Welcome to 2026. Seriously. how insane is that? Starting the year off with yelling ears and a UTI. Woot.
Yesterday I got up and got paid. Our payroll is all screwed up this week. We are switching from one HR company to internal so my pay was only for 64 hours. Effectively up to 12/31. I was supposed to get the remainder, 16 hours, tomorrow. All good right? Of course not. I get the first deposit at 5am fine, but then at 9am I get a second one to Wells and then this morning I get the second one to BoA. For whatever reason, they both pused early but that caused major confusion on our Finance side. The good news, is I am all paid and so are bills. Whatever. It's just this all came down while I was having a panic attack. Allow me to explain...
So the pee issue. It was still bad yesterday morning. Around 8:30 I got the results back from my urine test. Bacteria = MANY in all caps and bright red on the results. That and some other results were bad. The urine section was pretty much all red. Except for the one that detects cancer. Luckily that one was green. The end result was I needed antibiotics and I needed them NOW. I try calling my doctor. No answer because it's 8:30am. Okay fine. I will email them. No response. I wait until 9 and call back and get a voicemail. They're closed until the 5th. FUCK. But in the message they list ALL the emails. Cue malicious emailing. I emailed every name on that list. I also made an urgent care appointment. I made t for 2 hours out to give my PCP time to respond.
Time draws nearer and I can't wait. I print out the test results and head to urgent care. Luckily I was the only one in there. I show them the results, they agree it's a UTI, they then prescribe 5 days of antibiotics. A very aggressive one. The nurse and doc both told me I made the right choice in not waiting for my regular doc to call me. If I had let it go any longer it could have really messed things up based on my numbers. But here's the kicker - literally as I am walking out the door, my PCP calls me. We talked for a few, she validated the urgent care opinion but double the antibiotics. Now today I have to pick up a second 5 day set. She wants me on them for 10 because of the progression. Okay. After 2 doses I will say it's a HUGE improvement and I do feel much better. No complaints. Plus they were $8 for the meds so definitely no complaints. I ran a couple of other errands while I was out including getting supplies for dinner. We made pizzas last night.
I should also mention more snow all day. We went from clearing up to 2 inches. That made running all these errands even more annoying. But I got everything done in the end, took my meds, took care of everything else. It's what I do.
We watched some tv, had champagne at 11 because we knew we wouldn't make it to midnight. We were in bed by 11:30 but our neighbors let us know it was midnight with their damn fireworks. Thanks. Nothing planned for today. C works until Sunday. I am going to do laundry, dishes, and make a nice dinner for the first day of what was it again, oh year 20 fucking 26.
