{"id":4465,"date":"2013-04-04T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:38:55","slug":"dont-wait-4-months-to-go-to-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/dont-wait-4-months-to-go-to-the-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Wait 4 Months to go to The Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t written on my Blog for 4 months because (although I didn&#8217;t know it at the time) I have been battling bronchitis. I thought I just had a cold that came and went. I chalked up being tired all the time, being in a daze and having the overall run-down feeling to working too much and sleeping too little (I don&#8217;t deny I work too much).<\/p>\n<p>After 4 months of getting better and worse I decided to go to the doctor. She said I should have come in 3 &#8211; 1\/2 months earlier! It turned out I had bronchitis with a severe bacterial infection in my lungs. I ended up with a few rounds of antibiotics: first Amoxicillin and then Levofloxacin. The Levofloxacin packs quite a punch. Plus, I have a steroid inhaler I am still using. Mucinex helps a lot, too.<\/p>\n<p>That was really stupid to ignore it. Especially because I have since found out that there are a lot of infections that are not curable.<\/p>\n<p>About the only good thing that came from being so sick for so long is that I got a chance to do some soul-searching. I have made and stuck with a few major personal changes. <a title=\"TripInsuranceStore.com\" href=\"https:\/\/TripInsuranceStore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TripInsuranceStore.com<\/a> is also getting some improvements to even be more useful to our wonderful clients. I&#8217;ll be announcing those over the next six months as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you can look forward to more detailed blog posts to help you navigate through the complicated trip cancellation travel insurance plan world.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Steve Dasseos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe I haven&#8217;t written on my Blog for 4 months because (although I didn&#8217;t know it at the time) I have been battling bronchitis. I thought I just had a cold that came and went. I chalked up being tired all the time, being in a daze and having the overall run-down feeling to working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[25,38,50,171,190],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-travel-insurance-advice","tag-amoxicillin","tag-bacterial","tag-bronchitis","tag-infection","tag-levofloxacin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}