{"id":86,"date":"2003-12-11T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-12-11T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T02:55:00","slug":"i-wonder-how-much-a-bone-marrow-biopsy-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"I wonder how much a bone marrow biopsy hurts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After calling four times and waiting two days, I finally got a call back from my doctor. I guess he wasn&#8217;t working today, and called me from home. It&#8217;s a good thing he called, too, since I got a bunch of forms from Northwest Cancer Specialists. Kind of a surprise. A couple of forms, a bunch of pamphlets, and a card with an appointment scheduled. I guess he scheduled an appointment for me with the hematologist once the results from the second blood test came back looking odder than the first. And I thought the laser level was a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>The good news: it&#8217;s probably not leukemia. The test didn&#8217;t indicate that.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: I may get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/003934.htm\">bone marrow biopsy<\/a>. From what I hear, that could really hurt, and I can&#8217;t think how how it would help.<\/p>\n<p>People keep asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong?&#8221; How would I know? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\">They didn&#8217;t let me into medical school<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After calling four times and waiting two days, I finally got a call back from my doctor. I guess he wasn&#8217;t working today, and called me from home. It&#8217;s a good thing he called, too, since I got a bunch of forms from Northwest Cancer Specialists. Kind of a surprise. A couple of forms, a bunch of pamphlets, and a card with an appointment scheduled. I guess he scheduled an appointment for me with the hematologist once the results from the second blood test came back looking odder than the first. And I thought the laser level was a disappointment. The good news: it&#8217;s probably not leukemia. The test didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=86\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I wonder how much a bone marrow biopsy hurts.<\/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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}