Ill again … 😔
I had such high hopes for this year. As I said a couple of posts ago, 2023 was a bit of a write off but I thought I was going into 2024 mostly recovered and ready to claw my health back. Well, “the best laid plans” and all that.
Last Tuesday I finished my lunch and promptly vomited it all back up 🤢 I didn’t really feel much worse than usual, and it was just one episode, so I called my husband and asked him to pick MiniMe up from school just in case, but assumed I’d eaten something that hadn’t agreed with me. I didn’t eat much for the rest of the day. I couldn’t face the delicious curry I’d made for dinner the night before as I still felt queasy, but I managed a bit of tea and toast and didn’t think much more of it. Until I started trying to remember if this had happened before and realised it had, in my early 20s, when I was going through a particularly bad spell of recurrent kidney infections . I only have one kidney, and it a duplex, which makes me more prone to infection. The difficulty is that I also don’t usually get any symptoms other than back pain, and these days I have back pain all the time! Luckily, because of my history, I always have a week’s worth of antibiotics at home and I’d just bought some new urine test strips so I did a quick check. My leukocytes and nitrites, both signs of infection, were positive, so I started the antibiotics that night.
Luckily, within a day or two I felt much better and I’ve been resting lots and drinking lots of water. I look the last capsule a few days ago and have been trying to get a few chores done each day without over doing it. I donated a prize to an event that happened last Friday (I make gift frames and ggreetings cards),
so I have made a start on making that and am sorting out some of the clutter in the house in the hope of being able to clear enough space to put a mat down in the living room and actually start doing some exercise! Wish me luck!
Live Well with Lisa Proctor 