{"id":231,"date":"2012-09-14T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-09-14T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T04:02:45","slug":"cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been diagnosed with Uterine Cancer. The doctor called her and delivered the news as she was waiting outside the high school to pick up our son.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know&#8230; hell <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong> don&#8217;t know what to make of this. I researched it and I know that if it is Endometrial and Stage 1 the recovery rate is better than 92%. Hell, even Stage 2 has pretty good recovery rates. But here we are with a diagnosis delivered on a Friday afternoon, and we won&#8217;t see the doctor until Wednesday&#8230; and what do we do?<\/p>\n<p>We watch TV. We go get her a new iPhone on Saturday. We play like everything is normal because we don&#8217;t know enough to believe anything else. We wobble between terror and optimism and have no idea what else to do.<\/p>\n<p>And in the most selfish, most ashamed part of me&#8230; I wish the damned doctor had just waited to tell her on Monday and left this weekend to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been diagnosed with Uterine Cancer. The doctor called her and delivered the news as she was waiting outside the high school to pick up our son. We don&#8217;t know&#8230; hell I don&#8217;t know what to make of this. I researched it and I know that if it is Endometrial and Stage 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-family","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}