{"id":11068,"date":"2014-01-25T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2014-01-25T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:48:42","slug":"sick-daze-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11068","title":{"rendered":"Sick daze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I don&#8217;t know about you, but I had a kind of a terrible week.<\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11066\">that whole kerfuffle on Tuesday<\/a>, when I missed the Broadway show I had been planning to see, but after that, I thought everything was going to go back to normal.<\/p>\n<p>And then on Friday I got sick.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up that morning a few hours before I normally do, and that&#8217;s when the vomiting began. I&#8217;ll spare you any more of the graphic details. It&#8217;s enough to say that I spent a long and uncomfortable day at home, lying in bed, occasionally turning to Twitter or my work e-mail when I could, trying to sleep when I couldn&#8217;t. Later that night my fever spiked at close to 103, but at least by then I was able to hold down enough water to swallow some Tylenol, which seemed to make a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m much better today. The fever&#8217;s not gone completely, but it&#8217;s in the much more manageable double digits, and I&#8217;m actually managing to hold down solid food. (This being toast and rice pudding, all-day-meal of champions.) I even finally took a shower, brushed my teeth, and put my glasses back on. And I&#8217;m writing this. Whatever I had isn&#8217;t <i>completely<\/i> gone, but it seems to have done most of its damage in a real hurry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not doing anything much more adventurous today than eating rice pudding. I&#8217;m still lying in bed &#8212; new clean sheets, though &#8212; and watching episodes of <i>Scandal<\/i> and <i>Supernatural<\/i> (both ridiculous in their own charming ways).<\/p>\n<p>The one silver lining in all this &#8212; beyond the fact that I <i>am<\/i> feeling better &#8212; is that the team outing I missed on Friday, the lunch and museum visit with my colleagues I missed in favor of retching and sleeping, has been postponed. I was looking forward to that, and I&#8217;d have been sorry to have missed it. I&#8217;m glad they were able to reschedule it. I would have made lousy company yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I don&#8217;t know about you, but I had a kind of a terrible week. There was that whole kerfuffle on Tuesday, when I missed the Broadway show I had been planning to see, but after that, I thought everything was going to go back to normal. And then on Friday I got sick. I &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11068\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,28,17,52],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}