{"id":163,"date":"2004-08-19T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squids.ca\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/19\/dads-home\/"},"modified":"2004-08-19T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T04:58:22","slug":"dads-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Dad&#8217;s home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve added anyting, but every time I sit down to type something, I don&#8217;t know what to say or talk about.  Turns out I have to talk about my Dad.<\/p>\n<p>He went in for surgury to get a colostomy bag so he&#8217;d be more comfortable, but they ended up taking the tumour out and fixed up his plumbing instead.  Apparently this doctor is very pragmatic about doing the reconstruction, and won&#8217;t do it unless he feels good about the recovery.  So, this is good news.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Dad was supposed to come home from the hospital on Tuesday last, but he came down with a fever.  A little bit scary at the time because they weren&#8217;t sure if it was a leak or what was going on, so they took him for a CAT scan.  Everything came back normal, and it turns out he just had a simple urinary tract infection.  Antibiotics cleared it right up, and he came home today.<\/p>\n<p>He still looks VERY tired and a little sunken, but I think you would too if you haven&#8217;t eaten anyting for the past 2 months and underwent relatively major surgury!  Our task now is to fatten him back up for the trials ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve added anyting, but every time I sit down to type something, I don&#8217;t know what to say or talk about. Turns out I have to talk about my Dad. He went in for surgury to get a colostomy bag so he&#8217;d be more comfortable, but they ended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}