Superhuman idiot
So what do get if you cross a low grade UTI with too much sugar, not enough sleep, too much protein, strenuous excercise, and 3 cans of redbull (not nescessarily in that order)? You get a proper kidney infection, that’s what. We know this, afterall you’re taking something that the body has got quite good at fighting and removing any form of defence and giving it a nice place to live and plenty of food. Of course it’s going to have a party and invite its mates.
This opens a quandry for me. Firstly this infection is my own fault (well, its escalation is) so, just like a hangover, no sympathy is expected or sought. Secondly I’m going to Sedition even if I have to get an ambulance there. I’ve always been taught that if you’re well enough to go out you’re well enough to go to school.
So, I can struggle into work tomorrow, work at below par for the week, go out on Friday and make myself really ill or I could take tomorrow off, get some sleep and be back at near 100% by Friday with little chance of breaking myself if I’m sensible with my liquid intake. (there is no option where I don’t go out, this isn’t that type of blog).
If this were anyone else I’d tell them to take the rest of the week off and take it easy. Being me I need to apply slightly different rules, namely: Can I walk and am I not contageous? If yes then to into work. If no then am I in hospital? If no work from home. If yes enquire about getting out to get to work. Actually that’s not quite true, I’ll also work from home if my temperature exceeds 102F. So I’m a nutcase (this is borne out by the number of times I’ve left work in an ambulance, turns out bright red urine, temperature of 104F and shooting pains is not something you can walk off) but the amount of time I’ve had off due to the kidneys is getting to be emarassing so you can kind of understand.
I’ve decided to relent a little and let the body decide this time. I shall go to bed early with no alarm set. If I wake up in time to get into work for before 10 I’ll go in. If I don’t then I’ll stay at home, rest, doss about and feel guilty for it.
Footnote: Yes Mother, I know I should take better care of my kineys but I think we can all agree that drinking 3 cans of redbull to get 5 minutes conversation from the cute bartender far outweighs the benefits of working kidneys in later life. 
Whether it’s your own fault for escalating this infection or not, you have my sympathies! You know how much I suffer with this stuff as well so I hope you get better soon!! x
Luckily I have only had one kidney infection in my life, my oh my god the pain. With that in mind I’d work from home for a couple of days, that way you’ll enjoy Friday night even more.
Ah, this one shouldn’t be too painful, it’s only the full blown ones that hurt, and even then it’s nowhere near as bad as a stone so just aching kidneys, uncomfortable to pee kind of thing. What gets to me is the spiking temperature, the inability to think in a straight line and the extreme fatigue.
Sympathy #hug#.
It’s the carbonated stuff that usually does this to me (for reasons that passeth all understanding). I hope you feel better soon…because the temprature spikes and all the other ’stuff’ that come with are annoying as hell.
Bathgirl ( wearing her ‘been there and done that’ T-shirt)
I’ve only had this once in my life too. It was so so painful!!
in fact so painful that I fainted and fell down the stairs.
Cranberry juice cured me
Don’t get cranberry juice mised up with Viakal in your delicate state. Pink walls and scorched insides probably won’t help.
So judging from the fact that it’s gone 12:30 and I’ve just woken up in a pool of my own sweat (lovely imagery for you all there) it looks like I’m staying at home. Cranberry juice is a nono as it attacks my kidneys and causes all kinds of problems. Water by the bucket load is the way forward. In the mean time I shall not being going to work, instead I shall be changing my bedsheets and washing the dirty ones. Such fun.
Well thats good then. Bed rest is very important. It’s also important to avoid work when you wont remember what you’re doing and will have to redo it all later anyway and/or it will work but you wont have a clue how and you’ll be praying noone asks.
I might argue, if I were your mother, that you didnt need to have 3 cans of redbull in order to talk to the barmaid, and that you could have chosen many other drinks which would have averted, or at least minimised the impact, of the infection.
Like Perrier 2008!
Perrier tastes like crud and it was only thanks to the excessive amounts of caffeine coursing through my system that my mouth overruled my brain and continued talking where I would normally shut up. I did, of course, crash and/or burn, but at least I tried
Fizzy water is sh*t .. still every time, but it needs squash or sommink in it .. that’s “in it” not “innit”!
Normally I drink lemonade. I feel such a berk asking for ‘lime and water’ in a pub