{"id":1158,"date":"2004-06-01T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/01\/ignoble_infirmi\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:19:04","slug":"ignoble_infirmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/01\/ignoble_infirmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoble Infirmity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been mostly bed-ridden for the last couple of days,<\/strong> wheezing my way through a nasty chest cold that\u2019s thrown me for a loop. Miraculously, though, my giant-sized tonsils haven\u2019t gotten in on the act they\u2019re usually the first line of defense to crumble in the face of random germs. As a matter of fact, my tonsils enormous, oversensitive, and a lifelong problem aren\u2019t the only part of my immune system that have been reinforced by modern<\/a> medicine<\/a> during the last few years.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the last few years of having an incurable disease have been the healthiest of my life. I\u2019ve always been on the sickly side, plagued by minor ailments and inconveniences as long as I can remember. The frequency and severity of those various bugs really skyrocketed during the years between my infection and my diagnosis. A few years of treatment, though, and I seem to be as hardy as anyone else. (Furiously knocking wood as I type that.) I\u2019m also much less stoic about getting sick.<\/p>\n

When you sniffle and shrug off sore throats and stuffy sinuses all the time, you get in the habit of ignoring it all. No big deal, just more of the same ol\u2019-same ol\u2019. When you feel alright most of the time, though, even a little wheezing and wooziness seem like a huge deal. I just hope that if the situation ever demands that old habit of stoicism that I still have it in me. There doesn\u2019t seem to be any reason for me to worry about taking a turn for the worse, but who knows? (The not knowing is the best part, after all.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll just keep counting my blessings, and maybe I\u2019ll lie down for a nap. I\u2019m feeling a bit dizzy, I\u2019m afraid. But that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been mostly bed-ridden for the last couple of days, wheezing my way through a nasty chest cold that\u2019s thrown me for a loop. Miraculously, though, my giant-sized tonsils haven\u2019t gotten in on the act they\u2019re usually the first line of defense to crumble in the face of random germs. As a matter of fact, … Continue reading “Ignoble Infirmity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapositive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77250,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/77250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}