{"id":46,"date":"2008-10-02T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-10-07T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T04:29:54","slug":"me-my-throat-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Me, my throat and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to be sick.\u00c2\u00a0 Friday will be 3 weeks now.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been to the doctor; at this point its just a matter of waiting out this bout.\u00c2\u00a0 But it sure feels like it will never end.\u00c2\u00a0 Afterwards, I have to see an ear nose and throat guy.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now been advised by multiple physicians that my tonsils need to come out.\u00c2\u00a0 They apparently have &#8220;pockets&#8221; on them which are hanging onto germs and whatnot, which is probably why I&#8217;ve had 8893849242 bouts of sore throat, strep, tonsilitis ad nauseum this past year+.<\/p>\n<p>Getting tonsils out at my ripe old age of 38 is not the walk in the park that it would be for a six year old apparently.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact while a child bounces back in a few days, for an adult it can take several weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m unthrilled at the prospect.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to go at least a\u00c2\u00a0few weeks at a time without throat pain, which right now seems impossible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 9.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #215868; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;\">&#8220;In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.&#8221; <em>~Albert Camus<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to be sick.\u00c2\u00a0 Friday will be 3 weeks now.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been to the doctor; at this point its just a matter of waiting out this bout.\u00c2\u00a0 But it sure feels like it will never end.\u00c2\u00a0 Afterwards, I have to see an ear nose and throat guy.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve now been advised by multiple physicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}