{"id":62,"date":"2003-04-08T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/index.php\/2003\/04\/08\/the-six-month-checkup\/"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:08:32","slug":"the-six-month-checkup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2003\/04\/08\/the-six-month-checkup\/","title":{"rendered":"The six month checkup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a CAT scan on Monday March 31, 2003.  This was scheduled back in October, 2002, as a six-month checkup on the cancer.  On April 7, I saw my oncologist to hear the results and have a basic physical checkup.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The CAT scan is one of the worst tests that I&#8217;ve had to endure.  They make you drink a Barium solution so that they can get the images from the scan.  It&#8217;s AWFUL!  And it makes me sick the next day &#8212; although I don&#8217;t think that happens for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The results are that the cancer is still in remission.  All my blood counts and various other measurements were normal.  The doctor told me, &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing wrong with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve scheduled another checkup for October, where he will probably only do some blood tests.  At that time he will request another stomach scoping to get a first-hand look at things.<\/p>\n<p>Vivian and I are thankful to God that the results are good.  I can spend this summer continuing to lose the weight I gained on the chemo last year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a CAT scan on Monday March 31, 2003. This was scheduled back in October, 2002, as a six-month checkup on the cancer. On April 7, I saw my oncologist to hear the results and have a basic physical checkup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricks_cancer","tag-ricks-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}