I was right to suspect I have a kidney infection because I do. Between the flank pain and the burning down below, I knew I had to jump on it and do something. My doctors replied within minutes after I messaged them at 3:30 in the morning. I hope they’re that fast with the new insurance/app!

They changed my antibiotic and had me go to the lab again. They want to see if there’s still no bacteria showing up. I was able to get one of the first appointments at 5:40 after having to wake poor Tom up. I don’t know what I would do without this guy. I would be so lost! Honestly, because I don’t drive I don’t see how I could survive even if I wanted to live alone and hated him, LOL. Not just because I don’t drive but for a million other reasons as well.

Anyway, after we left the lab that I’m getting to know a little too well that I can practically find my way around in my sleep and have come to recognize most of the staff, we came home and went to bed not too long afterward since I’m on nights now.

Tom got up before me and picked up the new antibiotic which is called Ciprofloxacin. They included these little things that dissolve in your mouth for if I get nauseous. They said if I can’t keep the stuff down I’ll have to go to Urgent Care for an injection. Luckily, I had no problem with the first dose which I took at 8:00 p.m. since they asked that I wait 6 hours after taking my thyroid medication. They said if my symptoms don’t improve or get worse I still need to go to Urgent Care. I hope I don’t have to go there! Not just because no one wants to be bad enough to have to go there but our insurance hasn’t changed yet and it would cost us quite a bit of money to go before January.

They said they want daily reports and will set up reminders for that.

Right now I’m just really tired between the infection and not sleeping well. I woke up after less than 5 hours of sleep and then I slept a couple of hours later on. Sleeping in chunks like that tends to leave me tired.

Still struggling with the mask which is making my nose sore. I want to see if I can get the supply company to give me the headgear with the hose sticking off the top of the head because I think that would make it easier to sleep on my stomach than the hose that extends down from the bottom of the nasal pillow. I got in 2 hours with it today so I’ll try to get another couple of hours at some point. Maybe I’ll go throw it on now. I’m on lots of liquids and bed rest so I’m relaxing in the dark with Babbling Brook playing on the lowest volume of my Alexa and it’s really relaxing. I wish this was all I needed to sleep with but even if everything outside was dead quiet, I would need more than that to mask his movements around the house.