{"id":178,"date":"2008-11-19T23:36:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T06:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-11-19T23:36:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T06:36:55","slug":"some-up-some-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"some up some down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news for today is that I didn&#8217;t have any pins and needles.\u00c2\u00a0 I stayed inside most of the day.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is done.\u00c2\u00a0 And I didn&#8217;t do any public speaking.\u00c2\u00a0 And I was chill, and chilled.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that my body continues to fall apart.\u00c2\u00a0 I woke up with a swollen something-or-other in my right cheek.\u00c2\u00a0 It is right above the back of my jawbone.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels like it is 10mm in diameter, but its probably smaller.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a corresponding lesion on my right side of my tongue.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I think I have a lesion in my left nostril.<\/p>\n<p>And most humiliatingly, I have a large mole on my ass that is raw all of a sudden.\u00c2\u00a0 It hurts really bad.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems almost like it is bleeding or something.\u00c2\u00a0 My Dermatologist has checked it several times and cleared it each time.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;m not worried that it is a Melanoma.\u00c2\u00a0 But it hurts, and I worry about my ability to heal.\u00c2\u00a0 And the worst part is that I can&#8217;t see it.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried taking pictures, but that didn&#8217;t really work.\u00c2\u00a0 Try aiming a point and shoot camera in macro mode at your ass really close up and try to get results&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 it doesn&#8217;t work very well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news for today is that I didn&#8217;t have any pins and needles.\u00c2\u00a0 I stayed inside most of the day.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is done.\u00c2\u00a0 And I didn&#8217;t do any public speaking.\u00c2\u00a0 And I was chill, and chilled. The bad news is that my body continues to fall apart.\u00c2\u00a0 I woke up with a swollen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">some up some down<\/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":[44,54,58,48,50,57],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-hope","tag-immunosuppressed","tag-lesion","tag-mole","tag-pins-and-needles","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}