Water Infection
May 2, 2008Okay, so it seems I do not manage staying in on a Saturday night very well. I went for drinks at a friends, but by 10pm I was chomping at the bits to get out into town. By 11pm I had given in and decided to go, but couldn’t then get a cab until 12.30am. You may think that it is not worth getting there at quarter to one in the morning and only having an hour in the pub, but do you think a smoking junkie would not like just one puff, or an alcoholic, one small shot? It really did the trick.
However, the next day, tired and hungover, I developed a water infection. I started off being sore ‘down there’, then trouble going to the toilet and eventually on Monday went to see the nurse. “Thrush”, she told me. I was unconvinced but she alledgedly is the professional. Later that day I developed a fever and by Tuesday morning my eye sight was blotchy, I had blood in my wee and I was close to fainting. So I went and got a second opinion.
“You have a water infection, and a pretty nasty one at that,” my doctor told me. Reassuring, all that medical training, isn’t it? He prescribed me some “very expensive” anti-biotics and sent me on my way, assuring me the pain would subside in a day or two with his advice.
We are now three days later, on Friday, and the pain is very much still there (though the blood in the wee and my other symptoms, have almost disappeared). I wouldn’t mind but I spend the day avoiding the toilet and dreading it when I am bursting to go. It stings like a bugger, I scream out in pain afterwards and can barely walk.
But, you know, the cup-half-full in me is saying loud and clear, at least it is nothing more serious than a UTI.
