Early last January my college aged daughter came down with something she thought was similar to the flu or a virus. She really had no idea and, of course, didn’t make a trip to the Doctor. At this time she was staying with her Dad, the holiday break was winding down, and the time to come back to stay with me and begin the spring semester was quickly approaching. When she did finally come back later in the month, she told me how she was feeling. She complained about prior fever, dizziness, muffled hearing, shaking, nausea, fatigue, severe headaches, an ache in her knees (that would later changed to pain) pain in her feet and she was not sleeping, even with a sleepaid.  The year before, she was suppose to find an adult Doctor but she never followed through. She ended up calling her pediatrician and came home with a migraine diagnosis. Some of the symptoms would start to come and go but she just felt worse. The first day of the new semester came and went and she ended up missing the whole first week, this was very unlike her.  The next to the last day of the month came and she now added that “it was hard to walk”. So the very next day I took her to the hospital. She was inbetween Doctors, and something was just not right, normally I wouldn’t do something like that, unless it was a true emergency. We spent several hours in the emergency room. They took blood and tested her urine too. We left there with a diagnosis of UTI and a script for some sulfa drug. She was told that was all they could do, “oh, and don’t forget to follow up with your Doctor.” So, Monday came and she went to classes, she had no choice.