{"id":10855,"date":"2026-10-16T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=10855"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:29:16","slug":"sick-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2026\/10\/16\/sick-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest long stretch of no-people, one of the best things has been that getting sick is no longer routine. On average I think I&#8217;ve been clipped by a bug, once every two years maybe rather than once or twice every six months. <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve done these illnesses largely med-free, toughing them out and sleeping them off and not even bothering to eat, or shower, or write until healing took place on its own schedule.<\/p>\n<p>But this time the northern bug did hit hard, especially by making sleep very difficult, because of the compulsive coughing. I&#8217;ve been run down and exhausted. <\/p>\n<p>Currently my chosen quick fix prices out at ten bucks a bottle for the store brand version. What it does is suppress the cough, while supposedly thinning out the chest and face mucus behind the scenes. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stay up as long as I can and then dose on it hard, hoping for restorative long sleep at last in these lovely days of shifting weather. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest long stretch of no-people, one of the best things has been that getting sick is no longer routine. On average I think I&#8217;ve been clipped by a bug, once every two years maybe rather than once or twice every six months. And I&#8217;ve done these illnesses largely med-free, toughing them out and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10856,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10855\/revisions\/10856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}