It's Been a While

I'd say it was around February 22nd that I first began to feel a bit off-center. Nothing major, of course. Just off. We all feel not ourselves sometimes. But as it dragged into early March and soon had a companion (back pain), some people around me began to worry. Generally, I'm a very easy going person, but I--like most people--have topics over which I'm tenacious enough to go to war. Health is one of them. I disapprove would Western medicine; it's a travesty. And I hate doctors. A lot. I'll explain more thoroughly later, but to all the premeds of the world: you may well be on your way to a profession that I hope withers away and decays from society. Not joking. Ugh.... doctors. 

But, yes; back pain. My mom and my boyfriend were easily the most insistent that I go see a doctor, and quite frankly, the nagging was enough that an hour at the doctor would actually be worth turning off the ear beating. Other factors include my hypochondriac roommate twitching that I might have meningitis and, I hate to admit, a touch of self-doubt I was beginning to have that all was well. So I went mostly, as a friend at Longwood pointed out, to show them all and shut them up. Damn. FAIL. I had a moderate working towards severe kidney infection in the left and it had spread to the right. Had I waited three or four more days, I probably would have been hospitalized. Oops.

Well over a month later, and I've still not recovered entirely. The high point was the ER, a story which I wish to do justice to and so won't condense it in this particular post. Other fun parts include the secondary infection on account of the medicine to treat the kidney infection and a few incidences I've been told because I can't remember them (drug cocktail overdose).