{"id":135,"date":"2002-09-22T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-22T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=135"},"modified":"2002-09-22T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-22T22:05:00","slug":"another-crappy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/135-another-crappy-day","title":{"rendered":"Another crappy day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a <b>lovely day<\/b> today, with the afternoon spent lying on my back in a chilly <b>Urgent Care Ward<\/b> (what we here in Ontario <i>used<\/i> to call &#8220;Emergency&#8221; before Frickin&#8217; Mike Harris decided it would be in the Public Good to systematically dismantel the Public Health System!) in nothing but my undies and a hospital gown.<\/p>\n<p>This morning around 10am, I suffered a terrible dizzy spell. I had another one even worse around 2pm, and then a third when my brother took me to the UCW, and a fourth actually at the UCW while I was processing the paperwork. I&#8217;m feeling better now; just a little light-headed and worn out.<\/p>\n<p>My latest ailment has been &#8220;diagnosed&#8221; as <a HREF=\"http:\/\/icarus.med.utoronto.ca\/carr\/manual\/vertigo.html\">Vertigo<\/a>. Aside from the dizziness and spewing my guts once as we got to the doors of the UCW, there is nothing wrong with me&#8230; my blood pressure&#151; even under stress of the UCW&#151; is down to a mere 127\/70&#8230; my heart rate was a calm flutter at 71 BPM! That&#8217;s the lowest those numbers have been in YEARS!<\/p>\n<p>They gave me a prescription for SERC (Betahistine Hydrochloride) [read the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.menieres.org\/martin.htm#package\">Package Insert<\/a> here] to take if I feel like I need it. I&#8217;ll take one before I go to bed tonight&#8230; very soon actually&#8230; and see how I&#8217;m feeling in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a lovely day today, with the afternoon spent lying on my back in a chilly Urgent Care Ward (what we here in Ontario used to call &#8220;Emergency&#8221; before Frickin&#8217; Mike Harris decided it would be in the Public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/135-another-crappy-day\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}