{"id":786,"date":"2011-03-12T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/coughing-and-crazy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-12T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T18:57:00","slug":"coughing-and-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/coughing-and-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"coughing and crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago Thursday, I started getting a cough.  By Friday, I was  a mess.  Took the day off and spent most of the coughing, then coughing so hard I would throw up, then throwing up so hard I would get dizzy.   The weekend sucked.   Took Monday off.   Finally back to work on Tuesday, still sick.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I kept fighting it and finally gave up yesterday and went to the doctor.   The diagnosis is bronchitis and doctor go met a prescription.   I&#8217;m getting tired of the constant cough and having to sleep sitting up.  I&#8217;ve even been too tired to play video games most of the time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My room-mate has pretty much the same thing &#8211; though he has been mixing his over-the-counter meds with some disturbing results.    The lines between &#8220;reality&#8221; and &#8220;crazy talk&#8221; blurred enough that he tried to convince me that the reason we were both sick with the same thing at the same time was that we were &#8220;taken&#8221; by space aliens.     He explained that he had &#8220;awakened&#8221; at  night and seen stars on the ceiling and then they started to move &#8211; he felt like he was someplace else.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And then he got ticked when I didn&#8217;t believe him.  Really.   I tried to argue with him that his explanation was the &#8220;least likely&#8221; of possibilities instead of the &#8220;most likely&#8221;, but then I just gave up.  There&#8217;s only so much I can handle when I&#8217;m that sick and I&#8217;d already broken my number #1 rule  &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t f*@# with crazy people&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The next day he called me at work to complain about the people in his room and how a little girl plugged in her electric cat and let it run across the bed and then how someone peed on him.   That evening, when I woke up from a nap and came downstairs, he got confused between day and night.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I finally got him convinced that he really needs to stop mixing the meds and he&#8217;s doing much better now.   Still as sick as I am, but way less crazy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6913097901389264887-7113711470998988082?l=thunderofwade.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago Thursday, I started getting a cough. By Friday, I was a mess. Took the day off and spent most of the coughing, then coughing so hard I would throw up, then throwing up so hard I would get dizzy. The weekend sucked. Took Monday off. Finally back to work on Tuesday, still [&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-786","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\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}