Being sick and stuff sucks to the 100th power
So I wake up on Saturday morning feeling like complete shit. I had crashed at my friend's house off campus, so I got up and walked back to my dorm room debating whether or not I should call out of work cuz I felt like I had a fever. Of course, being a college student, I had no medical supplies besides a bottle of ibuprofin, so I couldn't tell exactly how bad my fever was. Either way I called out of work and let my dad know not to come and get me. After that I tried taking some medicine and some fluid in attempt to break the fever so I could rest until the heath services opened back up on Monday. Don't ya know with my luck that i threw up the water and meds, making me feel like even more shit. I didn't want to call my mom yet because she would most likely make me come home, which i didn't want to do with exams and all, so i decided to go to Germantown ER to see what they could do. I had my friend Andrea and Becky take me. Once I was there I threw up again the gatorade that i had drank on the way over, and the doctor determined that it was a UTI and that he was sending some samples to the lab. The weird thing was (after having many UTIs in my life) I had none of the symptoms. Either way they made sure that I could take tylenol for my fever and antibiotics so they gave me a shot to calm my stomach. I wasn't feeling to sick after that, so I ate some dinner then watched tv with Becky. Since my room was in shambles, my roommate gone, and a window was open that i couldn't close, I grabbed my air mattress and slept in Jess's room that night, throwing up again in the middle of the night. My parents came the next day to check up since I had midly informed them of what was going on. I spent most of that day sleeping in my own room, not being able to get much work done since, with my luck it happened to be finals week. The next day I woke up feeling even worse, with my glands all swollen and junk. So I called my mom not knowing what to do.... my roomate kept prompting me to just get through the week cuz my teachers would most likely fail me for not showing up, and not taking sickness as an excuse. Of course my mom being a mother came up and took me to health services, who told me that I couldn't be there. Then I contacted all of my teachers and luckily made arrangements for a makeup. As soon as I got home I started throwing up more so my mom took me to the ER and Lady of Lourdes. After like 4 hours of sitting there in pain and throwing up a bunch of times, they finally took me. They did some blood work and gave me an iv since I wasn't keeping anything down. The bloodwork showed that I had a kidney infection, so they admitted me for a few days. I finally got out last night, and I feel 100% better. Two of my professors are letting me make up the exam next week, and the other one is letting me make it up the beginning of next semester. I'm at home now for a month, so yea come visit me damnit! Anyway I didn't get too much sleep last night, so back to bed I return.