Oh, Those Terrible Kidneys!

I have been out. Down and out. I have Lupus and sometimes it just takes over and wipes the floor with me. Last week was one of those times. Apparently, I had a UTI and it crept up into my kidney (singular) and set up shop. It's funny how I never thought too much about my kidney. I mean, I never paid special attention to it. Actually, I rarely thought about it. Well, it made it's presence known in a big way last week. A big ugly mean way. If I didn't need my kidney, I would actually hate it. My Lupus drugs keep my immune system supressed, so I didn't actually KNOW I had an infection (not my fault kidney, I swear). My kidney actually must have thought that I didn't care at all and didn't love it enough to get fixed before it became infected, too. My kidney got mad at me. Kidneys are not good enemies. Make friends with your kidneys NOW that way they won't jump to conclusions about you and try to kill you. Because they will. Try to kill you. Will. Trust me. It hurts. But the nice ER doc wrote me a script for VICODIN....lovely. Happy pills. Take that evil kidney. I think the kidney liked them too because it stopped hurting like 20 minutes after I took them. Better living through chemistry.