{"id":24952,"date":"2026-11-08T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24952"},"modified":"2026-11-08T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T16:58:04","slug":"almost-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24952","title":{"rendered":"Almost Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s still a tiny bump where the tick bit me. Otherwise the bite has healed and all traces of the burgeoning bull&#8217;s-eye rash have disappeared. I have two more doses of Doxycyline left, and I will be so happy to be done with it, because it&#8217;s really hard to take. The instructions say to take it with a whole glass of water and that it <em>may<\/em> be taken with food, and what I&#8217;ve found is that I&#8217;d damned well better drink that water <em>and<\/em> eat something or I will want to die a short while later from the screaming headache and nausea. If I take it with food and drink, the ensuing nausea and headache are at least tolerable. It hasn&#8217;t been pleasant couple of weeks, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Just those last two doses, then (fingers crossed) this little nightmare will be over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s still a tiny bump where the tick bit me. Otherwise the bite has healed and all traces of the burgeoning bull&#8217;s-eye rash have disappeared. I have two more doses of Doxycyline left, and I will be so happy to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24952\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24955,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24952\/revisions\/24955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}