{"id":92,"date":"2002-08-20T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=92"},"modified":"2002-08-20T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T14:50:00","slug":"im-almost-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-08\/92-im-almost-normal","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m almost normal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blood-wise, that is.<\/p>\n<p>I had a follow-up check up at my doctor&#8217;s office today. <!--more I don't have the hots for my doctor!-->Thanks to an administrative screw up of which I was not happy, they booked me an appointment on a day when my actual doctor was not there. So I trekked all the way across metro&#8211; by bus and subway and WALKING, no less!&#8211; only to find out that my cute doctoress was not there. Now I&#8217;m not saying I have the hots for my doctor&#8211; that would be unprofessional of me in a patient-doctor relationship&#8211; but seeing her does help to improve my mood. But she wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>My blood pressure is: 120\/90 (and 124\/90 on the second reading)<br \/>\nMy cholesterol is: Total = 5.29; triglycerides = 1.47; LDL (bad) = 3.54; HDL (good) = 1.08; ratio = 4.90<br \/>\nMy weight: 199 lbs (but different scale, different clothes from last time)<\/p>\n<p>The doctor says if I lose another 5 to 10 pounds, I should be able to control the blood pressure without drugs! Yay!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood-wise, that is. I had a follow-up check up at my doctor&#8217;s office today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}