{"id":1037,"date":"2006-07-01T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1037"},"modified":"2006-07-01T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T00:18:10","slug":"yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1037","title":{"rendered":"Yay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Update!**  Wanna <a href=\"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/images\/OrgComm_grade.gif\">see my grades<\/a>?  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s official: I have 219 points out of a possible 220 for my A-COMM 3301 course, Foundations of Organizational Communication.  That&#8217;s a good, solid A, eh?<\/p>\n<p>I went to see a very nice urologist on Friday (Dr. Jeffrey Kocurek, for those searching for a urologist in Austin; I do not recommend Dr. Elizabeth Houser for reasons listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1036\">a previous post<\/a>) and I have a tentative appointment on Thursday for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/hw\/kidney_failure\/hw204755.asp\">ureteroscopy<\/a>, assuming I&#8217;m still uncomfortable and haven&#8217;t passed the stone on my own by then.  Apparently it&#8217;s still right above the bladder.  The lithotripsy that the other doctor scheduled me for only has a 65% success rate for stones in this area.<\/p>\n<p>The ureteroscopy is similar to the horrible procedure the other doctor did on Monday, but I&#8217;ll be unconscious for it.  Big difference.  I&#8217;m still in pain from the first one.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he gave me some Flomax, which is apparently a drug given to men with prostrate problems(!), and I took one yesterday and passed right out for about 5 hours.  I think I&#8217;ll wait until bedtime tonight to take it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I&#8217;ve also got another stone in my right kidney which is poised to cause serious problems as well, so I might end up doing the lithotripsy for that one.  I&#8217;ve been reading some disturbing stuff about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&#038;db=pubmed&#038;dopt=Abstract&#038;list_uids=16600747\">long-term consequences<\/a> though, so I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m comfortable with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Update!** Wanna see my grades? \ud83d\ude00 It&#8217;s official: I have 219 points out of a possible 220 for my A-COMM 3301 course, Foundations of Organizational Communication. That&#8217;s a good, solid A, eh? I went to see a very nice urologist on Friday (Dr. Jeffrey Kocurek, for those searching for a urologist in Austin; I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}