{"id":102,"date":"2017-08-30T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T00:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/?p=102"},"modified":"2023-03-18T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:56:17","slug":"going-home-to-enjoy-life-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/going-home-to-enjoy-life-again\/","title":{"rendered":"going home to enjoy life again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father has been in the hospital for a week due to the seizures.\u00a0 He had a few more in hospital until they could get things sorted out with the medication.\u00a0 The meds seem to be working now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Laura called me to say everything was better and that he was going home tomorrow.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll use a hospital patient transfer service (like an ambulance except without the medical equipment or paramedics).<\/p>\n<p>Laura thinks he might be too weak for more radiation therapy.\u00a0 He&#8217;s lost muscle tone in his legs from being a week in hospital, and he&#8217;s only eaten a bit of sandwich per day.\u00a0 He would be hungry at 4pm, and they&#8217;d come with supper at 6pm; that doesn&#8217;t work, so Laura has been bringing him food.\u00a0 She tried to feed him some egg from a Tim&#8217;s breakfast sandwich.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve never eaten egg in my f###ing life!&#8221;\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t have his teeth in for the bacon.<\/p>\n<p>He loves sitting on the balcony looking at his yard.\u00a0 Laura has fixed it up quite nicely with flowers, trimmed shrubs, painted railings, and such.\u00a0 So he sits out there, has a coffee and cigarette, and enjoys life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father has been in the hospital for a week due to the seizures.\u00a0 He had a few more in hospital until they could get things sorted out with the medication.\u00a0 The meds seem to be working now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesjohnston.allansplace.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}