{"id":23186,"date":"2024-05-11T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2024-05-11T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T16:23:03","slug":"the-state-of-my-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23186","title":{"rendered":"The State of My Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>My new retinoschisis medication makes it harder for me to stay hydrated, and it seems to have worsened my tinnitus. Otherwise I&#8217;ve been doing OK with it. My eyes at least feel stronger. That is, I&#8217;ve had fewer bleary-eyed days since the medication switch. At my eye doctor&#8217;s appointment this week, photographs of my retinas revealed no improvement, but also no worsening. I&#8217;ll take that as a win.<\/li><li>I went in for routine bloodwork recently. The lab took five (!) vials of blood. The test results were mostly good, but my vitamin D levels are lower than recommended, and there was another minor anomaly that I should probably talk to my doctor about that. However, first I have to go get more blood drawn, because the lab apparently screwed up and didn&#8217;t run one of the panels. And of course it will require 12 hour fasting. Ugh.<\/li><li>I got another bill from the hospital this week. It said that I&#8217;d better pay up or the hospital will send the bill to collections. Geez, would they just get on with it already! I told them I wasn&#8217;t going to pay. They&#8217;re just wasting paper every time they send me a bill. Meanwhile, sort of ironically, the effects of the cortisone shot have now worn off. I&#8217;m back to limping. And to think it&#8217;s because I sprained my knee playing basketball in gym class back when I was in middle school. Funny how such a small thing can stay with you all your life and turn into a big problem over time.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new retinoschisis medication makes it harder for me to stay hydrated, and it seems to have worsened my tinnitus. Otherwise I&#8217;ve been doing OK with it. My eyes at least feel stronger. That is, I&#8217;ve had fewer bleary-eyed days &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23188,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}