First Side Effects

Well, I guess it couldn't last. Felt a little punky last night. Turns out I had a fever of about 99.6 degrees.  As the evening wore on I began to get chills and my temp climbed to about 100. Not yet at the threshold for calling the hospital (100.4 degrees), but as the night wore on temp kept going up. At 2 AM it was 100.1. We decided to call the NP at Beth Israel (BIDMC). He is an ultra-sharp guy, like having another doctor on the case. My doctor is in Greece for a week's vacation, lucky guy. The NP rescheduled my tomorrow appointment to today and off we went to Boston. Traffic in the city was terrible even though it was well past rush hour. When we got there, they did lots of blood work (including something with two little bottles that looked like those small liquor bottles?!). It looks like I either have sinusitis or an infection in the urinary tract. But my blood counts are good so no one is too worried. An antibiotic was prescribed and hopefully that will clear things up. Got to keep watching my temperature. It is 101 right now, called back to Boston, they said to keep an eye on it and call if it hits 102. That's the technical stuff. My wife has been doing all the driving, running around, nursing. She's a trooper. Tonight I'm hoping to feel well enough to watch my favorite show, The A-Team, on video, courtesy of our library.