Medical

[bill_schubert]

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. 

Comments

[siglinde999]

Feel better soon!

[bill_schubert]

Thanks. Fingers crossed.

[mallorys_camera]

Hope you feel better soon.

[bill_schubert]

Thank you.

[maisydaisy]

Wishing you well.

[nick_101]

Get well soon.

[bill_schubert]

Thanks. Finger's crossed.

[anais_pf]

Scary! I hope this is resolved quickly, and that you feel better.

[bill_schubert]

Thanks. Yeah, it is a bit offputting. Fingers crossed.

[msconduct]

Sounds horrible - fingers crossed it's something speedily treated.

And I think you're so right about considering access to medical help. I have two friends (sisters) who both decided to move two hours north of Auckland to two different tiny settlements. One is 65 and the other is 70. I don't bother remonstrating with people about decisions they've already made, but one of them told me she was surprised at how many people had brought up the issue of access to medical help with her. Why *wouldn't* that be an issue? It's bad enough being a long drive from help, but also they won't be driving forever and then what? When my housemate tripped and injured her eye, I was so grateful we were ten minutes away from the hospital.

[bill_schubert]

We have two major hospital systems in this area. We go to one of them but I've used the other. There is a nursing school and a junior college that provides the nursing school potential students. There is a Sun City of 70K rooftops about 10 miles north of us the result of which is that the local hospital is certified in joint replacement excellence.

It goes on and on. All within a half hour drive of us. And the local clinic is backed up by an urgent care clinic and two emergency facilities who obviously specialize in senior cardiac care within 10 miles.

And Alzheimer units and assisted living and all the rest.

Tough call to give that up. I'd much rather live in Florida but we'd have to start all over.