{"id":297,"date":"2002-08-27T20:38:48","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/297"},"modified":"2002-08-27T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2002-08-27T15:38:48","slug":"i-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/297","title":{"rendered":"I did it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made the appointment.  I&#8217;m having surgery on September 10 to take out the calcification or whatever it is.  Technically it&#8217;s called an excision biopsy, which means that the surgeon is going to remove the whole thing and a little bit of surrounding tissue in an outpatient procedure (although I will be in an operating room in the hospital).  They&#8217;re going to knock me mostly out with what he called a souped up twilight sleep, meaning that I might be a little responsive but I won&#8217;t remember anything.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a little gruesome, isn&#8217;t it?  I might be awake while they slice into my body.  Even if I won&#8217;t remember it, I have to wonder if it will affect me in some subconscious way.  I&#8217;ve read horror stories about people who wake up in the middle of surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Biopsy is a very scary word.  I&#8217;m pretty terrified, but it will be nice once it&#8217;s over with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the appointment. I&#8217;m having surgery on September 10 to take out the calcification or whatever it is. Technically it&#8217;s called an excision biopsy, which means that the surgeon is going to remove the whole thing and a little bit of surrounding tissue in an outpatient procedure (although I will be in an operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}