{"id":499,"date":"2003-01-18T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-499.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"diseased-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/01\/18\/diseased-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Diseased (update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was sick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2003\/01\/08\/diseased\/\">last week<\/a>.  I was.  And I thought I was getting better.  By last Saturday my voice was starting to get back to normal, the sore throat was easing up, and my blocked nose felt like it was clearing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no it wasn&#8217;t.  It was just revving up for a massive sinus and ear infection.  On Sunday and Monday I was double-dosing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemsip.com\/\">Lemsip<\/a> and Sudafed, but that wasn&#8217;t cutting through either the congestion or the pain.  (Note to self:  pseudoephedrine makes me nauseous.  Avoid in future.)  I saw my doctor on Wednesday and got tooled up with some antibiotics, which finally seem to be doing the trick.  It&#8217;s only today that I&#8217;ve been able to get through the day using  just paracetamol, instead of topping up with ibuprofen.<\/p>\n<p>And I can finally smell again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was sick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2003\/01\/08\/diseased\/\">last week<\/a>.  I was.  And I thought I was getting better.  By last Saturday my voice was starting to get back to normal, the sore throat was easing up, and my blocked nose felt like it was clearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}