{"id":15,"date":"2024-04-27T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2024-04-27T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T00:17:09","slug":"still-a-bit-unwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/still-a-bit-unwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Still A Bit Unwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since last Sunday, I&#8217;ve had gut issue.\u00a0 Sunday night and much of Monday I was puking with some regularity.\u00a0 Then whatever bug it was descended to my lower guy, providing interesting races to the toilet.\u00a0 &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n<p>Monday I have to get a blood draw to check my kidney function before a CT Scan on Friday.\u00a0 I had a regular annual follow-up scan a few weeks ago and they had questions.\u00a0 Not sure what they saw, or thought they saw, but there were questions concerning a &#8220;soft tissue mass&#8221; in my upper abdomen, so they&#8217;re going in with contrast dye to see if they can figure it out.\u00a0 And then a couple weeks after that I have to do a colonoscopy.\u00a0 And between the scan and the &#8216;scopy I have to see the urologist for my annual visit there.\u00a0 Oh joy, eh?<\/p>\n<p>So I have doctor visits every week the next three weeks, which upsets me because they have large co-pays and they will take time out of my days when I should be tweaking the Web sites and dyeing yarn and making money.\u00a0 \u00a0I don&#8217;t need that much stress in my life.<\/p>\n<p>And, I realize I will be 70 on my next birthday.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have a lot of birthdays left.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to work until I die,\u00a0 I want to have some time when I am confident my bills will be paid, I&#8217;ll have a place to live and food to eat, and access to things to actually DO.\u00a0 There&#8217;s fairly little to do here, unless I want to visit yet another copy-cat strip mall and spend money I don&#8217;t have on things I don&#8217;t need.\u00a0 I would much rather live closer into town with easy bus access to museums, life theater, and other activities in town. I supposed without a major benefactor to leave me a significant trust fund, I suppose I will likely die without doing any of that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not being morbid or maudlin, just recognizing that the sum of my life isn&#8217;t what I would have hope it could have been. Few people will miss me, and even fewer will notice I&#8217;m gone, when the time comes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m mostly okay with that, since my whole life has been just that way.<\/p>\n<p>But enough of that for now.\u00a0 I need to get my crap together for a fairly early night so I can be well-rested for tomorrow, a work day for me.\u00a0 \u00a0Yarns to dye and sell, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since last Sunday, I&#8217;ve had gut issue.\u00a0 Sunday night and much of Monday I was puking with some regularity.\u00a0 Then whatever bug it was descended to my lower guy, providing interesting races to the toilet.\u00a0 &#8216;Nuff said. Monday I have to get a blood draw to check my kidney function before a CT Scan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/still-a-bit-unwell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still A Bit Unwell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raywhiting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}