There are some smart things, and some not so smart things, I did leading up to Thursday night.

Smart: Commenting on how I was feeling in my facebook posts. This meant I could go back a week and see just when the discomfort on my left side began.

Not So Smart: Ignoring the pain or treating it just with advil. Also treating the weekly UTIs I've been ( Read more... )

Ended up in the Stanford ER most of Thursday night with a kidney infection. No one knew it was a kidney infection until after a whole big battery of tests, because I wasn't exhibiting pain in the standard kidney infection places ( Read more... )