Starting the new year with a bang

[madbrain]

So, my new years' resolutions were :

1. go back to work full time
2. exercise 5 times a week
3. practice piano 5 times a week
4. be monogamous with my bf

Everything was going according to plan until sunday 1/6. Then I came with this terrible pain down there (you know where I mean) and thick yellow fluid. Oh, and the burning fuel sensation when peeing. This must be a result from something I did last year.

So, I ended up not going back to work full time monday (I was working 80%, and monday was my day off until now). I spent some time at the doctor's office instead. So much for #1 . And I wasn't feeling good enough to go to the gym or play, so there go #2 and #3 as well. I got a bad case of gonorrhea, a shot in the butt, and a qtip in my penis . Tuesday the test result came back - I got both gonorrhea and chlamydia. So I have to be on antibiotics for the next week for the chlamydia. And my bf had to take the shot and the med too since we just happened to have bb sex several times to start the year. For my next labs in feb I will retest for all STDs to make sure they are gone. I hope I didn't catch and transmit anything else. I used protection the one time with the other person in the 1 month incubation window for chlamydia/gonorrhea, but somehow that doesn't appear to have mattered at all, just as it didn't for our HIV infection before. Sigh. I guess I really have to use protection even with my bf. Some lessons are incredibly hard to sink in.

And I thought 2008 was going to be better.

[BT65]

We can't ever project or plan a whole year in advance, I don't think.  At least I can't.  Unexpected things come up all the time.  Good luck getting rid of those nasty bugs. 

[mjmel]

Oh! a lesson from the School of Hardknocks!
Well, you learned that the condom protection works both ways.
Doesn't mean a damn thing about what's to come in 2008. It doesn't set the mode of things to come.
Don't go getting all spooky on us.  This only happened because you had a momentary lapse of cautiousness.

Wish you a fast recovery.
Mike M

[Buckmark]

Despite our best plans and intentions, you can pretty much bet that unexpected things will come along to derail them.  So it's important to be able to be flexible and resilient, so you can get back on track.

Don't be so hard on yourself, and don't let throw away the entirety of 2008 based on this one week.  Maybe you could start again by just focusing on 1 of the resolutions on your list, instead of all of them.

Regards,

Henry