{"id":20747,"date":"2024-01-11T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=20747"},"modified":"2024-01-13T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:01:31","slug":"endoscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=20747","title":{"rendered":"Endoscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The doc found a 1 cm ulcer and an enlarged hiatal hernia.  In other words, worse than my last endo 4 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron didn&#8217;t get ready in time to drive me to the hospital, then kept me waiting for two hours because he was too stubborn to take Route 7 &#8211; a straight shot from Williamstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nurses were remarkable.  Three of them were on the phone with Ron giving him directions.  The nursing director got coffee and a lunch for me, courtesy of the hospital.  The anesthesiologist tried to find a solution, but every alternative would have involved discharging me AMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My insurance company would have covered the claim even so.  Fortunately, it&#8217;s no longer an issue since Ron finally showed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I plan to go back tomorrow to pick up the Corolla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doc found a 1 cm ulcer and an enlarged hiatal hernia. In other words, worse than my last endo 4 years ago.Ron didn&#8217;t get ready in time to drive me to the hospital, then kept me waiting for two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=20747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20749,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20747\/revisions\/20749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}