{"id":219,"date":"2010-11-20T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-11-20T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T04:52:00","slug":"thankful-for-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"thankful for a good day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-261\" title=\"victoryarms\" src=\"http:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/victoryarms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\" \/><br \/>\nI woke up today and did exactly what the guy in this photo is doing! I shouted to Dana, &#8220;I feel alive!!!&#8221; Strange how feeling almost normal was such an overwhelming experience. I&#8217;ve obviously taken it for granted for the last 41 years!<!--more--><br \/>\nToday God allowed me to have no nausea, enjoy work, have meetings, and actually do some productive things. I still noticed some fatigue and weakness, but nothing like the previous five days of this week have felt! I kept finding myself overwhelmed with the welcome feeling of being functional. Wow! What a wimp I must be.<br \/>\nAfter a good day of work, we enjoyed time with friends who brought dinner by (Panera Bread&#8230; soup so good I didn&#8217;t know whether to eat it, pour it all over myself, or jump into it head first!) And now we&#8217;re just enjoying a quiet family evening and looking forward to Sunday.<br \/>\nSo, today I&#8217;m just really thankful for strength to feel nearly normal, and I pray it will last until my next treatment on the 29th. And I can&#8217;t WAIT until tomorrow!! I LOVE SUNDAYS!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up today and did exactly what the guy in this photo is doing! I shouted to Dana, &#8220;I feel alive!!!&#8221; Strange how feeling almost normal was such an overwhelming experience. I&#8217;ve obviously taken it for granted for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}