What a hideous last few days. Absolutely everything that could go wrong did go wrong at the worst posable time.
I had noticed last week that I felt like I was getting a urinary track infection. I've always been prone to them and usually drinking cranberry juice for a few days clears them up. Then I got really sick this weekend with a high fever and flu like symptoms. Timing could not have been worse as I needed to shoot talent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday that had flown in from Nebraska and was costing Angel lots of money. I did most of the shoot but was unable to finish Saturday's shoot and never made it out of bed Sunday. Her backup photographer finished Saturday's shoot but was unavailable Sunday as it was his son's birthday.
So this morning I show up at my doctor's office a few minutes before they are even open and plop myself against his front door waiting for them to open. Shortly afterwards nurse sees me, recognizes me, and knows something is very wrong for me to be up this early with my hair snatched, no makeup, perspiring so bad that my clothes are soaked. She then tells me that my doctor is away on a family emergency and the doctor filling in will not be in until 11:30.
So I go back home and wait until 11:25 and drive back over. Luckily I live less then one mile from the doctor's office
The doctor filling in is a very nice Egyption woman who seemed a little uncomfortable when I asked her where she was from. Turns out I don't have the flu but a very bad urinary track infection. Never knew that could give you a fever of 103.9. Anyway the meds, Ciprofloxacin, are making me feel strange and I'm very weak from not eating for days but I'm already feeling relief. They are going to do a culture just to make sure that they have me on the correct meds but it is going to take up to three days for the results.
This really kicked my ass and my vision is still blurry but I feel like I should be much better in a few days. I have a follow up visit on Monday.
Just cooked an Amy's organic spinach pizza and ate most of it. Washed the sheets on my bed so I'll have nice clean dry sheets to sleep in and am looking forward to feeling well again.
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