{"id":2015,"date":"2017-09-12T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2017-09-12T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:59:13","slug":"a-few-days-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2015","title":{"rendered":"A few days off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went to meet a new doctor to discuss a surgical approach to opening up my arteries in my right leg.  The stents and stuff I&#8217;ve done thus far were prep work for this maneuver, but I didn&#8217;t know when it would be needed.  An ultrasound (aka doppler) done last week showed some serious trouble, and my right foot is a real pain because it isn&#8217;t getting enough oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>I want to get this done so I can make a decision about traveling this year.  All summer long I&#8217;ve been waiting for appointments, doing little stuff, and then more waiting.  I expressed my opinion that I want this stuff to hurry up, and when asked when I would like it done I said &#8220;tomorrow&#8221;.  So tomorrow it is.<\/p>\n<p>My insurance isn&#8217;t really capable of making the pre-approval decision in days or weeks, let alone hours.  My doctors are clever enough to know the tricks for dealing with the insurance companies, and on this one I go to the emergency entrance and check myself in.  By the time the insurance company hears about it, the work is done.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I should expect to be laid up for a bit.  I&#8217;ll write again when get home and have the internet&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went to meet a new doctor to discuss a surgical approach to opening up my arteries in my right leg. The stents and stuff I&#8217;ve done thus far were prep work for this maneuver, but I didn&#8217;t know when it would be needed. An ultrasound (aka doppler) done last week showed some serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}