{"id":196,"date":"2008-06-02T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-06-03T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:00:09","slug":"recoveringfromsurgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/recoveringfromsurgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, everybody, for your prayers and well-wishes for us since my surgery.\u00a0 I am doing very well and hope to be back to normal in a couple more weeks.\u00a0 I have been very well taken care of:\u00a0 My wonderful, adorable, thoughtful husband has been at my beck and call as much as possible since I got home from the hospital.\u00a0 He and Jon spent a large portion of their Memorial weekend entertaining me (playing &#8220;Secret of Mana&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/afront.gif\"><img data-attachment-id=\"198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/recoveringfromsurgery\/afront\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/afront.gif\" data-orig-size=\"20,32\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"afront\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;My &#8220;Secret of Mana&#8221; character&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/afront.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/afront.gif\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-198\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"afront\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/afront.gif\" alt=\"My \\\" width=\"20\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a> with me for hours on end).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/s697067952_222961_6489.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"200\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/recoveringfromsurgery\/s697067952_222961_6489\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/s697067952_222961_6489.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"86,130\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"s697067952_222961_6489\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jaquie&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/s697067952_222961_6489.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/s697067952_222961_6489.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-200\" title=\"s697067952_222961_6489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/s697067952_222961_6489.jpg\" alt=\"Jaquie\" width=\"86\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>My mother-in-law, Kathy, visited for a week to keep our house running smoothly.\u00a0 I received phone calls and visits from wonderful friends in my ward and from family members all over the country (thanks, Audrey!).\u00a0 I even had my own pet therapist on hand: Jaquie wisely stayed off my lap, but spent long hours curled up next to me on the couch or my bed.<\/p>\n<p>Getting around the house is still a little difficult because of the incision (for those ladies who have had a C-section, you probably know what I mean), and I can&#8217;t carry very much or drive yet, but I&#8217;m certainly improving.\u00a0 My doctor called when she received the lab results on the cysts they removed to report that everything was benign &#8211; hooray!!\u00a0 My post-op appointment is next Tuesday, so if there is anything else interesting to relate, I&#8217;ll keep the blog posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, everybody, for your prayers and well-wishes for us since my surgery.\u00a0 I am doing very well and hope to be back to normal in a couple more weeks.\u00a0 I have been very well taken care of:\u00a0 My wonderful, adorable, thoughtful husband has been at my beck and call as much as possible since [&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":[101,31,111,120,29,33,30],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}