{"id":248,"date":"2014-08-01T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/?p=248"},"modified":"2014-08-01T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T05:59:56","slug":"rocks-on-the-road-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Rocks on the road to Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am going to start this post with a quote from someone I very much admire: \u00a0\u00c9ric Abidal<\/b>, A professional football (soccer) player who himself had to undergo a full liver transplant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe good news is that Heidi and her new liver are still in great condition. \u00a0The unfortunate news is that she has been suffering a bit more than usual recently. \u00a0Her pain is increasing, because the doctors are tapering down her\u00a0steroids, which is normal at this stage after a transplant. \u00a0This unfortunately causes pain around the incision, which makes her recovery a bit more tricky. \u00a0As a direct result of the increased pain, she is having more difficulty sleeping, which makes the recovery difficult.<\/p>\n

Heidi has also been suffering from intense muscle spasms in her mid-back, which have kept her prone for the last couple of days. \u00a0She is already in contact with her Nurse coordinator\u00a0who recommended that she get into Kaiser urgent care for treatment. \u00a0Steve was able to get her to Urgent care and they prescribed a muscle relaxer to help stop the spasms. \u00a0After waiting in the pharmacy for about 15-20 minutes, the pharmacist called Heidi’s name, only to tell us\u00a0that the script was flagged because the muscle relaxer would conflict with another drug that Heidi\u00a0had already taken as part of her normal regiment.<\/p>\n

So my parents left urgent care empty handed and waited for a call from the pharmacist\/doctor. \u00a0Luckily a few hours later, Kaiser called and they were able to give the okay for the prescription. \u00a0We are now waiting to see if the medication stops the spasms. \u00a0Heidi would very much like a comfortable, good, night’s sleep.<\/p>\n

Keep sending good vibes, Heidi needs all the help she gets. \u00a0Let us all hope she gets a good night’s rest tonight.<\/p>\n

Cheers,
\nParm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am going to start this post with a quote from someone I very much admire: \u00a0\u00c9ric Abidal, A professional football (soccer) player who himself had to undergo a full liver transplant. The good news is that Heidi and her new liver are still in great condition. \u00a0The unfortunate news is that she has been … Continue reading Rocks on the road to Recovery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmzilla.com\/liver\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}