Getting Sick Sucks

The title says it all!

I had concerns because today started out as Day Four of a high fever, chills, body aches, and a wicked bad headache, after having the exact same symptoms about ten days ago for three days. I didn’t want to be the guy who has to come into the Emergency Room in a week and have some ER doctor asking me, “Why didn’t you come in a week ago? Are you some kind of an idiot?!”

Those are actually two separate questions, but I can answer the first one. Thus I spent four-plus hours in Urgent Care today.

After various tests and probes, they ruled out COVID (which I told them from the beginning since I wasn’t having any respiratory problems) and the flu (as I told them, since I had no GI or nausea issues). After pretty much ruling out a couple of other likely issues, they determined (as was my non-doctor, medically uneducated guess) that it was an infection. Probably a UTI, which would fit with my medical history of kidney stones, although at least I haven’t had that screaming agony to deal with this time.

So, industrial grade antibiotskis it is for the next ten days and dealing with all of the potential side effects of that.

What I would really, REALLY like is this fever to finally break and vanish and let me get about twelve hours of uninterrupted sleep. But that’s probably not going to happen either.

I’ll take eight hours, and after the last week’s schedule and fevers and chills, be grateful for six.

Any port in a storm.