I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Worst worst worst worst for me, getting up and down off the toilet. And we are talking the raised ones, the higher ones. Alas. You have the sympathy of every nerve in my body. Just want you to know that this, too, will pass.
I read all my FIL lab results that way , as well as doctors notes etc when he has been at the hospital .
I’m not confident a live person would even answer a phone in the lab these days .
And it’s great that they told her she has a UTI, but is anyone calling in a script ? By now they have the sensitivity results of the urine C&S. Meaning they have cultured the specimen and tested to see what antibiotics it is sensitive to .
Hopefully they call in a script or send the lab results to her primary doctor who can call in a script . If her primary doctors office uses the same medical records system as the hospital , the primary doctor should be able to see the record on the computer . Where I live most doctors and hospitals uses EPIC .
In the past when I had frequent UTIs they often didn't show in the UA. They only showed in the culture. She should call the lab and be certain. Results, if they come through the computer, expected in about three days. I always recommend a culture. Glad she got her results.
I have never had a UTI so I personally have no clue as to how they feel.
My oldest daughter has them. It sounds like they are very uncomfortable.
My mom got them occasionally. Her brother had one that turned septic and nearly died.
He was a bit stubborn and insisted on staying in his house when he could no longer care for himself. My cousins finally convinced him to go to a nursing home after he dealt with sepsis.
Lo and behold, she texts me this am that she's gotten a message from the hospital --positive UTI culture.
I would not know this stuff if I hadn't been hanging out here since 2011! Thank you all.
Backs are about as individual as our own thumbprint, but for me it is the bend and reach that gets it every time (think bedmaking).
Looked for your update all yesterday, and was thinking of you. Be real careful while there is nerve pain. And once it goes to muscle spasm you can move around more. NO SITTING. Semi-fowlers or up or walking or laying.
GOOD LUCK.
Did you try ice or a heating pad ?
Hope that this passes as quickly as possible. Glad you’re going to the doctor tomorrow.