{"id":1263,"date":"2013-11-14T10:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:37:25","slug":"infusion-check-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/infusion-check-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Infusion &#038; Check Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-20131114_091242.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"20131114_091242.jpg\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-20131114_091242.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re here at Stanford for our weekly appointment and for an iron infusion.\u00a0 Dr. Romfh decided she wanted Angie to get an infusion of iron because she thinks Angie&#8217;s iron is low because she isn&#8217;t absorbing it.\u00a0 So, since we were coming out to Palo Alto anyway, we just came several hours earlier (and had to fight commuter traffic).\u00a0 A regular iron infusion lasts 4 hours, so we&#8217;ve got a long day ahead of us.\u00a0 Since Angie has had such bad luck with IVs over the last few weeks, we requested the crisis nurse right away.\u00a0 While we wait for the crisis nurse, they always put your arms on heat to open the veins.\u00a0 The crisis nurse arrived in a few minutes and got the IV in on the first try.\u00a0 Phew!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They have nice comfy reclining chairs here for the patients because they have to sit for so long.\u00a0 We brought a good book and plenty of things to keep her entertained, so hopefully it will be (somewhat) relaxing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This afternoon we&#8217;ve got an appointment with Angie&#8217;s cardiologist.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also got an X-ray and blood work scheduled.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll probably be done just in time for rush hour on our drive home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re here at Stanford for our weekly appointment and for an iron infusion.\u00a0 Dr. Romfh decided she wanted Angie to get an infusion of iron because she thinks Angie&#8217;s iron is low because she isn&#8217;t absorbing it.\u00a0 So, since we were coming out to Palo Alto anyway, we just came several hours earlier (and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[21,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}