{"id":80,"date":"2008-02-06T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/02\/06\/really-quite-ill-actually\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:11:42","slug":"really-quite-ill-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/02\/06\/really-quite-ill-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Quite Ill, Actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the other day that one of my tonsils had become swollen and got some blotches on it.  I didn't think much of it other than to keep an eye on it.  It got worse over the weekend so first thing Monday I went to the doctor's office.  Of course, I had to wait until the afternoon when they could fit me in and then sit around for 45 minutes for a 5-minute examination.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I might have strep throat &mdash; the only problem being that I only had a mild sore throat and I hear that with strep it's the worst sore throat you've ever had.  Well, I ended up getting diagnosed with a generic \"tonsillitis\" and prescribed heavy-duty antibiotics.  As it turns out, the infection is really very bad.  There's finally some improvement after a third of the antibiotic dose, but it's not pretty.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I really haven't been out much this week for that reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the other day that one of my tonsils had become swollen and got some blotches on it. I didn't think much of it other than to keep an eye on it. It got worse over the weekend so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/02\/06\/really-quite-ill-actually\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[409,411,410],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-day-to-day","tag-health","tag-sick","tag-strep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}