go ahead and get another MRI to make sure the spot they saw on the MRI he had last year hasn't changed. In the meantime Preston started peeing blood. I have to say it is a little shocking to see your child urinating something that looks like tea! Back to the doctor we went. After lots of tests and his pediatrician consulting with the nephrologists (kidney specialist) they believe Preston has some thing called IgA nephropathy. IgA nephropathy is a kidney disorder that occurs when IgA-a protein that helps the body fight infections-settles in the kidneys. After many years, the IgA deposits may cause the kidneys to leak blood and sometimes protein in the urine.  We cannot be sure this is the right diagnoses unless we have a kidney biopsy. At this time I don't think that is necessary and neither do the doctors. We have to monitor him closely, watch his blood pressure and make sure his urine is returning to normal. If he has another episode of large blood in the urine then we will revisit the idea of the biopsy. In the middle of all this we found preston had strep throat starting so luckily they were able to put him on antibiotics before it got bad. Wednesday Preston had his MRI and that went well. They had to put him under to do it so he was a little goofy and off balance but he seemed back to normal by wednesday evening. I am hoping they call with those results sometime today. Through all this they have been pretty good. Preston hates needles but was a trooper with all the testing. Sooooo thats what we have been up to! Not much right. hahahah! Time to run! I hope everyone is well!!!!!