What do you get when you combine drinking 32 ounces of coffee a day and almost no water for about 10 days?
A lot of discomfort due to a urinary tract infection. Thank goodness for doctors and prescription antibiotics. It started Tuesday and I suffered until this morning. It’s still painful but less so. I’m usually very conscientious about consuming enough water but work has been so busy the last two weeks and I’ve been tired, and you know the story.
Drink water!!
But my pain does not compare — at all — with the news below. I would not have wanted to be on those trains, nor a relative or friend of the victims. My heart goes out to them as well as those who died.
Second person killed by commuter train today
By Kimra McPherson, Mercury NewsA Caltrain commuter train has struck and killed a second person today, halting service in the Redwood City area around noon.
No other information was immediately available on the Redwood City death, but an alert on the Caltrain Web site said buses would take passengers around the scene.
Service had been stopped earlier this morning when a man who stepped in front of a train was killed near the downtown Mountain View station at about 7:15 a.m., Caltrain spokesman Jonah Weinberg said. One woman was hit by debris during the collision and taken to a local hospital for treatment, said Mountain View Police spokesman Jim Bennett.
Trains had been running through the Castro Street station on a single track since about 9:15 a.m. until the second fatality halted service again.
Coffee must be regarded as a kind of medicine. Caffeine increases heart rate, blood pressure, puts more blood sugar into circulation, is a diuretic…the example problem. I consume only 7 oz per day at 7 am, then nothing more. The effect lasts eight hours. This handles the satisfaction of the addiction to caffeine. An additional two liters of water per day…one in daytime and one in nighttime…keeps kidneys working. Two glasses of cranberry juice will help prevent bladder infections. Good luck!
Bill