{"id":74,"date":"2009-12-02T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-12-02T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:56:00","slug":"the-uncommon-common-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/the-uncommon-common-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uncommon Common Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_cold\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Common symptoms are cough, sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, and sneezing; sometimes accompanied by &#8216;pink eye&#8217;, muscle aches, fatigue, malaise, headaches, muscle weakness, uncontrollable shivering, loss of appetite, and rarely extreme exhaustion. Fever is more commonly a symptom of influenza &#8230; The symptoms of a cold usually resolve after about one week; however, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">it is not rare that symptoms last up to three weeks<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aw, $@%#!!!, I&#8217;m in the &#8220;not rare&#8221; it-sucks-for-a-long-time category.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mayo Clinic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/flu-symptoms\/FU00013\">Flu Diagnoser<\/a> (I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/common-cold\/AN01229\">cold<\/a>, not the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Influenza-like_illness\">flu<\/a>) <\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s Hospital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechildrenshospital.org\/wellness\/topics\/index.aspx\">Flu vs Cold Chart<\/a> (Again, looks like I have a cold)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/common-patient-ailments.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/cold_vs_flu\">H1N1 vs Cold vs Flu<\/a> (Again, looks like a cold).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, probably time to see a doctor at T+3 weeks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Common symptoms are cough, sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, and sneezing; sometimes accompanied by &#8216;pink eye&#8217;, muscle aches, fatigue, malaise, headaches, muscle weakness, uncontrollable shivering, loss of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}