I'm actually a bladder infection virgin.
Or at least, officially anyway.
There was the time in college where I discovered orgasms and ended up at the health center. But the nurse practitioner only prescribed beets, cranberry juice, and hand jobs.
And as much as you think that I, the Mominatrix, have sex all the time, let me remind you that I have four children.
Yes, I know how they got here (original question, thanks for that one, smartasses), but it only takes one time. Or four, in my case.
And my husband travels. And we don't get much sleep.
Did I mention we have four kids?
But apparently when you raise the amount of intercouse from a couple of times a month IF YOU'RE LUCKY to a few HELL NO SLEEP IS FOR PUSSIES, and forget the ever important post-coital pee because you're old and fall asleep, you end up at the CVS Minute Clinic pissing in a cup without your insurance card.
So I've decided to send the bill to our marriage counselor because when she told us all the things that could happen to us once we started therapy she never told me about UTIs.
{photo via flickr}
Been there done that, you'd think that they'd cover this during sex ed, but for the life of me I can't remember that lecture. It sure would have saved me some pain.
Posted by: Melissa | February 23, 2013 at 12:18 AM
amen sister! from one leaving a dry spell that lasted 3 weeks and all of a sudden sex twice in 1.5 days.... i am popping those cranberry pills and chugging water. i feel your pain.
Posted by: jennifer | November 02, 2012 at 10:01 AM
From a UTI-black belt here (who once faired a hellish episode while traveling through a third world country) - take d-mannose in conjunction with cranberry capsules. You'll be ready to, ahem, continue to work on your marital issues in two days tops.
Posted by: ivy | November 01, 2012 at 01:24 AM
Lesson learned but...yay for sexytimes, woo!
Posted by: G | October 31, 2012 at 03:57 PM
Cranberry juice, man. Only time I ever drink it. Not the most positive association.
Posted by: Julie Marsh | October 31, 2012 at 01:14 PM
Makes perfect sense to me. Teach that bitch a lesson.
Posted by: Diana | October 31, 2012 at 01:07 PM
One of my best guy friends who was... prolific with the partners at a much earlier age than me, told me about the whole pee afterwards thing. Didn't stop me from getting repeat infections from my vibrator that I didn't learn how to sanitize properly however.
My sympathies. They suck.
Posted by: A. Sprout | October 31, 2012 at 12:50 PM