{"id":13593,"date":"2011-02-09T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/02\/09\/13593.html"},"modified":"2011-02-09T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T02:27:10","slug":"cold-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/02\/09\/cold-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Went to see a doctor yesterday. (Technically a Physician's Assistant.)<\/p>\n<p>She told me the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>It can't be just a cold, because no cold lasts more than 10-14 days. (At least three doctors have told me previously that my past multi-week illnesses were just colds. I'm not sure who to believe.)<\/li>\n  <li>She couldn't detect anything wrong other than post-nasal drip. (She prescribed a nasal spray that I've used before, a few years ago, without any effect. She said it might take two weeks to show any significant effect.)<\/li>\n  <li>She thought it was possible I might have a minor sinus infection, so she prescribed antibiotics. (I am always reluctant to do antibiotics, but when I pushed back, she said that without them, it might take several more weeks to get over it if I do have a sinus infection. So I got the antibiotics.)<\/li>\n  <li>She thought it was possible I might have allergies. (As far as I know, I've never been allergic to anything, but it's possible.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, she wasn't sure what was wrong, but she offered some possible paths toward improvement, and I figure it can't hurt to follow those paths.<\/p>\n<p>While I was there, they gave me a tetanus\/whooping cough vaccine shot (it's been a while since I had a tetanus shot, and they're apparently now combining that with pertussis vaccine), and they cleaned the excess wax out of my ears. Full-service medical appointment!<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, it occurs to me that perhaps taking a dose of DayQuil four hours before the appointment was not my wisest choice; it may've masked some symptoms. But without the DayQuil, I suspect I would've been too miserable to make it to the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I'm feeling a bit better, but still sick. And I'm ridiculously cold&mdash;the heat is turned up in my house, and I'm bundled up in semi-winter clothing, and I'm still shivering. Kam suggests I may have a fever, but I can't find my thermometer. Perhaps I will take a hot bath or drink some tea or something.<\/p>\n<p>At some point I will blog about something other than this cold. I'm mostly only writing this entry to provide followup info to those who recommended that I go see a doctor.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see a doctor yesterday. (Technically a Physician&#8217;s Assistant.) She told me the following: It can&#8217;t be just a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}