Hi. I am a 50-year-old retired professor with Parkinson's disease. I am very active. About one year ago I incurred a small puncture wound by a stick [the size of a shish kebab stick] in my R leg while I was hiking out of a woodland in southern Illinois.
Within one hour the pin prick sized injury was the size of a silver dollar and pouring out of it was an awful material that appeared to be raw hamburger meat. I got myself to the emergency room quickly and was diagnosed with a virulent staph infection.
Fortunately, after 2 or 3L of IV fluid containing some exotic antibiotics, the staph was defeated. The emergency room physician told me that if I had waited even one more hour that he would have to had to amputate my leg.
While this was enough to capture my attention, I experienced a secondary problem of equal magnitude. I was diagnosed with acute kidney failure that was probably a 'side effect' of the powerful antibiotics. Recently, almost one year later I landed in the emergency room again. Though my 'numbers' had gone back to normal after the first incident , once again I was faced with the frightening diagnosis of acute kidney failure. While the mechanism of injury was more difficult to unequivocally nail down, my physician is quite certain that it was the consequence of taking prescribed Ibuprofen for my chronic back pain. I must admit that I have not been drinking enough water since my early 20s . I developed this habit of holding back on water during my years working on a US Forest Service Hot Shot wildfire fighting crew during that time of my life. I believe this factor also set me up for kidney failure later in life After all, we were heroic and invincible.
Heroic ? Perhaps. Invincible? Nope! I share this story with all due respect to the 19 firefighters who perished just a little over a year ago. I hope my story can be passed along as a teaching tool for others who work in this occupation.

My question is this: are there any failsafe prevention habits that I can add to my daily routine in order to reduce my risk for developing a acute kidney disease again?