{"id":1178,"date":"2009-02-16T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2009-02-16T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:36:59","slug":"the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"The HOSPITAL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">Well, today I am going to spend the night in the hospital, it seems. Ugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\">I really don&#8217;t feel that bad, it&#8217;s a procedural thing. My fever went away, then came back a little, and the PCMO (Peace Corps medical officer) said I should go to the hospital, since we were in town anyways, and get checked out. Besides the standard exam stuff, they decided they needed 3 vials of blood, 4 blood smear slides, a urine sample, a stool sample, three head x-rays, and two chest x-rays. It all feels very silly, as I no longer have a fever as of noon. The chest X-ray was especially odd; they took the first one, and the tech came back in and said, &#8220;Do you exercise? Your lungs are HUGE, we have to do it again.&#8221; Huh. I think they must just be used to zapping tiny Guatemalans instead of &#8220;giant&#8221; gringoes.<br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">update: 4 Guatemalan nurses just came in, and told me I can&#8217;t eat anything until after they ultrasound my stomache at 4pm. WHAT THE HECK???!?!? you&#8217;d think I had the black plague, or ebola, or avian flu or something like that. Dude, they don&#8217;t have a clue and are just grasping at straws. I am OUT of here tomorrow morning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today I am going to spend the night in the hospital, it seems. Ugh. I really don&#8217;t feel that bad, it&#8217;s a procedural thing. My fever went away, then came back a little, and the PCMO (Peace Corps medical officer) said I should go to the hospital, since we were in town anyways, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}