6 lbs. later...

Yesterday I stepped on a REAL scale and I have lost SIX POUNDS!

OK. I cheated. But I didn't mean to. I have been fighting a "flu" bug for almost 3 weeks off and on. It started with what I was afraid was a UTI which I was really upset about as I had just begun working for a Urologist as his "Medical Receptionist" (does everyone know that? I no longer work for the prison post office - that is a whole different post - haha) But a went to the store at 5:00 in the morning and bought a huge jug of cranberry juice and spent the day drinking it. Things seemed to get better although some symptoms lingered for a few days. I felt good for 3 days and then BAM! OHHHHH. The intestinal cramps, the body aches, headache, fever, etc. I had to miss a day of work (I only work 2 days a week). Achyness lasted about 4 days. 3 good days. BAM. This time it was worse - the chills were debilitating, the sweats were awful, every sneeze caused a jackhammer to go off in my head. I decided I must have a propensity for this sort of flu because I had the exact same experience 6 months ago (which caused problems at the prison-post office). That time the whole thing cycled 3 times and then it was over. This time Don got concerned enough that he arranged for me to see the doctor without an appointment.

-ASIDE...don't you hate going to the trouble of making an appointment with the doctor, knowing something is wrong, then getting there and being told "It's a virus. Just wait it out." --

Although the chills had gone I was still quite achey and yucky feeling and I had about decided it was a long-standing sinus infection gone out of control and turned into a tumor of some sort, so I dragged myself to the doctors office. They swabbed my nose for the flu. I felt sure they would come back and tell me it was swine flu. Instead, the test was negative. What else could it be, I asked. They took my temperature. 102.8. Hmmm. And I wasn't nearly as hot as I had been the day before. I wasn't even sweating. The doctor diagnosed a kidney infection, put me on antibiotics, told me if wasn't quite a bit better or if I got even slightly worse in the next 24 hours to go straight to the ER. From the kidneys, the infection could spread to the bloodstream and turn toxic!
Wow. Was I ever validated. Anyway, I have lost 6 pounds because I havn't had much of an appetite, but I am definitely feeling at least 50% better, which means my appetite will return and I will regain the 6 pounds! Cheaters never prosper.

Darn it.

That's my story! TTFN.
P.S. Oh. The doctor said that because I experienced the exact same symptoms 6 months ago, he had to assume that wa also a kidney infection which put me in the category of "complicated" so I had to take the antibiotics for a longer period of time...Mom has already told me she will give a kidney if I REALLY need it!