Medical

I felt absolutely terrible yesterday.   My fever topped out at 102 and change.  It felt like the flu.  I did the COVID test that was negative.  And went to bed.  After sleeping for an hour or so I woke up feeling much better.  My temperature abated and eventually leveled off at normal and has stayed there.  Everything OK.

BUT, six years ago something similar happened.  More intense but the same pattern.  High temp, feel like shit, get better and low temp.  And then, wham 104 the next night (which would be tonight) and I ended up in the hospital at 1AM with sepsis threatening my kidneys.  Barely dodged a bullet there and I'm not wanting to do that again. I think what happens is my body manages to fight off the infection so that is simmers and I feel fine until it blows up again with a vengeance.  

So I knocked around and finally got a urgent care appointment for 2 this afternoon.  But my normal doc wasn't happy with that and set me up with a video which we did.  And a urine drop from which I just returned.  The doc shop is maybe two minutes from us.  It is a small clinic but is there when we need it for this kind of thing.  

I'm back and waiting for my results.  The prescription is loaded and ready if they come back positive.  It will go to the HEB that is just around the corner.  My urine looked suspiciously dark so I'm thinking that it is the UTI I feared.  If that is the case I'll be doing some kind of mycen or cillan by this afternoon.  This is one of the reasons to stay in this geographical area that I don't much like.  The care for olds is so good and I know where all the levers are.  This wasn't an emergency but might have been.  The care was perfect. 

Well, here's the wrench

An analogy I thought up during the elections to describe what MAGA wants was this scene from Good Will Hunting.  

I feel like the majority of the U.S. wants the wrench because, well, fuckem'.

Well, now we've got the wrench.  I'm already saving an enormous amount of time not reading about it.  Things are going to happen whether I like them or not and I don't feel obligated to be immersed in the minutia.  There are people who will do that.

I'm focusing on mind work.  Logic and algebra and such.  

I'm the ground hog that will pop up in four years to see whether the winter will continue.

Probably good news

They didn't find any infection in my urine so likely not to die tonight.  No fever still.  I feel a little crappy and am about to go down for a pre-game nap.  They are going to do a culture tonight to see if there is any trace of bacteria.  Or whatever.  Fungi.  

Meanwhile I'm going to nap.