{"id":3721,"date":"2011-05-13T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2011-05-13T16:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:46:51","slug":"walking-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/walking-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Walking Pneumonia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my doctor just called, and he told me that the blood draw, my symptoms (illness not confined to the chest, but also in the head), and the bug&#8217;s apparent apathy towards penicillin indicated that I did indeed have the &#8216;other&#8217; kind of pneumonia, the so called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/000082.htm\">mycoplasma pneumonia<\/a>&#8216;, sometimes called &#8216;walking pneumonia&#8217; because &#8216;patients can sometimes continue to walk about whilst suffering from its symptoms&#8217;. \u00a0This is apparently one of the\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atypical_pneumonia\">atypical pneumonias<\/a>&#8216;. \u00a0This finding was supposedly in direct contrast to my x-ray, so minus one point to the x-ray interpreter. \u00a0Boo!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am indeed capable of walking (slowly), so I drove myself to the nearest pharmacy, walked slowly in the door, and paid a whopping isk 3523\/$30 for three whole pills of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugs.com\/zithromax.html\">zithromax<\/a>. \u00a0That&#8217;s twice the price I paid for 30 pills of penicillin! \u00a0Anyway, if I happen to be well next time I have to pick up a prescription, maybe I&#8217;ll call around and get the best price quote, but no, this is not the &#8216;get quotes on phone&#8217;-pneumonia so that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m going to keep lying here in bed (this laptop is really living up to its name&#8230;) and wait for modern medicine to kick some evil bug-behinds. \u00a0Crossing my fingers that this is the one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my doctor just called, and he told me that the blood draw, my symptoms (illness not confined to the chest, but also in the head), and the bug&#8217;s apparent apathy towards penicillin indicated that I did indeed have the &#8216;other&#8217; kind of pneumonia, the so called &#8216;mycoplasma pneumonia&#8216;, sometimes called &#8216;walking pneumonia&#8217; because &#8216;patients<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/walking-pneumonia\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}