{"id":215,"date":"2004-05-21T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:18:21","slug":"am-i-supposed-to-be-getting-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Am I supposed to be getting healthier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So another doctor&#8217;s appointment today. It&#8217;s a bit weird to me, I had a bone marrow biopsy before treatment started, at 3 months after treatment started, and I&#8217;m supposed to have one at 6 months. In between 0 months and 3 months I had a doctor&#8217;s appointment almost every other week. Between 3 months and 6 months I have one appointment. So it feels to me like I&#8217;m getting the next biopsy, the one at 6 months, right after the one at 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the doctor says I&#8217;m doing well and the molecular and FISH studies looked good. Good thing I&#8217;ve forgotten all my molecular biology.<\/p>\n<p>But the worst part is that every one of my many previous appointments I only weighed 169 pounds. Always. 169 pounds. This time I&#8217;m up to 174 pounds. Isn&#8217;t this going to the sports club thing supposed to be making me feel better (I feel like someone beat the hell out of me) and make me lighter (not 5 pounds heavier)? And for those who don&#8217;t recognize my attempt at humor: I know things don&#8217;t happen overnight &mdash; except for feeling like someone beat the hell out of me.<\/p>\n<p>A late Friday night workout was nice and quiet, and there were still a couple of attractive women to look at. The tough looking guys who were there didn&#8217;t sound so tough when I heard them speak. In fact, they sounded more girly than the women there.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I finally saw <b>Blade 2<\/b> today and I must say that I&#8217;m <b>not<\/b> disappointed. But I am disappointed in my picks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencine.com\/main\">GreenCine<\/a>. I keep putting &#8220;good&#8221; movies on my list &mdash; in this case <b>Tokyo Story<\/b> &mdash; and then only watching the fluff. Oh, well, I guess this tells me a little more about my own likes and dislikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So another doctor&#8217;s appointment today. It&#8217;s a bit weird to me, I had a bone marrow biopsy before treatment started, at 3 months after treatment started, and I&#8217;m supposed to have one at 6 months. In between 0 months and 3 months I had a doctor&#8217;s appointment almost every other week. Between 3 months and 6 months I have one appointment. So it feels to me like I&#8217;m getting the next biopsy, the one at 6 months, right after the one at 3 months. Anyway, the doctor says I&#8217;m doing well and the molecular and FISH studies looked good. Good thing I&#8217;ve forgotten all my molecular biology. But the worst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Am I supposed to be getting healthier?<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}