It's been a weird six weeks.

[hawkwing_lb]

First I get the evil 'flu. It combines itself with a probable kidney infection. I recover, sort of, after three weeks. Then I go to Octocon, and on the Monday following have everything that is discomfort-like-unto-itch and fatigue and dull ache around the kidney region.

The doctor hears like an itch and decides it must be thrush, I need anti-fungals, not an antibiotic. But let's have a lab test, anyway.

It's a good thing I'm not dying, because it's taken a full week for the test results to come back and they have at last revealed the actual presence of bacteria. I am vindicated in my conviction that this was more than thrush, and greatly relieved to have an explicable reason for my unpleasant-but-consistent kidney-area discomfort and continuing fucking fatigue. Cause! Cause with foreseeable cure: this does not have to represent a new normal, thank god, because I don't think I can stand it for very much longer.

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On the other hand, I got paid this weekend. And since I had to go into town anyway to return some library books before university librarians came hunting my liver, I went and bought myself a nice violent-green Polartec microfleece, some socks, a copy of An Litir, and a copy of Josephine Tey's The Man In The Queue.

I may have overspent. Still, that's a problem for later in the month. (I am still waiting on a cheque from Tor.com.)

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Yay on confirmation! (Did they happen to let slip the name of the offending bacterium/i?) Violent green Polartec is well-known for promoting healing. Says so right here <----.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

They might have, but I was on a train when the nurse called with diagnosis and promises of antibiotics, so if she did say, I missed it.

Well, the violent green Polartec makes me feel better, for sure. (I just wish I had been able to find a version not made somewhere in East Asia famous for sweatshops.)

[foz meadows (from livejournal.com)]

Kidney infections, as I mentioned earlier, are The Suck. I hope you feel better soon!

I had one in my first year at uni. For about two weeks beforehand, I was complaining of back pain, aches, chills, fatigue and cramps, and generally feeling like shit. But I didn't go to the doctor, because my BF of the time, in his INFINITE WISDOM, repeatedly told me I was being a hypochondriac and making it up; that I wasn't really sick, I just wanted attention from him, and that "there is literally no illness that has all those symptoms" (which, being a CS student, he would know, OBVIOUSLY; I did point out to him that he wasn't a doctor, but he just laughed). So I just put up with it - right up until the point where I collapsed with a fucking fever right in front of my BF, who ONLY THEN deigned to admit that maybe, MAYBE there was something wrong with me. It turns out, I'd had a UTI which had gotten so bad that it had morphed into a kidney infection - if I'd gone to the doctor straight off, it would've been an easy fix, but instead I spent the next two weeks taking antibiotics. (My BF never apologised.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I am this tired of being sick. And trying not to complain about being sick. And not succeeding... :)

Your then-BF sounds like a right gobshite and I hope he has the kind of health he deserves.

[sovay]

Cause! Cause with foreseeable cure: this does not have to represent a new normal, thank god, because I don't think I can stand it for very much longer.

I am very glad it has been correctly diagnosed and I hope it is swiftly treated so as to go the fuck away.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thank you. So do I! I am looking forward to a future that includes exercise in it again.

[between4walls.livejournal.com]

V. glad you have a correct diagnosis now. Vindication is sweet. Hope the treatment works quickly.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thanks!