{"id":7095,"date":"2014-03-24T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:23:40","slug":"home-again-home-again-jiggedy-jig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7095","title":{"rendered":"Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy-Jig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0019\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7356\/13368758914_eb0247dd61.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7356\/13368758914_eb0247dd61_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0019\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0024\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3758\/13368528873_05248192ab.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3758\/13368528873_05248192ab_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0026\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3672\/13368767524_a050510a7c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3672\/13368767524_a050510a7c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am finally home again, recovering slowly and growing stronger every day. After a full week of absolute starvation, my dreams hijacked by the promise of a juicy cheeseburger with everything and cheese oozing out from under the bun- the pornography of the hungry, I find myself nearly 10 pounds lighter but making up for lost time. I&#8217;m sure it will all come back soon, but for now I find myself disturbed by the skeletal arms, legs, and bony ribcage I see looking back in the mirror. It was an\u00a0<em>entire week&#8217;s fast,\u00a0<\/em>I tell myself. I am lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the &#8220;feeling better&#8221; I attribute to getting off the narcotics by day two after the surgery. I&#8217;ve never done well or enjoyed the way pain medications make me feel- in this case I switched to Tylenol and felt immensely better, happier to stand a bit of pain than to succumb to the side-effects of the heavy stuff. I couldn&#8217;t be in tune with my body and pay attention to what it was trying to tell me when all doped up.<\/p>\n<p>Getting home to my boys and Andrew was the best thing in the world for me- seeing them was the best medicine, and then I did nothing but sleep the entire first night and day I was home! Andrew is absolutely incredible, doing all my dressing changes with a headlamp and gloves and as gentle and concerned as can be (plus last night he ran out and got me that dream burger!). I cannot imagine any of this without him. So grateful. So humbled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finally home again, recovering slowly and growing stronger every day. After a full week of absolute starvation, my dreams hijacked by the promise of a juicy cheeseburger with everything and cheese oozing out from under the bun- the pornography of the hungry, I find myself nearly 10 pounds lighter but making up for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home Again, Home Again, Jiggedy-Jig&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,187],"tags":[58,151,61],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-motherhood","tag-friends","tag-hospital","tag-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11782,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/11782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}