{"id":407,"date":"2001-03-23T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-23T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/23\/yay_more_blood\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:23:06","slug":"yay_more_blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/23\/yay_more_blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Yay! More Blood Samples!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve had it with giving blood samples.<\/strong> I\u2019m squeamish about needles under the best of circumstances, although I smile bravely and don\u2019t make a fuss when they\u2019re rquired. It\u2019s a bit harder now knowing that those samples really <i>mean something.<\/i> I had more blood drawn today, about two weeks after the last batch, so that my doctor can start to plot curves for my viral load and T-cell counts.<\/p>\n<p>The thought that two weeks may show a change, for better or worse, is chilling. It doesn\u2019t help much to think about how much worse I\u2019ve felt lately, just from the constant stress of all this hulaballoo. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not helping me much to be so wound up, so lethargic.<\/p>\n<p>But I smile bravely and don\u2019t make a fuss, even though I\u2019d really like to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had it with giving blood samples. I\u2019m squeamish about needles under the best of circumstances, although I smile bravely and don\u2019t make a fuss when they\u2019re rquired. It\u2019s a bit harder now knowing that those samples really mean something. I had more blood drawn today, about two weeks after the last batch, so that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/23\/yay_more_blood\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yay! More Blood Samples!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapositive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77085,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/77085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}