{"id":1087,"date":"2004-02-17T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/02\/17\/sick_and_avoiding_doctors.html"},"modified":"2004-02-17T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T19:43:35","slug":"sick_and_avoiding_doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/02\/17\/sick_and_avoiding_doctors.html","title":{"rendered":"sick and avoiding doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you&#8217;ve ever had to deal with university&#8217;s health services, you know why i&#8217;m avoiding the doctors.  It&#8217;s worse than the emergency clinic.  But, since i&#8217;m always surprised about what my blog readers know, i thought maybe i&#8217;d ping out to you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick as a dog.  I&#8217;ve been vomiting and and off since the middle of the night and i&#8217;m trying to keep Saltine&#8217;s down as we speak.  I&#8217;ve been drinking Ginger Ale.  While i&#8217;ve managed to avoid vomiting for a few hours, i still feel nauseous as hell, particularly whenever i move.  When i sleep, i get hot flashes and can&#8217;t really sleep comfortably.  When i&#8217;m awake, it&#8217;s just perpetual dreadfulness.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t seem to have a fever.  I feel weak, but i can&#8217;t keep food down so i&#8217;m not surprised.  All of my sniffles, sore throat and the like of last week are gone.  I don&#8217;t have any obvious flu symptoms.  Even the body ache is low other than the feeling of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is food poison, but yesterday, i hate veggie sushi and an omlette.  Is it possible that i&#8217;m feeling late ramifications of Mexican food?<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything that i should be doing other than Saltine&#8217;s\/toast\/Ginger Ale\/Coke syrup (and late nite dramamine) and waiting it out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you&#8217;ve ever had to deal with university&#8217;s health services, you know why i&#8217;m avoiding the doctors. It&#8217;s worse than the emergency clinic. But, since i&#8217;m always surprised about what my blog readers know, i thought maybe i&#8217;d ping out to you. I&#8217;m sick as a dog. I&#8217;ve been vomiting and and off since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}