{"id":111,"date":"2004-01-08T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-01-08T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T03:58:00","slug":"its-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s melting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s warming up and things are melting, but I remember how this usually works in these parts: the temperature will shoot up to about 50&deg;F and we&#8217;ll have a nice hard rain. That way things will melt too quickly and we&#8217;ll get proper flooding. Right now it&#8217;s about 38&deg;F and it&#8217;s melting slowly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/icydownspout.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I was supposed to have a doctor&#8217;s appointment today, and I couldn&#8217;t get through to cancel it. My doctor actually apologized about the broken phones. He called to tell me I didn&#8217;t need to see him until I was on the Gleevec for a week and he heard that I&#8217;d been having some delays. The paperwork was finally straightened out and the drugs are on order. It&#8217;s in Fred Meyer&#8217;s hands now. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>The only scary bit was when I first found out I&#8217;ll be taking Gleevec for the rest of my life, or until they stop working. I&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s warming up and things are melting, but I remember how this usually works in these parts: the temperature will shoot up to about 50&deg;F and we&#8217;ll have a nice hard rain. That way things will melt too quickly and we&#8217;ll get proper flooding. Right now it&#8217;s about 38&deg;F and it&#8217;s melting slowly. I was supposed to have a doctor&#8217;s appointment today, and I couldn&#8217;t get through to cancel it. My doctor actually apologized about the broken phones. He called to tell me I didn&#8217;t need to see him until I was on the Gleevec for a week and he heard that I&#8217;d been having some delays. The paperwork was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s melting.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}