Today: less than a month and I've gotten another UTI. It went from feeling in an especially negative mood while trying to fall asleep, to "this feels like I might have a UTI" upon waking to excruciating pain about an hour later. I guess taking cranberry extract doesn't cut it either, although it was worth one last try ;) Its nice that the urologists office is about five minutes from the house, that they gave me containers to bring urine samples in, and that they give you a days worth of antibiotics immediately before the sample is even processed. It was unfortunate that the office was closed for a staff meeting for another half hour from when I got there, but at least I had some over-the-counter UTI pain meds I could take to keep from curling up into a ball of tears on the pavement outside the office door ;) (I'd gotten in trouble for taking them prior to going to the doc for a UTI before, so I'd tried to hold out until seeing someone to find out about their procedures. As it turns out this office didn't care)

It took a few hours for the pain to go away and I couldn't get ahold of my first piano students, but thankfully by the time they arrived I was feeling a lot better. I was able to cancel the rest and sleep off the rest of the day ;)

So it is indeed antibiotics with every sexual encounter for me : The ones they gave me don't sound too bad, although thanks to Patri's good research we learned another thing the doc doesn't mention: that they lessen the absorption of folic acid. This is not good for developing babies, but I'm already taking a lot of folic acid in my prenatal vitamins, and with that knowledge can just take an internet recommended extra dose of folic acid along with the antibiotic.

In General: the last few weeks have been a constant state of adjustment. New weirdness, getting used to it, new weirdness ;) My moods have been generally unpredictable, and generally there's been too much stimulation for me to be very thoughtful. I do have "normal" days though here and there, which are nice ;) I miss not being able to do the amount of analysis that I like, but I'm hoping that I will adjust to this state of change and get some distancing again. In the least, I've heard from Tigresa that second trimester is supposed to be better: the placenta when developed gives you an extra boost, which should hopefully mean not being tired so much or as many big mood swings.

I'm soooo glad that I dropped the association audition!! Its been plenty of work just to keep up with daily life. Tigresa cancelled plans a lot during her first trimester, and I now totally understand the need ;) Also glad that my psych class will be ending soon. While I've greatly enjoyed it, the less commitments the better for now, at least to a point ;)

That said, I've been very tempted to take on new students lately: given that the class is ending and that I've discontinued a couple of students... but I'm going to try to wait at least until after the wedding ;) Any new student who was not doing association testing would be much less work than one who was (at least, given that I am not currently experienced with associations and related procedures ;), and having a student come to my house for a half hour once a week is much less work than driving twice a week, a half hour each way to a 1.5hr class which also requires reading (and studying, although I do that so rarely that I can hardly justify counting it ;)

I need to take down my ads: I never got much action on them before, but one rather new one in particular has been getting me new interest every week or two! I'm hesitant to delete it since it required several 300 word essays, but the site never got back to me about if I could put my ad on hold. Copy paste isn't so bad though ;) Will go do that now....