This happened a couple weeks ago. Just posting now.

DH calls me in the middle of the work day, he's heading to the hospital to meet BM who has fetched SD15 from school with dramatic abdominal pain, pallor, overall intense misery.

Nest call he's at the ER, confirms the girl looks terrible, close to passing out, clearly in great pain.

So we're all freaking out, of course. The school nurse thought it might be an ovarian cyst. But so many other possibilities from appendicitis to kidney stones to ectopic pregnancy to who knows? Most of these are life threatening. Big stress for all of us.

By the end of the day, what's the dx? Massive UTI. Bleeding into the bladder.

SM sits back and breathes, knowing UTI is easily treated. SM also screams the silent scream of evil knowing that UTI is pretty much guaranteed to girls who don't change their panties all weekend (and who knows beyond?), brag about not showering, and have endless let's not go into the details here refusals to do proper lady monthly hygiene.

Bark, show this one to your dh. If he wants his daughter to go through this, keep her on the track she is. She's just a kid, right? Who cares about her hygiene? Um, parents who don't want their daughters to suffer the malaise and pain of a long term UTI that gets this bad and who don't want to see their daughter on IV antibiotics in a hospital bed, that's who.

SD15 is ok now. But it was very painful and terrifying for her and she had to undergo procedures she was too young for. But I sure hope all those dirty panties etc were worth it.