{"id":889,"date":"2008-06-28T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T23:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2008-06-28T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T23:09:27","slug":"i-went-to-the-doctor-and-the-doctor-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"i went to the doctor and the doctor said&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8221;it looks like you have throat ulcers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>not the most exciting think you can hear from the doctor. let me fill you in on the back story. a few days ago i came down with a fever of about 103 which persisted for a couple of days. then that broke, and my throat started to feel sore (that was last night). well, all night i slept like crap because every time i would swallow, it woke me up. so, at around noon today i decided to go to the doctor and that&#8217;s when he told me i have throat ulcers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;what causes that?&#8221;, i inquired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it&#8217;s either viral, or it&#8217;s an infection,&#8221; he told me.<\/p>\n<p>i love when they give you options. i wasn&#8217;t sure if he was wanting me to guess, like some sort of game, or if it was like a <em>choose your own adventure<\/em> book where i got to pick what caused it. as it turns out, it was neither of those things, he just didn&#8217;t know. so he gave me some antibiotics in case it&#8217;s an infection, and if it&#8217;s viral it just has to run it&#8217;s course. they took a throat culture (there&#8217;s nothing cultured about a stranger shoving a 6&#8243; long q-tip down your throat) and i should know &#8220;in a while&#8221; whether or not it&#8217;s an infection. he also gave me some hydrocodone for the pain. i just dropped a couple of those and i have to tell you that i&#8217;m living pretty large at the moment. i can&#8217;t even believe that i&#8217;m able to type coherently right now. maybe i should go driving to really test my limits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8221;it looks like you have throat ulcers.&#8221; not the most exciting think you can hear from the doctor. let me fill you in on the back story. a few days ago i came down with a fever of about 103 which persisted for a couple of days. then that broke, and my throat started to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}