{"id":126,"date":"2008-11-11T01:40:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethbrenneke.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-11-11T01:40:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T01:40:55","slug":"the-girls-in-teh-house-are-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"The girls in teh house are sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt&#8217;s had to deal with two cranky and sick ladies in the house, and deserves a present for putting up with us.<\/p>\n<p>Me:&nbsp; 3 weeks ago, I got a cold.&nbsp; It was annoying, and my cough was horrible.&nbsp; I was drained and just wanted to sleep.&nbsp; OTC meds did jack squat.&nbsp; Fast forward to Wednesday- I had a little annoying dry cough left over from the cold, but it was quickly dwindling down into nothing.&nbsp; I am in the mood for beef (I haven&#8217;t really had that much since starting back on meat), so I head over the Lion&#8217;s Choice- yum!&nbsp; 6 hours later, I suddenly feel like I had been hit by a truck.&nbsp; But my stomach was killing me too, so that&#8217;s what led me to believe it was some mild food poisoning.&nbsp; The next day, I wake up to all of the classic flu symptoms- stiff, achy, body; headache; mild fever; dry, hacking, cough- you name it.&nbsp; Most of the symptoms have gone away, except for I&#8217;m still really tired, I get a headache once a day, and the cough.&nbsp; All in all, I&#8217;m going on a whole month of being sick.&nbsp; I have never been this sick for so long.&nbsp; Thankfully I am getting better every day, and the not wanting to eat made me lose 4 pounds!<\/p>\n<p>Molly: Classic UTI symptoms- peeing outside her box, cleaning the little box almost knocks me out with the ammonia smell, not drinking.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve dealt with this before.&nbsp; She&#8217;s also been itching her ears, which would require the vet to do a LOT of testing (it could be anything from allergies to fluid in the ears to ear mites).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>They gave us different antibiotics than the last time she had an UTI, and a couple days of liquid pain meds.&nbsp; I have tried, and simply cannot, give Molly liquid meds.&nbsp; That&#8217;s officially Matt&#8217;s job.&nbsp; These new antibiotics, however, are light sensitive, so they can&#8217;t just go in her food like the other ones did.&nbsp; Oh no, I have to pill her ever 12 hours.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Not a big deal, right?<\/p>\n<p>The first two times, she was great, and we had no issues.&nbsp; I was surprised she wasn&#8217;t going to be a bigger pain in the ass.&nbsp; She saved it all for today.&nbsp; I did nothing different in my technique, and she went nuts.&nbsp; She actually swiped and hissed at me!&nbsp; I have never been so pissed off at her in my life, and this is the cat who destroyed my leather couch.<\/p>\n<p>Her next pill is going to be in 2 hours, and I think I need a stiff drink.&nbsp; DayQuil and rum is ok together, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt&#8217;s had to deal with two cranky and sick ladies in the house, and deserves a present for putting up with us. Me:&nbsp; 3 weeks ago, I got a cold.&nbsp; It was annoying, and my cough was horrible.&nbsp; I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/?p=126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}