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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.