{"id":104,"date":"2006-12-14T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdgsafety.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/14\/too-much-is-apparently-never-enough\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T16:22:00","slug":"too-much-is-apparently-never-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/2006\/12\/14\/too-much-is-apparently-never-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much is, apparently, Never Enough."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to the podiatrist today was a mixed blessing. The wound I have been nursing for months is healing well. Oxygen treatments and diligent care are paying off. But a long talk with the doc enlightened me to something I had been <em>desperately<\/em> not hearing. Many of the conditions I have been living under, I have been addressing with <em>attached italics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For example, my doctor would say &#8220;<strong>You are going to have to stay off that foot as much as possible<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I would hear &#8220;<strong>You are going to have to stay off that foot as much as possible <em>until the wound heals<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what he said.<\/p>\n<p>I am at risk of developing a bad case of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footphysicians.com\/footankleinfo\/charcot-foot.htm\">Charcot Foot,<\/a> a nasty diabetic complication triggered by the removal of bones in my foot due to surgery. This is not a &#8220;<em>until it gets better<\/em>&#8221; thing. This is an <strong>indefinite&nbsp;preventative medicine <\/strong>thing. It means some of the changes to my life- like the wheelchair in my living room, and the restriction on doing anything which involves walking- these are not &#8220;<em>until the wound heals<\/em>&#8220;. These changes are <strong>permanent.&nbsp;<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I&#8217;m <strong>not<\/strong> crippled. I <strong>can<\/strong> walk. But whenever I have the option, I <strong><em>shouldn&#8217;t.<br \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>Crap.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t even want to KNOW what the rest of my day brought.<\/p>\n<p>Board meeting tonight. Gotta get ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to the podiatrist today was a mixed blessing. The wound I have been nursing for months is healing well. Oxygen treatments and diligent care are paying off. But a long talk with the doc enlightened me to something I had been desperately not hearing. Many of the conditions I have been living under, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}