{"id":7340,"date":"2017-03-08T20:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T02:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T02:31:27","slug":"pins-and-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/why-am-i-telling-you-this\/pins-and-needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Pins and needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/33176216042\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"_MG_8827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3665\/33176216042_f8bb853720_b.jpg\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"_MG_8827\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sick for nine weeks. Upper respiratory infection-type stuff that runs its course and before leaving my body, regenerates like it&#8217;s stuck in a loop. <\/p>\n<p>Sore throat, sinus congestion, stuff issuing from my skull that runs the colors of the rainbow, crusty eyes (at one point double pink eye), a dry cough, then a wet cough, junk dripping down my throat from my skull, popping ears (at one point an ear infection), then a cough that keeps me up all night, then a sore throat and is begins again. It&#8217;s run three complete cycles since Dec. 29 including after a round of antibiotics and I feel like I am going to lose my mind if I don&#8217;t get totally over it soon. I&#8217;m hacking up a lung everywhere I go, I&#8217;m hoarse and tired all the time, there are gross tissues falling out of all my pockets and my purse, and I smell like cough drops because I CONSTANTLY have a cough drop in my mouth. I sleep with a cough drop in my mouth or else I don&#8217;t sleep at all so my teeth are probably going to rot out. (And I&#8217;ve had two nights where I woke myself up coughing around 1 a.m. and could not go back to sleep.)<\/p>\n<p>I thought maybe something in the new house had me on an allergic trip so I went for allergy testing today. After 45 minutes of being poked and injected with pins and needles dosed with pure allergens, I learned that I am only allergic to dust mites, mold and horses. Yes, horses. Because why not?<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not the dogs or the down comforter or even the trees, which have opened up unseasonably early thanks to the warm winter. No pollen allergies. Ain&#8217;t that some shit?<\/p>\n<p>The allergist referred me across the street to the radiology clinic so they could do a CT scan of my skull and see what&#8217;s going on in there. I learned that a CT scan is a relatively pleasant experience, compared to an MRI. So that&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>At this point if there was a small pony living inside my skull, it would be a relief because at least I&#8217;d know what was fucking me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sick for nine weeks. Upper respiratory infection-type stuff that runs its course and before leaving my body, regenerates like it&#8217;s stuck in a loop. Sore throat, sinus congestion, stuff issuing from my skull that runs the colors of the rainbow, crusty eyes (at one point double pink eye), a dry cough, then a wet cough, junk dripping down my throat from my skull, popping ears (at one point an ear infection), then a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[2317,579],"class_list":["post-7340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-why-am-i-telling-you-this","tag-allergies","tag-sickness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/MG_8827.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1Uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}