{"id":1289,"date":"2008-06-12T05:57:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T10:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2008-06-12T05:57:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T10:57:14","slug":"the-next-plague-mastitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/the-next-plague-mastitis\/","title":{"rendered":"The next plague:  mastitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My vexatious breasts are at it again, finding new and horrific ways to cause me grief.  I suppose I should know better than to tempt fate with a question like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/duck-and-cover\/\">what&#8217;s next<\/a>.&#8221;  The answer is a rocking case of mastitis.  Fever, chills, wretched body aches, and it feels like I have a ball of hot lead tucked into my right breast.  Good times.<\/p>\n<p>What really surprised me was how fast it came on.  I had a bit of tenderness Tuesday night, and Lucas was being fussy feeding on that side.  I figured I would have another blocked duct by morning, but had no idea how quickly it would become an infection.  By midmorning yesterday I knew I was in trouble.  Luckily, my GP saw me last night and I&#8217;m already on antibiotics.  Yeah, lucky me.  <\/p>\n<p>Mastitis has always been my personal boogeyman, something I&#8217;ve been terrified of throughout my breastfeeding years.  And as Stephen King observed, while the monster exposed can never be as frightening as the monster in the closet, it&#8217;s still pretty darn sucky.  One more experience to add to my mothering portfolio.  Pass the Advil, willya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My vexatious breasts are at it again, finding new and horrific ways to cause me grief. I suppose I should know better than to tempt fate with a question like &#8220;what&#8217;s next.&#8221; The answer is a rocking case of mastitis. Fever, chills, wretched body aches, and it feels like I have a ball of hot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/06\/12\/the-next-plague-mastitis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The next plague:  mastitis&#8221;<\/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":[67,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-days","category-it-is-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}