3 wins and UTI

I woke up with urge to pee and peed with blood. Not a great way to start the day but I didn’t panic. It has started on Sunday during my long run, and I suspected I had UTI after some google search. The symptoms went away later in Sunday and none on Monday. I read that it is not common that UTI goes away by itself so when the symptom came back on Tuesday, I was pretty sure I had it. This is the first time, I didn’t have fever nor tiredness. The blood show was a bit scary. Then I did the most ridiculous thing:

I google: CAN YOU RUN WITH UTI?

I was relieved to find that it is okay so I went out to do my quality run. I was still concerned that I will have to stop to the bathroom every few minutes. Surprisingly that didn’t happen and I had a strong run, despite being technically sick.

I had my Physio appt at 8am, so I went there, had a good session. Then I went to my family doctor few minutes away. She did the test and confirmed it was UTI. I got one single doze antibiotics and the symptoms went away few hours later.

I went to office as I had a farewell lunch gathering for a colleague who’s leaving for DC soon. I felt I was a bit warm (low grade fever?) but otherwise felt fine. I left office 4pm.

Now into the wins:

Win #1: Sofia got into silver level in her swimming team. There are 10 levels in total (Lizzy moved from 3 to 4), she was at 7 and now she moved to 8. The only kid in her campus. I am so proud of her. The downside is that practice will be 4 times a week (instead of 3) and all in the other campus which is 25 min away without traffic. Daddy said before knowing the news that he’ll drive her if she moves up to Silver. I am so exited!!! This will affect our evening schedule as most of practices start after 4pm, but we will figure out, and I want to be with her as much as possible. What makes me the happiest is that Sofia loves swimming.

Win #2: Lizzy decided to join chess! As I mentioned, Sofia will start chess with the teacher that she had the trial out. Lizzy was not excited about the teacher, an old man. But then she asked me to play chess with her, and she was teaching me all the rules. When I asked her if she wants to join the beginner class, SHE SAID YES! 😀

Win #3: I took advantage of seeing the doctor to ask her to test my vitamin D and lipid panel as I was severely deficient with Vit D and had my cholesterol borderline high (April check up). She emailed me the results few hours later saying that I am now at optimal level in all!

I took vitamin D on and off for 3 months, that really seemed to help.

With LDL, I am puzzled that it went down from 102 to 52 in 4 months without changing much what I do. Maybe I am running more but none dietary changes. I think that the covid experience caused some metabolic change on me for a while, but it seems that it’s finally getting back to normal.

What a great Tuesday!!! Hope you had a good one too.