{"id":687,"date":"2011-10-14T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/10\/14\/111014-beingsick\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T03:23:15","slug":"111014-beingsick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/10\/14\/111014-beingsick\/","title":{"rendered":"Ill Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the doctor says I have a &#8220;touch&#8221; of bronchitis. Sounds so delicate and gentle, doesn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s not really how I&#8217;d describe what I felt last night after midnight, when I was still up, coughing. But at least we have something to treat now, instead of the elusive, generic &#8220;allergies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Got a steroid shot, meaning that I&#8217;ve had two shots this week, the other being a flu shot on Wednesday. I can&#8217;t remember the last time I had an injection&#8230;or the last time I was sick enough to require a visit to the doctor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I blame it on work. I never caught anything from my computer when I was home with it. On the other hand, at least I can afford a visit to the doctor. Also, today is my day off, giving me plenty of free time to sit in a waiting room. So, I&#8217;ve got that going for me.<\/p>\n<p>On the other other hand, I actually feel pretty good, for a sick person. I have enough friends who are <b>really<\/b> ill right now that I have no problem keeping things in perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the doctor says I have a &#8220;touch&#8221; of bronchitis. Sounds so delicate and gentle, doesn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s not really how I&#8217;d describe what I felt last night after midnight, when I was still up, coughing. But at least we have something to treat now, instead of the elusive, generic &#8220;allergies.&#8221; Got a steroid shot,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/10\/14\/111014-beingsick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ill Feelings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-fitness","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}