{"id":1042,"date":"2010-01-07T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T12:52:42","slug":"im-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/01\/im-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the kind of sick that means really great, but the kind that means no one should come near me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s your basic head cold.  I&#8217;m also pretty sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybaxter.com\/post\/320073312\/hey-guys-sorry-about-the-camera-tease-turns\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda <\/a>gave it to me when we spoke on the phone on Tuesday evening.  Either that, or <a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggess.com\/?p=5168\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny<\/a> gave it to me when I read her on New Year&#8217;s Eve and it had a long incubation period.  It had to be one of them, &#8216;cuz no one else I know has it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s surrounding me now.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sickie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1043\" title=\"sickie\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sickie.jpg\" alt=\"cold remedies\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sickie.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/sickie-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn case you can&#8217;t recognize everything in the photo, I&#8217;ll explain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting at the left, there&#8217;s the omnipresent box of kleenex.  It has to always be within reach, &#8216;cuz the nose is dripping like a faucet.<\/li>\n<li>Then comes the wide array of tonics: elderberry elixir, echinacea tincture, respiratory relief tincture, vitamin C, and zinc, all designed to kick the cold in the butt.<\/li>\n<li>Hiding behind all those bottles is the aspirin, essentially for fighting the inevitable headache, and the thermometer, to see if I really do have a fever.<\/li>\n<li>Then there&#8217;s the herbal teas designed to both fight the germs and soothe my throat, particularly when paired with the honey.<\/li>\n<li>Behind it all is the orange juice and water &#8211; you know, rest in bed &amp; drink plenty of fluids.  That&#8217;s all well &amp; good until you have to get up <em>4 times<\/em> during the night to pee.<\/li>\n<li>The little jar to the left of my tea cup partners with the blue calico fabric; the first contains an herbal version of vapo-rub, the second wraps around my neck and chest to keep all those herbs in place while I&#8217;m sleeping.<\/li>\n<li>The little box on the right is for all those snotty kleenex.  Have to have at least one garbage container in each room &#8212; although I can carry the kleenex box around, I&#8217;m not carrying the garbage bin around with me.<\/li>\n<li>The book?  That&#8217;s just for looks.  I can&#8217;t really stay awake long enough to read, but it helps me maintain the illusion that I can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I should have known I was getting sick when my hair started hurting mid-day on Tuesday.  I just didn&#8217;t read the signs right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your turn &#8212; what&#8217;s your favorite cold remedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the kind of sick that means really great, but the kind that means no one should come near me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s your basic head cold. I&#8217;m also pretty sure that Amanda gave it to me when we spoke on the phone on Tuesday evening. Either that, or Jenny gave it to me [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}