{"id":31461,"date":"2022-08-11T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=31461"},"modified":"2022-08-11T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:34:14","slug":"new-reality-update-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=31461","title":{"rendered":"New Reality Update II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous update: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=31269\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest:\u00a0I wore a heart monitor for a month. Two days ago the cardiologist called with the results: the monitor picked up occasional extra beats in both the upper and lower chambers, nothing unusual for a person my age (75). He scheduled me for a followup EKG in November. That&#8217;s what the cardiologist said. Good news, no?<\/p>\n<p>What he didn&#8217;t say: that I can quit taking the heart meds I&#8217;ve been on for the past few months. I take the combination of what my cardiologist did and didn&#8217;t say to mean\u00a0there is a problem (maybe not a big one, but still) and I need to continue taking meds to keep it under control.<\/p>\n<p>I can live with that &#8230; metaphorically and literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a problem (maybe not a big one, but still) and the meds are working to keep it under control. I can live with that &#8230; metaphorically and literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3937],"class_list":["post-31461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-afib"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31464,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions\/31464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}