I told her she might have a UTI. It was not normal for it to hurt that badly to pee. She denied it. I bought her a UTI test, it came out positive. She was shaking. I told her we had to go to the hospital, she thought they were period cramps.
I call a teledoc. They video chat. She explains the pain shes feeling in her lower back means it’s likely a UTI, the infection has likely reached her kidneys, and we should go to the ER immediately.
In the ER we think they’re going to just give her some antibiotics and send her home. Nope. She throws up. Things go bad fast. Her heart rate is 160. She turns a color I’ve never seen a human before.
The next 3 days were so incredibly hard. But I’m so thankful to all the medical workers that were attentive to us.
Thankfully she makes a full recovery. For a week or so she was lethargic/tired but she’s fully healthy now.
A few months before I had read a story about a woman who’s boyfriend had died from a UTI because they went to a gospital, gave him some antibiotics, and he ending up dying at home because the infection was already too progressed to fight off at home.
Had the person who evaluated my girlfriend not evaluated seriously or just sent her off that could’ve been her. I’m so thankful they admitted her and took her care seriously.
It’s scary how quickly a UTI or some other benign infection can become sepsis. Take it seriously.