Hi from Duckon

I am currently posting from Duckon, a science fiction convention near Chicago. If you don't see me online, that's why. The hotel the convention is in has free wi-fi in the lobby (which is why I can post this) and free high-speed Internet for guests. But we're not staying at the same hotel. The one we are staying at has high-speed (wired) Internet in the rooms, but it costs $13 per day. Sigh.

My wife wants me not to wet my diapers at the convention, but says it's OK to wet them when we're back at our hotel. I reluctantly agreed to this -- I think it's a setback on my road to needing diapers all the time, and I did agree to drive her here as a big favor to her. But she got really upset about it -- mostly she talked about the odor issues, but I don't think that's really it. So when we're away from the hotel, I'm trying to go potty frequently so I don't wet myself without thinking. In the hotel room last night, I wet my diaper three times while I was asleep (and she said she didn't smell anything). But when I say I wet my diaper three times, I don't mean that I flooded it -- I don't wet very much at a time anymore.

Anyway, if you don't see me online this weekend, it's because I'm not going to be able to be online much. We're driving back Sunday afternoon and will be back Sunday evening.

Here we go again with the antibiotics

Well, the doctor said there were red and white blood cells as well as epithelial cells in my urine test, and those are usually a sign of some kind of infection, so it's back on Cipro for a couple weeks, but at least that will make the weird odor go away and make my wife happier. Normally she can't smell my wet diapers unless I go without changing them for hours for some reason.

Happier wife = happier everybody. 8:-)

Return of the infection?

Some of you might know that I've been having problems with a recurring bladder/prostate infection over the past 2 years. Antibiotics clear it right up, but it keeps coming back. The first symptom is that, well, my wet diapers start smelling really bad. First time it happened I wasn't in diapers but I noticed that odor when I used the potty, and weeks later I started having aches and a fever and went to the doctor, so I started paying attention to that early warning after that. I've had all kinds of tests and they can't figure out why it keeps coming back, but my wife (with her preternaturally acute sense of smell) hates it when I'm in diapers that she can smell, so it's doubly in my interest to keep it under control.

That's the summary of what has gone before. Well, over the last couple weeks I've started smelling that smell again, and now my wife has too -- I was hoping it was just my imagination or something I ate. I'm going to have to call the doctor again tomorrow. I wonder if they'll put me through all the urinalysis and stuff or whether they'll just give me antibiotics. They haven't figured out what caused it before; I doubt they'll figure it out this time. And we're going out of town Thursday through Sunday ...