Mon 18 Dec 2023
I’ve lost a lot of time and energy to a stubborn UTI since Thursday, but after being on meds since Friday, I think my wheels are finally back on track. Back in action soon!
(*) If you don’t know what a UTI is, incurred by me following a semi-annual bladder checkup the week before, you can Google it. But even if you do know, what I know is that you don’t want to have one…
December 18th, 2023 at 7:03 pm
Glad to hear you are on the mend, not a pleasant experience at all and I believe can be fairly serious if left unchecked.
Keep those wheels on the track and be healthy for the holidays.
December 18th, 2023 at 8:57 pm
Get well soon, Steve!
December 18th, 2023 at 10:30 pm
Steve,
There is probably a less invasive test, check it out because life is tough enough without being laid low by the cure. Take care my friend.
December 18th, 2023 at 10:59 pm
To know what’s going on in a bladder, they have to see for themselves (a video camera). To clear out the debris, it’s slash and burn time. Just maybe a little too invasive this time, but with only a weekend semi-lost, I’ll take it.
And as I said, the wheels are back on track. Thanks all for the good thoughts!
December 19th, 2023 at 12:45 pm
No fun at all! Hope you’re feeling better soon.
December 19th, 2023 at 5:11 pm
Steve,
I thought you taught mathematics at UTI for awhile. No? https://www.uti.edu/
December 19th, 2023 at 9:05 pm
Well, that caught me by surprise. And in spite of the initials, it’s a real thing, with its own Wikipedia page.
“Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (UTI) is a private for-profit system of technical colleges throughout the United States.”
Now I suppose someone will tell me there’s a real Sam Houston Institute of Technology…
December 20th, 2023 at 3:57 pm
Sorry, Steve…cranberry sauce of the more natural kind, a little early? Cranberry juice (likewise) usually helps me out, though I’ve had less aggressive provocation of the ureter than what you imply…I actually cut the tartness with equal measures of grapefruit juice, and not too much, as I’m a t2 diabetic (both juices are surprisingly sugary).
A quick recovery!
December 20th, 2023 at 5:17 pm
Cranberries are well known for attacking the UTI blues, but none were at hand when this all started. Had a dash in sauce form at Thanksgiving, but it was a small dash, and it didn’t last long enough to help. Once getting a prescription that the science of urology goes by, the need to dash to the supermarket soon diminished. For better or worse.
December 20th, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Had a number of friends male and female laid low by them. Hope you feel better soon. Getting older is not for sissies though I know guys in the twenties who had these.
Rest pamper and repeat until you are up to mischief again.
December 20th, 2023 at 5:12 pm
Right. Male or female, old or young, the affliction knows no bounds.
But … more mischief again soon!
December 21st, 2023 at 10:52 am
While cranberry juice helps urinary health, plain old water does too. The threat of dehydration increases as we get older so a conscious regimen of fluids is necessary to flush the bad bacteria away. Sadly, this also means more visits to the bathroom.
December 21st, 2023 at 11:26 am
George,
You just reminded me of the following dialogue from Dr. Strangelove:
Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can’t say I have, Jack.
Ripper: Vodka, that’s what they drink, isn’t it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that’s what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can’t quite see what you’re getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that’s what I’m getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this Earth’s surface is water. Why, do you realize that 70 percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don’t know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
December 21st, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Here we go: