{"id":155,"date":"2018-10-04T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/?p=155"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T21:11:52","slug":"cycle-6-day-4-sleepless-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2018\/10\/04\/cycle-6-day-4-sleepless-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle 6 &#8211; Day 4: Sleepless &#038; Waiting &#8211; Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was the usual interrupted sleep. I think I was up 4 times for the bathroom as the increased water consumption and the drugs seem to keep you pretty &#8220;busy&#8221;. \u00a0Thanks to the prednisone it takes a long time to fall back a sleep each time. I just lay there thinking about all sorts of random things but eventually I drift off for 1-2 hours before the next &#8220;awakening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And now its waiting. Waiting for the PET scan and the result review with the oncologists in about 7-8 weeks. Seems like a long time right now. Trying to keep positive and in faith about the results. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+103%3A3&amp;version=NIV\">Psalm 103:3<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=psalm+91&amp;version=NIV\">Psalm 91<\/a>, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=psalm+91%3A16&amp;version=NIV\">Psalm 91:16<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong><\/em>: The wait is not as long as I estimated. My PET scan is scheduled for November 1st and the oncologist review will be shortly after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was the usual interrupted sleep. I think I was up 4 times for the bathroom as the increased water consumption and the drugs seem to keep you pretty &#8220;busy&#8221;. \u00a0Thanks to the prednisone it takes a long time to fall back a sleep each time. I just lay there thinking about all sorts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2018\/10\/04\/cycle-6-day-4-sleepless-waiting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycle 6 &#8211; Day 4: Sleepless &#038; Waiting &#8211; Updated&#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-155","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\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}