{"id":28,"date":"2005-12-15T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T01:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2005-12-15T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T01:39:28","slug":"sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate being sick, but normally I can suffer through it.  What I can&#8217;t stand on the other hand, is having a fever.  I never really had fevers when I lived in Tennessee, but for some reason, ever since I moved to California, every time I come down with even the slightest cold, I manage to run a fever along with it.  When it comes to having a fever I am a little baby.  All I want to do is curl up into a little ball on my bed and cry.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this up because there is currently a nasty little bug running around work.  Coughing, headaches, and really really bad fevers.  Of course being the lucky guy that I am, I managed to contract this along with everyone else.  It was an absolute nightmare, for 3 days of solid fever.  Not only was I sick, but my roommate was sick as well.   Get up for awhile in the morning, down some Theraflu, sleep for a bit longer, take some Advil, check email, sleep, and when the coughing got to bad to sleep, I got to make some half hearted attempts at game playing.  I was wrapped up like a burrito trying to sweat out my fever, and all in all.. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend the experience to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing that comes close to being that sick, is watching a close friend get sick as well. She started getting sick a bit after me, so after I battled my way out of my fever and was coherent of the world again, I started worrying about her.  Psychologically I am a fixer.  I see someone who needs help and it breaks my heart faster than anything.  So seeing someone else laid out that badly about drove me nuts.  There is not a lot you can do for them except comfort them while they wait it out, but yet I feel like there is something more I could do to help.  Of course she has plenty of people dropping off the drugs and medications, so all that is left to give is a sympathetic ear, which in it&#8217;s own way is a help.. or at least I hope it is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tell.fll.purdue.edu\/JapanProj\/FLClipart\/Adjectives\/fever.gif\" width=400\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate being sick, but normally I can suffer through it. What I can&#8217;t stand on the other hand, is having a fever. I never really had fevers when I lived in Tennessee, but for some reason, ever since I moved to California, every time I come down with even the slightest cold, I manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halcyonrepose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}