\n\nI don't know whether it was flu or a common<\/span> cold or SARS or what<\/i>,\nbut whatever it was lay waste<\/b> to me and my family this week. In my case<\/span>, Thursday was the first day since Sunday that my temperature didn't\nrise above 40C (104F), and today (Saturday) is the first day that I have<\/span> no\nfever at all (well, so far).\n\n<\/p> \n\nIt started a week ago (Saturday) with Anthony having a mild<\/span> cough. On Sunday<\/span> he had a temperature<\/span> up to 40C, and Fumie was feeling bad too. It hit me<\/span> on Monday with a force<\/span> I've never been hit before. It's been the<\/span>\nworst cold I can<\/span> ever remember (and I can<\/span> remember a lot,<\/span> considering that\nthis is my fourth cold<\/a>\nthis year).\n\n<\/p>\n\n \n\nWhatever bug is responsible is very persistent. With all of us, the cold\nseems to “break” (we wake up in a cold<\/span> sweat and soaked\nclothes) and we think we're over the worst of it, but it comes back with\ngusto the next day. For me that<\/span> was three days in a row,<\/span> with Thursday\nfinally having just a “normal” mild cold all day. Today\n(Saturday) is the first day for me without any fever, although I still<\/span> have\nvery little energy and am so tired my eyes feel like they're falling out\n(yet for some reason just can not sleep). Fumie had it bad even longer.\n\n<\/p> \n\nThank God for Fumie's mom, who lives next to us -- she was able to look\nafter Anthony much of the time Fumie and I were<\/span> incoherent. I'm also thankful<\/span> for “Dora the Explorer”, which we used to babysit\nAnthony during much of the rest of the time. He's seen more<\/span> video this week\nthan all the previous days of his life combined. And Anthony's cold was\nrelatively mild and short-lived, likely thanks to Fumie having gotten him a\nflu<\/span> shot a month<\/span> ago.\n\n<\/p> \n\nAt least it happened this week and not next; on Monday we're all heading to\nMalaysia for two weeks, to visit Fumie's dad, who's there on a long<\/span>-term\nwork assignment.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don't know whether it was flu or a common cold or SARS or what, but whatever it was lay waste<\/b> to me and my family this week. In my case, Thursday was the first day since Sunday that my temperature didn't rise above 40C (104F), and today (Saturday) is the first day that I have no fever at all (well, so far). <\/p> It started a week ago (Saturday) with Anthony having a mild cough. On Sunday he had a temperature up to 40C, and Fumie was feeling bad too. It hit me on Monday with a force [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}