{"id":773,"date":"2011-01-07T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/very-sick\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:10:00","slug":"very-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/very-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"very sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday afternoon, I conducted two back to back training sessions at work and started to lose my voice.  I didn&#8217;t think much of it &#8211; I&#8217;m not used to talking for 3 hours solid.    Once I stopped talking, though, it didn&#8217;t get better.  The next day at work, I had a sore throat and I sounded really bad.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thursday morning I woke up and felt like crap.   Terrible sore throat, horrible headache.  I got out of bed just long enough to sent a &#8220;I feel like crap and I&#8217;m not coming into work&#8221; email and make an appointment to see the doctor that afternoon.  One of my co-workers had to go to the emergency room with Strep throat recently and I was worried that I had the same thing. <\/div>\n<div>So, Thursday afternoon I headed to the doctor&#8217;s office and got the diagnosis &#8211; strep.  He prescribed some antibiotics and sent me on my way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I started taking them last night, but before they could do any good, I got much worse.  I had the chills, some nausea, and my fever spiked at 100.5 degrees.  Kinda scary.  I went from sweating like crazy to shivering.  All the while, I was in and out of this really messed up dream where I was trying to react to a constantly changing series of disasters.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was still feeling rough this morning, but I took my medicine and tried to be productive.  Got through most of my work email and I&#8217;m working on laundry now.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s funny how quickly things can go from same old, same old to really, really bad.    I&#8217;m doing better  &#8211; though my throat is still sore &#8211; and I should be back to work on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Time to go gargle some salt water and see if that helps.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-1854766982175621097?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday afternoon, I conducted two back to back training sessions at work and started to lose my voice. I didn&#8217;t think much of it &#8211; I&#8217;m not used to talking for 3 hours solid. Once I stopped talking, though, it didn&#8217;t get better. The next day at work, I had a sore throat and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}