{"id":1580,"date":"2009-03-09T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2009-03-09T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T20:55:25","slug":"down-with-the-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1580","title":{"rendered":"Down with the sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something like <a href=\"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1506\">week four of my being sick<\/a>. \u00a0Did you know that &#8220;sick&#8221; and &#8220;suck&#8221; are separated by one small letter? \u00a0True. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I went to the doctor last week because my cough never went away, but my regular doctor was on vacation and this other lady told me I was having bronchial spasms (something I&#8217;ve never had in my life), gave me some Advair and this awful cough medicine that doesn&#8217;t stop coughing but makes me sleep, so I cough in my sleep, which is annoying, and she sent me on my way.  Coincidentally, that was the last day of my sinus infection antibiotics.  <\/p>\n<p>Two days later, I had a 101 fever and was coughing so much that I couldn&#8217;t even talk to anyone because it would set off this chain reaction cough that would last for what seemed like half an hour, during which I could see my husband&#8217;s eyes dart to the clock, the car keys, and mentally calculate how far away the ER was.  <\/p>\n<p>My regular doctor was back today and he X-rayed my chest and sinuses.  Verdict: still have a sinus infection.  I get to take these high-octane meds now: Levaquin (ruptured tendons!) and Prednisone (steroids!).  At least he prescribed the good, worky cough medicine that allows me to have some sort of rudimentary function.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, I guess that&#8217;s good news &#8211; at least I know what&#8217;s wrong with me now.  I can assure you that husbandly sympathy pretty much trickles away after about week 2.  Also, he stepped on a nail this weekend, so I had to sympathy back at him, swimmy head and all, when all I wanted to do was wooze.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, the radishes are going great guns, and the carrots and peas made an appearance this morning.  They&#8217;re forecasting temps down to 40 this weekend, which could mean 25 and could mean 50, knowing this area.  I still have to wait to plant the other stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something like week four of my being sick. \u00a0Did you know that &#8220;sick&#8221; and &#8220;suck&#8221; are separated by one small letter? \u00a0True. \u00a0 Anyway, I went to the doctor last week because my cough never went away, but my regular doctor was on vacation and this other lady told me I was having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}