{"id":48723,"date":"2022-04-18T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48723"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:19:48","slug":"dad-brog-084-my-health-isnt-just-my-health-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48723","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#084): My health isn\u2019t just my health anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the last two weeks, I\u2019ve had a dreadful cough. It started with sneezing, and then my chest filled with gunk, and since then it\u2019s been a tremendous amount of coughing, scratchy throat, and then more coughing.\u00a0 At certain times and conditions worse than others, but a noticeable amount of coughing going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

I chalked it up to a seasonal allergy, since I am susceptible to pollen, and this year\u2019s jizzing by Mother Nature has been particularly bad.\u00a0 Mythical wife has been tired of hearing me coughing, and suggested I go to a doctor, just to get an antibiotic or something to help rush this shit along.\u00a0 But being of the typical male who generally avoids going to see doctors, I didn\u2019t, chalking it up to being on the mend and that the phlegm just needs to work itself through my system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, #2 was diagnosed with strep throat.\u00a0 She hasn\u2019t shown any coughing, sneezing or any of the other typical strep symptoms, but she\u2019s been incredibly fussy and was already headed to the doc for her 9-month checkup.\u00a0 There, it was noticed her throat was a little red and after a quick test, yep it\u2019s strep.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the obvious culprit is that her lousy dad might have had strep and didn\u2019t know it was strep because he didn\u2019t have anything other than a nagging cough, and I still don\u2019t know if it\u2019s strep or not.\u00a0 But the point remains that the very likely source of my daughter\u2019s sickness is the person I see in the mirror and having a coming to Jesus moment that I really should be taking care of myself better if not just for myself, but for the sake of others, namely my own family and kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019d think after two-plus years of being in a pandemic I would have figured that out already, but 40 years of life haven\u2019t really made it sink in until I really jeopardized the wellbeing of one of the most important lives in my world.\u00a0 Regardless of if I am the reason is irrelevant, just the possibility that it could\u2019ve been me is enough of a wake up call to where I need to get my head out of my ass and just fucking do better.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s things like these that are the most obvious but most invaluable lessons to be learned about parenting, as well as life in general if you have other people in your life. It\u2019s just a shame that I have to feel like a fucking failure in order for it to sink in, but I guess in a Fight Club<\/em> fashion, it isn\u2019t until you hit bottom that you\u2019re free to do anything, like learn something important.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last two weeks, I\u2019ve had a dreadful cough. It started with sneezing, and then my chest filled with gunk, and since then it\u2019s been a tremendous amount of coughing, scratchy throat, and then more coughing.\u00a0 At certain times and conditions worse than others, but a noticeable amount of coughing going on. I chalked … Continue reading Dad Brog (#084): My health isn\u2019t just my health anymore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,193,45,71,192],"class_list":["post-48723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-dad","tag-fail","tag-famiry","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48725,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48723\/revisions\/48725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}