{"id":108,"date":"2008-02-07T23:28:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T07:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/ct-scan\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T22:33:22","slug":"ct-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/ct-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I lived.  They had to poke me twice in my left ankle and then finally in my right before they could find a vein that would take their blasted 20-gauge IV catheter.  It was not remotely comfortable.  Also, I understand wiggly children in church better after today:  It is <em>so<\/em> much harder to hold still as soon as someone tells you that you&#8217;re not allowed to move!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the good news is that the Cardiothoracic Radiologist did an initial sweep of the scan and didn&#8217;t see any major clots.  Now he has to thoroughly examine the over 2000 images of my &#8220;plumbing&#8221; (as he called it) to make sure nothing questionable has been missed.\u00a0  He told me all this and more right after the CT was through, but I was pretty out of it and didn&#8217;t retain much.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll see Dr. Murphy again in a couple of months and we&#8217;ll find out whether I&#8217;m safe to stay off coumadin for a while longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I lived. They had to poke me twice in my left ankle and then finally in my right before they could find a vein that would take their blasted 20-gauge IV catheter. It was not remotely comfortable. Also, I understand wiggly children in church better after today: It is so much harder to hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[36,37,65],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}