{"id":7,"date":"2006-01-14T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dellmar.net\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-01-14T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T14:50:13","slug":"the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/hospital-stay\/the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the first few days are over &#8211; I&#8217;m now settled in the room, with one or two things accomplished.  The TV, which was on a bracket 8 feet above floor level is now at comfortable viewing level, although the internal aerial gives uncertain reception!  I have a spare Freeview box at home, so that may improve matters if I can get it brought up here!<\/p>\n<p>Internet access remains fraught.  The problem is that all 0845 numbers are barred at the hospital exchange.  My consultant and nurse specialist are working on the case, meanwhile I have limited access through the mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment is continuing with the current two chemotherapeutic (spell that after a couple of pints!) agents, Fludarabine and Campath (the latter is a monoclonal anti-body) with few unpleasant side effects (so far).  There is another one due (which I won&#8217;t attempt to spell without looking at the drug chart) which has more side effects; the drugs to counter nausea are very effective, but there are none to counteract the hair loss!  I expect that it will remove the little fluffs of hair that is just starting to grow back after the debulking chemo before Christmas.  Ah well, I&#8217;ll save on the razor blades!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the first few days are over &#8211; I&#8217;m now settled in the room, with one or two things accomplished. The TV, which was on a bracket 8 feet above floor level is now at comfortable viewing level, although the internal aerial gives uncertain reception! I have a spare Freeview box at home, so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-stay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}