{"id":36,"date":"2006-03-08T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knownforms.com\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-03-08T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T23:08:29","slug":"this-is-your-brain-on-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"This is your brain on flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started to write another blog entry Sunday about the fact that the OM had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/keyfacts.htm\">flu <\/a>and so do I, but I was managing about 1 word\/minute and usually spelled wrong. My fever is finally down below 100 today (w00t!). Both of us were fluctuating around 102\/103 for the first 3 days. I lucked out and got the vomiting part too (yay!!!).<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend putting together a <a href=\"http:\/\/misia.livejournal.com\/932116.html\">flu kit<\/a>. I don &#8216;t know what we would have done if my Mom hadn&#8217;t been around to cook soup for us and go for extra meds and juice. Seriously folks, by day 2 you&#8217;re convinced you&#8217;re dying. I was sure the body aches were actually, physically breaking my bones. You don&#8217;t need everything on the list, but meds (pain reliever, fever reducer, and cough suppressant), soup, and tons of tissues and\/or toilet paper are absolute necessities. You really don&#8217;t want to run out of toilet paper with a 102 degree fever and a nose that won&#8217;t stop running.<\/p>\n<p>The OM had the best luck with Advil Cold &#038; Sinus. It kept her fever and cough manageable for 6 hours at a time so she could actually sleep. I can&#8217;t take that so I relied on Tylenol which is great, but only gives me a couple of hours before the fever bounces right back up to brain-frying levels. Whatever you get, get enough to last for at least 4 days. That will get you through the worst of it so you can drag yourself to the store  to buy more. Now I&#8217;m going back to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to write another blog entry Sunday about the fact that the OM had the flu and so do I, but I was managing about 1 word\/minute and usually spelled wrong. My fever is finally down below 100 today (w00t!). Both of us were fluctuating around 102\/103 for the first 3 days. I lucked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}