{"id":56,"date":"2011-01-18T11:21:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-01-18T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:21:07","slug":"pacemakers-and-walking-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Pacemakers and walking, oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mike.bensonk.net\/2011\/01\/wpid-IMG_20110118_091527.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dad is about to go into the operating theater again, and have his pacemaker installed. This will be done with some newfangled cameras and fancy dyes to be minimally invasive. The result will be a device that lets him function on his own, but takes over if his heart rate drops too low. It&#8217;ll be safe to dive to 130 feet, and other sports should be unaffected entirely. It&#8217;s a pretty exciting milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Once the pacemaker is in, he just needs to heal up a bit, and we can all go home.\u00a0 In 3 months, he&#8217;ll be back on his bike. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier he went walking again, which went well. The only thing keeping him from walking longer is getting cold in the hospital robe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad is about to go into the operating theater again, and have his pacemaker installed. This will be done with some newfangled cameras and fancy dyes to be minimally invasive. The result will be a device that lets him function on his own, but takes over if his heart rate drops too low. It&#8217;ll be [&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-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.bensonk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}