{"id":216,"date":"2009-01-16T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2009-01-16T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:05:00","slug":"cant-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its late, i&#8217;m up.\u00c2\u00a0 Tossing and turning in bed.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about the blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking about being done with treatment. I was thinking about how I will have to transition to a new state of not-quite-healthy-forever.\u00c2\u00a0 All my lesions will go away.\u00c2\u00a0 All my dysesthesia will be under control.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have a rough time coming down off of my Klonopin, and I&#8217;ll get my sex drive back.\u00c2\u00a0 But I will still be living with a 15 to 30 percent &#8216;rate of re-ocurrance.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t want to do this again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Depending on how you count, next week is halfway through the 12 month treatment, or two weeks later is halfway through the 48 week self-injection sequence.<\/p>\n<p>And the end of February is the one year mark since I was diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p><em>I don&#8217;t want to do this again.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its late, i&#8217;m up.\u00c2\u00a0 Tossing and turning in bed. I was thinking about the blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking about being done with treatment. I was thinking about how I will have to transition to a new state of not-quite-healthy-forever.\u00c2\u00a0 All my lesions will go away.\u00c2\u00a0 All my dysesthesia will be under control.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can&#8217;t Sleep<\/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":[20,52,25,23,42],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-diagnosis","tag-endurance","tag-fatigue","tag-fear","tag-self-injection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}