{"id":4144,"date":"2012-10-01T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2012-10-01T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T21:09:41","slug":"we-brought-something-else-back-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/we-brought-something-else-back-from-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"We brought something else back from Texas&#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the infamous Convention Crud. I think the fires and the smoky drive set us up for it. It&#8217;s respiratory, and I&#8217;m chilled, dizzy and feel like heck, but improving. I laid out this morning and just rested. Now I&#8217;m feeling a little better&#8230;but Jane&#8217;s started coughing.<\/p>\n<p>We were worried when we read that our good friend Mike Moe, who was also at Fencon, had come down with something a few days ago. We had a longer incubation, but this is not (cough*cough) pleasant. Been a while since I&#8217;ve caught anything at a con. MAY-be we should&#8217;ve gotten our flu shots before we went. I think we will certainly get them after we get over this stuff, in the theory that we may not have met the real flu yet. This responds to Dayquil\/Nyquil and Mucinex&#8212;Theraflu, not so much: tried that first.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken soup helped: the quick way to semi-homemade: fill saucepan with Swanson&#8217;s No MSG Chicken Broth, add Foster Farms Honey-roasted Chicken Strips (frozen); two heaping tablespoons of cooked rice (I tend to cook up a lot at once, then re-heat servings over the next several days, with various toppings;) or bean-thread (Vietnamese); or raw spinach leaves; or pre-cooked pasta; or raw green peas; add black pepper, add celery salt (except with the Bean-thread, use the Vietnamese sweet chili sauce instead, when serving); bring to boil. Serve. It will save you from the plague.<\/p>\n<p>Jane did the chicken and rice number and I immediately felt better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the infamous Convention Crud. I think the fires and the smoky drive set us up for it. It&#8217;s respiratory, and I&#8217;m chilled, dizzy and feel like heck, but improving. I laid out this morning and just rested. Now I&#8217;m feeling a little better&#8230;but Jane&#8217;s started coughing. We were worried when we read that our good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}