In which Kip talks about her being ill.

[kippurbird]

Obviously God hates me.



July 10/11th, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix premiere. That day having issues with my bladder ie having to go every twenty minutes or so, so it feels like and it hurts when I pee. Still hurts the next day, call mother. She diagnoses bladder infection. We make a Doctor's appointment and go in.

Doctor does his examination. I pee in a cup. He hits my back and my kidney goes OW. So, he gives me antibiotics, a bit more than normal because of the kidney.

I take antibiotics and feel better. Still a bit of stinging when I pee but I don't associate it with the infection because I finished the antibiotics. Just sort of forget about it.

July 26 go down to Comic Con. Friday have to pee a lot and feels like it did on the 10/11th. Figure it is nerves. Next day feel fineish, pee a lot though. Sunday okay maybe not okay. Call mom she berates me for not telling her sooner. We go back home. At a pee stop there's blood clots.

Get home. Go to ER. More peeing in a cup. Apparently still with infection because white blood cell count is still high. They check the cultures and it's a bit something or another. They don't say. Give me more antibiotics. Same as last ones, I discover after I get home. Tell me to make appointment for three days from now.

July 30th Mom calls up for appointment. It's set for Thursday. Mom forgets to mention that the antibiotics are the same, calls back to see if we need to change them again. Leaves message for the Doctor.

Doctor calls back. Says he doesn't like what the ER sent back about the cultures. Says that they're different than the first cultures and there's something "funny" going on. Wants me to come in today. Will have to pee in cup again. May have to give me shot.

And to top this all off, I'm leaving Friday to the east coast. Isn't that a wonderful time to get sick?

Comments

[searchingstars.livejournal.com]

Yikes, hope you are all better soon and that it's nothing serious!

[christinaathena.livejournal.com]

Obviously God hates me. Maybe he's an Eragon fan. ;-)

Sounds rather unpleasant. :-( I hope whatever it is isn't serious.

[ghostgecko.livejournal.com]

Well, don't drink the water while you're here.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Apparently the second culture got contaminated or something. So they're doing a third.

I think God likes watching me pee into little cups.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

It's the bladder infection from Hell.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Oh, no Back East all I have to worry about are the insects from Hell. They enjoy making my body swell and turn nastily red.

[searchingstars.livejournal.com]

Could be, could be!

But at least you don't have to worry about complicated instructions that you've lost, which is what happened to me last time I had to pee in a cup. Embarrassingly, I had to call my brother's wife and ask her if she knew how to go about it. Ooops!

[sleevewornheart.livejournal.com]

omg, you too? They get me, and the next day I look like I stuck half a grapefruit under my skin. Ew.

I hope you feel better soon. :(

[reverie-shadow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like what my friend went through when she had bladder infection. Only what happened to her is that it didn't hurt when she peed--she'd try to, but couldn't pee at all. Even when she wanted to.

Eventually the nurses diagnosed her, and said, "Welcome to the bladder infection club!"

Sorry to hear about that, though. Bladder infections sounds like a real pain in the--for lack of a better word--ass.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Ahhah... Yeah. And even if I did. They have instructions printed on the walls in the Doctor's office bathrooms.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

It's horrible! I get one or two bites and then they start swelling like mad and soon they all turn into this one uber bite from hell.

Me too! They gave me meds and so I'm doing okay.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

They are. And you have to drink massive amounts of liquid and then you're going pee every half hour. And so you have to drink more because you're loosing all this liquid and... yeah.

[sleevewornheart.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear! About the meds and feeling better, not about the bugs.