{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"It's Going Around","description":"Nearly the whole house is suffering.  ------------- A slew of fall and winter maladies has infiltrated our home. \u2018Tis the season after all. I sat in the emergency room with my favorite oldest daughter early last Wednesday morning as she suffered with what we think were cluster headaches. Right now, my favorite youngest daughter is home from school, in bed with a stomach bug and my favorite oldest son just walked back inside after dropping his brother off at school. He felt bad when he woke up, but his head began pounding when he got active, he returned home, and he\u2019s now back in bed. Cold and flu season is here. And I mean right here. I, myself, was in the orthopedist\u2019s office yesterday. I had a meniscus repair a couple years ago and should have addressed it when I first felt the pain. Instead, like a testosterone poisoned male, I kept going and tried to push through, hoping that I\u2019d arrive at the other side of the pain and be pain free. Well, the surgical procedure lasted only a short time a few months after realizing there was no other side to push through to. A similar pain is now in the other 50% of my knees and I went to the doctor in short order after having learned my lesson. He took X-Rays, examined it thoroughly, and said \u201cI think you have a sore knee.\u201d I said, \u201cYep. That\u2019s why I\u2019m here.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d he said. \u201cI can find nothing wrong with it. When\u2019s the last time you stretched after your workout?\u201d \u201cOh,\u201d I said, \u201cMaybe last year or the year before that.\u201d \u201cGo home and stretch and let me know.\u201d So, I did. And, no knee pain today. \u201cDon\u2019t forget how old you and your knees are,\u201d he said as I stood to leave and then he said, \u201cHey, let me check your prostate.\u201d I\u2019m kidding. He didn\u2019t really say that. Last night at 2AM my wife sent me to the kitchen for Advil. A mysterious foot pain surfaced in the middle of the night and, as of this morning, is thankfully gone. And our dog, Lucy, started showing a limp after long walk over the weekend. At this moment there is only one of us living here not suffering some sort of ailment. But, it\u2019s just a matter of time. He\u2019ll catch the \u201csomething\u2019s wrong with me bug\u201d soon once he sees all the school his siblings are missing. Stands to reason, he\u2019ll want in on it, too. I\u2019m a pro-vaxer. Covid, Covid-boosters, flu shots every year for well over a decade. I\u2019ll schedule a shingles vaccine as soon as I can find time on my calendar. Vaccines won\u2019t help my knees or my wife\u2019s foot but if there were one, I\u2019d get it. I\u2019m all for science, it\u2019s good stuff. Until then, though, if you see me or any of my family, stay away. We\u2019re all in in pain, in bad moods, or contagious or all of the above. Avoid us. Just come close enough to drop off a casserole. We\u2019re plugging a refrigerator in on the front porch so you don\u2019t have to ring the doorbell. I\u2019m Cam Marston and I\u2019m just trying to Keep It Real. ","author_name":"Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston","author_url":"https:\/\/cammarston.com\/keepin-it-real-with-cam-marston\/","html":"