{"id":754,"date":"2013-01-25T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T00:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/?p=754"},"modified":"2013-03-18T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:02:19","slug":"no-sick-free-year-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/2013\/01\/25\/no-sick-free-year-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No Sick-Free Year this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping to go a year without ever getting sick in the winter. This winter is not exactly over, but I had not yet gotten a cold, so I was hopeful. Unfortunately the streak came to an end last night. Even though because of my <acronym title=\"Social Anxiety Disorder\">SAD<\/acronym>, I almost never go out and avoid people when I do, my mother not only goes out several times per week, but she is around lots of old people when she does, so she can easily bring home some bugs.<\/p>\n<p>I was fine yesterday morning, but by the afternoon I was feeling nauseous, stiff, and chilly. I immediately recognized these as the symptoms I always get from the common cold. There\u2019s lost of treatments for the cold that people recommend, so I combined a bunch of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I made myself a cup of noodle soup (mostly just warm water).<\/li>\n<li>I had a small piece of bread with it so that I could eat a bunch of onion and garlic (antibiotics).<\/li>\n<li>I had an orange and popped a vitamin-C tablet.<\/li>\n<li>I wrapped myself in sweaters, a robe, and piled up the hot-water bottles.<\/li>\n<li>I went to bed early to get as much sleep as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It worked. The next morning I was feeling fine and have been all day.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have to try again next year. At least I haven\u2019t (yet?) had a runny nose this winter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/tag\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/tag\/social-anxiety\/\" rel=\"tag\">Social-Anxiety<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping to go a year without ever getting sick in the winter. This winter is not exactly over, but I had not yet gotten a cold, so I was hopeful. Unfortunately the streak came to an end last night. Even though because of my SAD, I almost never go out and avoid people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health","tag-social-anxiety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}