{"id":22,"date":"2018-05-11T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T21:48:35","slug":"prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2018\/05\/11\/prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what lead up to <a href=\"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2018\/05\/10\/day-zero\/\">Day Zero<\/a>? How did I get here? Some seemingly normal events turned out to have a very unexpected outcome, a cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>In February I had a cold\/flu that was hanging on longer that most that I&#8217;ve experienced but that wasn&#8217;t the main issue. I was having left shoulder pain, mainly in the 1-2 hours after going to bed. This is the shoulder that I dislocated in 2005 while mountain biking on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mdhta.com\">Maah Daah Hey<\/a> trail with the boys. I had assumed this was just payback time and arthritis had set in, but the x-ray said &#8220;no&#8221;. However, the pain persisted and so did my Dr. visits. Each time I&#8217;d mention my shortness of breath and cough which was attributed to getting over the cold\/flu. In hindsight all of these symptoms are linked to the cancer tumor. On the May 10th visit another chest x-ray was taken and that&#8217;s what really kicked everything into high gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what lead up to Day Zero? How did I get here? Some seemingly normal events turned out to have a very unexpected outcome, a cancer diagnosis. In February I had a cold\/flu that was hanging on longer that most that I&#8217;ve experienced but that wasn&#8217;t the main issue. I was having left shoulder pain, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2018\/05\/11\/prologue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prologue&#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-22","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\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}