{"id":564,"date":"2014-07-14T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-07-15T05:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T09:34:03","slug":"tips-summer-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/tips-summer-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for a Summer Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-565 size-full\" title=\"Tips for a Summer Cold\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/summercold.jpg\" alt=\"Sick with a cold, Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, cuddles up with handknit afghan and dog.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/summercold.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/summercold-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/summercold-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/summercold-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/summercold-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/>How did I get a cold in July, I wonder? A full-blown sneeze-blasting, rainy-nosed, head-filled-with-concrete cold. On the most perfect day of the year, filled with invitations to barbeques and boat-rides, I was walloped.<br \/>\n\u201cDo you think you\u2019re contagious?\u201d friends asked. Sadly, I cancelled all my plans.<\/p>\n<p>When my daughter was sick, I loved taking care of her. I\u2019d bring her meals on trays, read to her, and fly down the hill to Wegmans to pick up whatever I could to coddle her.<br \/>\n\u201cPuffs tissues, mom,\u201d she\u2019d insist, \u201cpeach tea, and NyQuil gel-caps, not the yucky syrup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After my daughter died I had to transfer my caregiver skills to myself. It was not easy. \u201cTake care of yourself,\u201d I\u2019d always told someone else. But it was my turn to need care. Last week, \u201cbe kind to myself\u201d became my mantra as I settled in for a long overdue head cold.<\/p>\n<p>My three tips for pampering yourself through a cold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share. Tell your friends you\u2019re sick. Post it on Facebook. Call your mother. Sympathy feels great.<\/li>\n<li>Go outside. Walk the dog or get a weather report the old-fashioned way. Fresh air feels good.<\/li>\n<li>Allow yourself to be a slug. If it\u2019s too hard to hold a book or watch a DVD in midday then take a nap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first day of my summer cold, I used my last bit of energy to fetch Puffs, Nyquil, two DVDs, and the fixings for chicken soup from Wegmans. Wearing hand-knit socks given to me by a friend, I cuddled up with my dog in the afghan my mother knit for me. For two days I surrendered to being sick.<br \/>\nOn the third day a friend called. Then the friend, her daughter, my dog and I went hiking in the rain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I get a cold in July, I wonder? A full-blown sneeze-blasting, rainy-nosed, head-filled-with-concrete cold. On the most perfect day of the year, filled with invitations to barbeques and boat-rides, I was walloped. &ldquo;Do you think you&rsquo;re contagious?&rdquo; friends asked. Sadly, I cancelled all my plans. When my daughter was sick, I loved taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,64,189,187,186],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-caregiver","tag-healing-from-loss","tag-pampering-myself","tag-sympathy","tag-tips-for-a-summer-cold"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}