{"id":427,"date":"2009-07-23T04:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2009-07-23T04:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T08:07:19","slug":"less-than-24-hrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Less than 24 hrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last injection is in 21 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t feel the side effects lift for at least 24 to 48 hours after the injection, but today felt a lot easier than the previous few weeks.  I woke up feeling good, I had a kind-of-big meeting during the day (I haven&#8217;t had a meeting in weeks, if not months).  Maybe I just had a good day.<\/p>\n<p>But I feel how close the end is.  That sounds super cliche and kind of sentimental.  But I think that my mind has taken over, and knows it is going to be released from this cycle of&#8230; (think of non-cliche word for pain and suffering and fail&#8230;) &#8230;pain and suffering and it is kicking in the endorphins, or whatever, to get me through the last tiny little bit.  <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we are going to have a few people over for pizza, i&#8217;m going to do my last injection, and then we are going to pop some champagne to celebrate. <\/p>\n<p>I am going to go to sleep, and wake up to the rest of my life.  That sounds cliche, and maybe even ominous, but I&#8217;ve been waiting for this for 18 months now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last injection is in 21 hours. I shouldn&#8217;t feel the side effects lift for at least 24 to 48 hours after the injection, but today felt a lot easier than the previous few weeks. I woke up feeling good, I had a kind-of-big meeting during the day (I haven&#8217;t had a meeting in weeks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Less than 24 hrs<\/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":[52,69,27,64],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-endurance","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}