{"id":14541,"date":"2019-01-15T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14541"},"modified":"2019-01-15T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:00:43","slug":"his-tender-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14541","title":{"rendered":"His Tender Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been feeling crappy since late December.  Symptoms brought on by stress over the lying, baby-caging idiot-in-chief&#8217;s temper tantrum and failure to do his job are taking their toll.  I am fatigued, yet I can&#8217;t sleep; I have other symptoms that I will not describe, but make it difficult for me to eat anything.  Anything.<\/p>\n<p>I finally gave in to my usual male resistance to seeing&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;a doctor. Went to him yesterday.  Generally, my biostats are okay, but not sure precisely why these symptoms are getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the stress,&#8221; says the doc.  While I will not allow a blood draw (talk about stress &#8212; even the thought of a needle stresses me out), I agree, I am not handling this situation well.  I fear nothing will improve until we send that idiot packing to Florida or make him the first idiot-o-naut on his silly Space Force and send him beyond Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>The doc gave me a prescription, which I will try to take. I have had it before, and it causes side effects that sometimes are worse than not using it at all.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home from this doctor&#8217;s visit, knowing how I feel about seeing a doctor, The Spouse had caring comfort all lined up.<\/p>\n<p>He laid out my comfy sweats and fuzzy socks to change into.  <\/p>\n<p>While I was changing clothes, he heated a bowl of my uncle&#8217;s famous cure-all chicken soup, complete with orzo, my favorite pasta for soup.<\/p>\n<p>After I ate, he then gave me a massage and back rub.  Ahhhh&#8230; I really do feel less stressed already.<\/p>\n<p>All the while &#8212; I am in a complete news blackout.  No TV, no internet media, and especially no social media.  All tuned out to reduce my anxiety and stress level.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I am still working, but at home and when I feel clear-headed enough to think.  (I have to think in another language for what I am working on, but that is another story for another time.)<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  it is less stressful when The Spouse shows how he cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been feeling crappy since late December. Symptoms brought on by stress over the lying, baby-caging idiot-in-chief&#8217;s temper tantrum and failure to do his job are taking their toll. I am fatigued, yet I can&#8217;t sleep; I have other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14541\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}