{"id":3694,"date":"2016-01-30T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2016-01-30T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:26:21","slug":"one-more-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2016\/01\/30\/one-more-week\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-sixths of the way thru radiation therapy.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have the vocabulary to describe what\u2019s going on in my mouth and down my throat. It hurts\u2026 kind of. But it\u2019s not ouchy. It\u2019s sore\u2026 kind of. But it doesn\u2019t ache. Mainly I don\u2019t want to talk much.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t have the vocabulary to describe what food tastes like, mainly because my taste buds have ceased all functioning and food is now just a necessary evil to keep the hunger pangs at bay. There is really no joy in it, which is rather disconcerting for my Houston and Austin family who are working overtime to prepare meals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2016\/01\/i-tb5wrzf\/0\/M\/mouth-M.jpg\" alt=\"Mouth\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this isn\u2019t complaining, regardless of what the artwork might suggest. The doctors are impressed that I haven\u2019t started the narcotic pain meds, seeing as how Advil and Tylenol work fine. And the nurses are happy to see a little hop in my step, although truth be told that was just once, otherwise I walk\u00a0<em>very slowly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Five-sixths of the way, then. One week to go. Even though they say that the side effects will continue to build for two or three weeks after the treatment, I look forward to week nights in my own bed. I look forward to taking out the garbage. To burying the compost. To both dogs barking at the front door. I even look forward to rush hour traffic!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, one more week and all these things will be mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-sixths of the way thru radiation therapy. I don\u2019t have the vocabulary to describe what\u2019s going on in my mouth and down my throat. It hurts\u2026 kind of. But it\u2019s not ouchy. It\u2019s sore\u2026 kind of. But it doesn\u2019t ache. Mainly I don\u2019t want to talk much. And I don\u2019t have the vocabulary to describe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}