{"id":50989,"date":"2026-05-03T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=50989"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:14:02","slug":"the-germ-got-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/the-germ-got-me\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GERM GOT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nancy-Whitaker-1.jpeg?resize=318%2C364&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48900\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nancy-Whitaker-1.jpeg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nancy-Whitaker-1.jpeg?resize=260%2C298&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nancy-Whitaker-1.jpeg?resize=160%2C183&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This week has been a toughie with a big sinus infection that moved down into my chest. It was so weird that when I went to bed I sounded like me, but when I&nbsp;woke up, my voice sounded like a man\u2019s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I know there is a lot of bacteria and&nbsp;bugs going around so I just continued to cough and feel rotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I literally&nbsp;coughed &nbsp;all the time and my head felt like it was gonna fall off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I had a music gig on Thursday and after getting all polished up, I decided go. &nbsp;It went good, but following that&nbsp;then I headed over to Ohio Health\u2019s North clinic. Once they took my vitals, and yes I had a fever, they proceeded to tell me to sit still and relax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The nurse came back in and they had prescribed me antibiotics and hopefully I will be up and at \u2018em in no time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My gramma probably&nbsp; would not get antibiotics for our illnesses, but she would have been busy warming up milk and making toast for hot milk toast, and&nbsp;have this stuff called musterole which was a tube of the awfullest smelly and hottest thing on earth! In fact, if you see any anywhere, get me a tube \u2018cause I think they quit making it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Then&nbsp;me some of your old tried and true cold remedies and I will give&nbsp;you A Penny For Your Thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker This week has been a toughie with a big sinus infection that moved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12771],"tags":[12838,12839,28855],"class_list":["post-50989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-pennies-for-your-thoughts","tag-nancy-whitaker","tag-penny-for-your-thoughts","tag-the-germ-got-me"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nancy-Whitaker-1.jpeg?fit=318%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-dgp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 22:17:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50990,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions\/50990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}