{"id":871,"date":"2008-02-28T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/sick-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:11:02","slug":"sick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/sick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick Note Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hot-headed in all the wrong ways. Feel riddled with a disorientating headache (making it hard to read from this screen), plus am additionally burdened with nausea, loss of appetite and a dizzy fever. The traffic was unusually deafening on my walk to Highgate Group Practice. Either everyone has turned up the volume on their cars, or I&#8217;m ill.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve just seen the GP. She suspects it&#8217;s an ear infection, and has put me on a course of antibiotics. I&#8217;ve no rash or neck stiffness, so she doesn&#8217;t think meningitis is the case, but the only true way to rule it out is for me to go to Whittington A&amp;E (a short bus ride or 15 min walk away) and get a lumbar puncture. This means spinal fluid extracted and tested. It does seem rather drastic. But sitting here worried out of my mind &#8211; when I can think straight at all &#8211; I&#8217;m considering going along and asking for it, if only to put my mind at rest. In every sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hot-headed in all the wrong ways. Feel riddled with a disorientating headache (making it hard to read from this screen), plus am additionally burdened with nausea, loss of appetite and a dizzy fever. The traffic was unusually deafening on my walk to Highgate Group Practice. Either everyone has turned up the volume on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}