{"id":1702,"date":"2008-02-21T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2008-02-21T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T16:12:41","slug":"on-feeling-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"On Feeling Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s all Glenn Hauman<\/a>‘s fault.<\/p>\n

At Farpoint Glenn made a point of saying, “You can’t get sick. You can’t take vacation. You can’t die. There’s a whole industry riding on your shoulders.”<\/p>\n

Not that I’m disagreeing with Glenn, but he jinxed it.<\/p>\n

I. Am. Sick.<\/p>\n

Today I’ve done something I have never<\/i> done.<\/p>\n

I called in sick to work.<\/p>\n

Friday I had a tingle in my throat. And it passed.<\/p>\n

Saturday? Nothing.
\nSunday? Nothing.
\nMonday? Nothing.<\/p>\n

Tuesday? My throat didn’t feel scratchy, but I had a weak cough, and my lungs feel congested. Actually, they felt like there was gunk<\/i> hanging inside them.<\/p>\n

Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In the morning I felt good. I had a headache, but that was about it. Then as the day wore on my throat caught on fire, a cough developed, and I couldn’t get warm. I sat in my cubicle, wearing my winter coat and huddled over the computer. I wasn’t warm enough.<\/p>\n

On the drive home, I had the heater in the Beetle cranked all<\/i> the way up. Maximum temperature, maximum blow strength. I still wasn’t warm enough.<\/p>\n

When I got home, I got under the covers. I needed blankets. I had my winter coat on under the covers. I was getting warm enough.<\/p>\n

When I went to bed, I did<\/i> strip down. And around three this morning, I woke up and had to change what I was wearing; I’d sweated so much during the night that I was soppy.<\/p>\n

I do have a cough today. And it’s a painful cough. It feels like things are ripping apart in my lungs when I “hack.”<\/p>\n

So I’m at home today. Taking cold medicine. Taking cough syrup. Drinking Sprite, which I really don’t like, so I’m mixing it with orange juice.<\/p>\n

We hates the sickness, Precious. We hates it. Why does it makes us hurt so, Precious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all Glenn Hauman‘s fault. At Farpoint Glenn made a point of saying, “You can’t get sick. You can’t take vacation. You can’t die. There’s a whole industry riding on your shoulders.” Not that I’m disagreeing with Glenn, but he jinxed it. I. Am. Sick. Today I’ve done something I have never done. I calledContinue reading “On Feeling Sick”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}