{"id":307,"date":"2008-11-06T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T02:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-11-06T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T02:45:53","slug":"in-which-i-declare-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/in-which-i-declare-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"in which i declare defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. Today I had a research day, and it was back to the article I got halfway through writing over the summer. But also my leg, which has been hurting when I walk for 10 days now, felt worse. And I finally got tired of it (I come from &#8220;walk it off&#8221; stock, but that only goes so far). So I fired up the internets* and found a rheumatologist with an opening this afternoon<\/p>\n<p>* Why didn&#8217;t I ask <a href=\"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/open-the-till-give-me-the-change\/\">my GP<\/a>, whom you may recall that I love love love, for a recommendation? Because she moved to the suburbs last summer, sniff, and I am so sad that I have yet to find a new one.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently if you are a mostly healthy person you will make a rheumatologist&#8217;s day, because he kept making comments about how it&#8217;s good to have someone healthy come in every so often, just to make sure the equipment is working.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict is tendinitis (though he took an xray just to be certain), but the mystery remains as to why. I&#8217;m definitely clumsy, but I didn&#8217;t bump it or have any sort of injury. The dr sent me away with a prescription for an anti-inflammatory and instructions to rest, which of course I&#8217;ve been trying to do all along. As you can tell, I am cranky: I haven&#8217;t had my mind-clearing, thought-provoking walk to work in over a week!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also incredibly busy, and thinking that I should drop this NaBloPoMo thing this year before I go insane. Or at least move it to the back burner.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having decided that, I had to blag to tell you. So maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Today I had a research day, and it was back to the article I got halfway through writing over the summer. But also my leg, which has been hurting when I walk for 10 days now, felt worse. And I finally got tired of it (I come from &#8220;walk it off&#8221; stock, but that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}