{"id":8030,"date":"2015-02-15T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2015-03-04T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:10:47","slug":"it-just-keeps-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8030","title":{"rendered":"It just keeps getting better."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who was in the ER again today? I know you\u2019re not supposed to go to the ER if you have hives, but I felt like I was having a little trouble breathing. I\u2019m guessing I wasn\u2019t supposed to try to wait for it to go away then walk across the street to Safeway to buy generic Benadryl to dry swallow. But I did, and then drove home and walked to the hospital, hoping things would get better. I still felt a little wheezy when I got then and the Benadryl kicked in while I was sitting in the lobby for an hour. And the doc looked at me and said, \u201cYou\u2019ve really got hives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I got an EpiPen prescription for my trouble but all the pharmacies were closed at 6:30PM and so I just have to hope whatever it was isn\u2019t in my regular diet, just something special in Peet\u2019s Coffee\u2019s Soy Lattes. I sure hope it\u2019s not soy in general. What kind of Asian would I be if I had to avoid soy?<\/p>\n<p>So here we go, another sign I\u2019m getting old: weird allergies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who was in the ER again today? I know you\u2019re not supposed to go to the ER if you have hives, but I felt like I was having a little trouble breathing. I\u2019m guessing I wasn\u2019t supposed to try to wait for it to go away then walk across the street to Safeway to buy generic Benadryl to dry swallow. But I did, and then drove home and walked to the hospital, hoping things would get better. I still felt a little wheezy when I got then and the Benadryl kicked in while I was sitting in the lobby for an hour. And the doc looked at me and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=8030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It just keeps getting better.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/8034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}