{"id":1257,"date":"2021-05-26T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T21:34:33","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/05\/26\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"210\" data-attachment-id=\"1258\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/05\/26\/update\/website-image-update\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg?fit=1000%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"website-image-update\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg?fit=525%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg?resize=525%2C210\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg?resize=300%2C120&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/website-image-update.jpg?resize=768%2C307&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a few brief updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had the second <a href=\"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/04\/23\/hotel-california\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236\">IVIG treatment <\/a>last Friday which was uneventful&#8230; always a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blood work is now down to once a week and my Neutrophils are greater than 1 without being supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drugs.com\/uk\/grastofil.html\">Grastofil\/filgrastim<\/a> injections. This is good too because it means I can stop the injections and a couple of the medications, particularly the really expensive one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My second pentamidine treatment is scheduled for May 31 at HSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A second MRI of my heart is scheduled for June 9th to be compared to the February 1, 2021 imaging in an effort to diagnose the chest pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 18th will be a busy day with the PET scan followed by IVIG treatment #3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 21st we will meet with the oncologist for the results of the PET scan. A big day for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few brief updates. I had the second IVIG treatment last Friday which was uneventful&#8230; always a good thing. Blood work is now down to once a week and my Neutrophils are greater than 1 without being supported by Grastofil\/filgrastim injections. This is good too because it means I can stop the injections and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/05\/26\/update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}