Oh Muji mate it seems to be one thing after another for you just lately :( hope you get better soon (((hugs))) love Manda xx

Oh geez. Soft healing to you. Take the antibiotics, rest up, so glad it was found out.

((hugs)) feel better.

Muji, you have stated what we must always check when there are a multitude of reasons for fatigue. Last week I had a stomach flu, not surprisingly so did many as a news report in my town posted, The do this regularly under "What's gong around portion of the news based on hospital emergency rooms.
But as a diabetic even a small fever can upset the sugar levels and increase the effects on our system. The fever was also reminiscent of the same fever that almost took me in 2012, but with no one around to check on me.

That can trigger even more symptomatic responses to things both physically and psychologically. It will make a mountain from a grain of sand.
For me the depression this time of year brings is worse when I am bed bound because my AR OA and Fibro all join the chorus. Its hard to keep the PTSD at bay when all this is going on.

People here send more virtual hugs than I usually ever get in the real world now.Unfortunately I get quiet when in emotional breakdown, so then not even those here know.

I send you prayers for healing.friendship for comfort and camaraderie in this fight.
Jewells

There is the merry-go-round and then there is the scarey-go-round.

Glad you got the handle on it and are on the road to recovery. Go muji!!!

Not taking sick days is indeed something to be proud of. But please remember that you are entitled to necessary sick leave. Sometimes the body needs extra rest to heal itself and a sick day is required. If you were my family member I'd be nagging you to take a day off around now! For real!

Your wellbeing is more important than a perfect attendance record. Your body deserves to be taken care of.

Awwww, Muji.....

I feel like I can say this, and the true meaning won't be lost on you (or on most of us, sadly):

It's hard to GET healthy when you're not healthy.

May this -- yet another hit -- pass quietly, and quickly, and ... maybe leave you with even more energy than before.

There's always the chance that it was percolating/simmering before it became "frank" or "fulminant."

Yeah. I just like those two words ;-)

Maybe you've been fighting it for a while. The antimicrobial calvary ... is here, now :-)

Feel better, my friend.

Awww, thanks, everybody. Like jewells said, I get more virtual hugs here than anywhere in the world, and not a one of them is lost on me. GRATITUDE to all.

Jewells, i don't have fibro and stuff on top of it all like you do, but I related when you wrote "But as a diabetic even a small fever can upset the sugar levels and increase the effects on our system." And then you wrote " It will make a mountain from a grain of sand."

I KNOW! I've been reining myself in, but the little snotty things a bratty student might say here and there in the course of just being themselves got to me more this week with kidney infection + diabetes. You're right. Glad I didn't act on any of those mountains I made of grains of sand, but I felt every one.

Now take the antibiotic, which has side effect warnings of more neuropathy (I have lots) and "depression," "paranoia," "suicidal thoughts or acts," "nightmares." From an antibiotic!

As the late great Gilda Radner's Roseanne Rosannadanna would put it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wdMlQn9Msg&index=17&list=PL3Pnazt6x_6f2Y677i6ASIIqbvFVL2gdv

I'm sorry you are sick with a kidney infection. When you are a diabetic and infection can make your sugars very high so please be careful and check them frequently. Sorry about the undetected diabetes. Ugh...
My thoughts and prayers are with you as always my friend.
Sending you love and light for a quick recovery. Oh yes I think its wonderful that you haven't had to take any time off but like DW said now would be the time for you to do so. You are our family so we are letting you know we care and think you need some rest from this. A kidney infection is serious for anyone but especially you my friend. Many hugs

I am glad they found out what was going on and that your are on the road to recovery. You will be feeling better in no time. While you are waiting for antibiotics to kick in, perhaps you could consider taking a day or 2 off to rest. You are pushing yourself really hard and your body is saying "hold on a minute, you need to slow it down"

Get well soon

Yeah, it's time to decompress over this tardy Spring Break we got. Wind down. Not there yet. Woke up to an email from a student first thing. Winding down takes time...

Aww muji...I am so sorry that you're going through such a rough time... I'm glad you've found out what's going on and are receiving treatment... Big hug for you ...xo

Oh so sorry Muji...I imagine you're very wiped out...rest up...glad you have an official opportunity to do so. The insight on student behavior seems very helpful and something to carry forward. I don't know why I didn't realize blood sugar level creates and can mimic mood swings...that's very interesting to me as someone with a few chronic illnesses and one on guard about diabetes because of psyche meds.

I'm sorry to hear you've got much on your plate health wise and mood/anxiety wise. I don't know how I'd fare without a med as a shield to deflect ptsd effects.

Resorative spring break my friend xx

Thanks for the good health wishes. I started my antibiotics last night and took the advice you all gave me. I slept in, which I never do. I stayed in, and then in the afternoon I slept again. I hope to use this Spring Break to get over this infection and get back on my feet.

I agree with those who say I've been pushing myself too hard and deserve to take a sick day. I have been trying not to because I work for young energetic bosses who don't seem to get chronic illness. They work out at school in our school gym and make a point of coming back to their offices in stylish track suits for all to see. Geez, it's like the energetic youthful administration of Pres. John F. Kennedy and its Camelot crew. Then there's broken down fat old Santa Claus-looking me with his chronic kidney failure and his PTSD.

In the first year of my diagnosis I missed 6 sick days, and my young boss sent HR to my office by surprise to ask if I needed to be let go to go on disability. Even if she meant well, that was NOT the way to show support someone who works for you. It made me realize how much she didn't get it, and how I could end up in a lawsuit with her having to explain it that way.

So I've tried hard to have the best attendance record I can. I knew that, despite good intentions and anti-discrimination laws, eyes were upon me--hers and those of the human resources staff she sent to my office.

I come up for tenure at my community college next year, and despite how anti-discrimination laws say we're all equal, I know if I get tenure I'll be on stronger footing to defend my rights. Then I'll feel more protected about taking my sick days.

I was laid off after only one year and in May, too, by the last college I worked for, for "budget" reasons. In fact, I know they hired a younger professor in my place--she and I have been in contact and know each other. So I know colleges can get around having to give cause and can in fact discriminate against workers due to their age and health. No one is out to get me, I'm well liked, I do a good job, I like my boss a lot. But I know the score, too. Business is business, even at a college.

That's why I thank you so much for your support. 1 more year, and if I get tenure, I feel I'll be out of the woods on this. Gratitude to all!