{"id":44,"date":"2011-01-16T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/?p=44"},"modified":"2011-01-16T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T07:14:06","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Progress!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today dad passed a number of great milestones:<\/p>\n

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  1. His catheter was removed<\/li>\n
  2. One of the monitoring catheters which monitored his pulmonary artery was removed<\/li>\n
  3. He had a bath<\/li>\n
  4. He had a number of family members and friends visit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Other good news is on the pacemaker front: \u00a0Because Dad’s sinoatrial node is working correctly, a pacemaker could trigger the ventricles based on what the sinoatrial node is doing. \u00a0Plainly: his heart rate would be governed in exactly the same way it always has been, the pacemaker would just make sure the heart muscle keeps pumping blood correctly. \u00a0This means that working hard on a mountain bike is still feasible. \u00a0We still have unanswered questions about whether the pacemaker would be compatible with both mountain biking and diving, but the docs are doing research and will get back to us.<\/p>\n

    Dad’s pain meds were pretty strong this morning as a result of last night’s pain, and he was a little bit looped. \u00a0As the day wore on, he became more alert and conversational. \u00a0By the end of the day, he was able to carry on a conversation with us, and rated his pain all the way down at 2 on a scale of 10.<\/p>\n

    It was great to see lots of folks visit today. \u00a0It’d be great to have more people visit, but we don’t want to overwhelm him at this point. \u00a0If you’re interested in coming by for a visit, please let us know, and we’ll try to organize things. \u00a0Mom and I think that having lots of friendly faces is helpful as long as he’s getting enough rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today dad passed a number of great milestones: His catheter was removed One of the monitoring catheters which monitored his pulmonary artery was removed He had a bath He had a number of family members and friends visit Other good news is on the pacemaker front: \u00a0Because Dad’s sinoatrial node is working correctly, a pacemaker […]<\/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-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}