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Kidney infection: take 2
Nov. 26th, 2012 05:10 pmOK, to be fair, it was a relapse but not all the way to a fever.
Saturday I felt crappy, but dragged myself into work anyway. When I got home, I was exhausted, and went to bed around 9pm. Woke up at midnight, bathroom. Woke again, 1am, bathroom. Also 2am. Then 4am, 6am, 7:30am (but that one had cat assistance- in the we're starving, give us brekkies!! way). I realized I had not been pushing fluids on Friday and Saturday at work, so I started with that, took some vitamin C, got a lot of rest. Typical useless Sunday here. I realized I didn't feel bad, especially as the afternoon wore on, I just had to go to the bathroom every 2-3 hours, with less of a sense of urgency as the day wore on.
Sunday night I got sleep between bathroom trips, didn't feel too bad, but was worrying about the frequency. So I called and left a message for the doctor this morning. I just got the callback from the office. I'm guessing it was the high fever that originally concerned her, which is absent now, because the word was to keep taking the antibiotic and call in when it's finished if it hasn't taken care of the frequency by then. But, if I show signs of rapid worsening, or fever, to go to the emergency room.
It's discouraging, since I had been doing so well at first on the antibiotic. But we'll see how it goes. And I am definitely going to keep pushing fluids for now.
I'm glad I made it out to do the errands I had to run today, but that killer sinus headache is not fun. Tonight I will do nothing but watch TV and rest.
Saturday I felt crappy, but dragged myself into work anyway. When I got home, I was exhausted, and went to bed around 9pm. Woke up at midnight, bathroom. Woke again, 1am, bathroom. Also 2am. Then 4am, 6am, 7:30am (but that one had cat assistance- in the we're starving, give us brekkies!! way). I realized I had not been pushing fluids on Friday and Saturday at work, so I started with that, took some vitamin C, got a lot of rest. Typical useless Sunday here. I realized I didn't feel bad, especially as the afternoon wore on, I just had to go to the bathroom every 2-3 hours, with less of a sense of urgency as the day wore on.
Sunday night I got sleep between bathroom trips, didn't feel too bad, but was worrying about the frequency. So I called and left a message for the doctor this morning. I just got the callback from the office. I'm guessing it was the high fever that originally concerned her, which is absent now, because the word was to keep taking the antibiotic and call in when it's finished if it hasn't taken care of the frequency by then. But, if I show signs of rapid worsening, or fever, to go to the emergency room.
It's discouraging, since I had been doing so well at first on the antibiotic. But we'll see how it goes. And I am definitely going to keep pushing fluids for now.
I'm glad I made it out to do the errands I had to run today, but that killer sinus headache is not fun. Tonight I will do nothing but watch TV and rest.
