{"id":202,"date":"2006-03-24T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2006-03-25T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T00:58:19","slug":"stranger-things-have-happened-but-i-dont-know-to-whom-or-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/stranger-things-have-happened-but-i-dont-know-to-whom-or-where\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things Have Happened (But I Don&#8217;t know to whom or where)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About three weeks ago, I met with the surgeons at the V.A. and was officially set-up for Thyroid surgery on the 24th of March&#8230;..  Everyday since then, I&#8217;ve awoke with knots in the stomach, nervousness, sleeplessness, and headaches just thinking of all the possible outcomes of the surgery, but, there was one scenario that had never entered my mind&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>After a very short and unrestfull night, and after Jek chopped about six inches of my hair off (the VA doesn&#8217;t like long hair in the operating room)&#8230;..<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/vaheadshot.jpg' alt='VA Headshot'\/><br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;I got up this morning, unable to eat or drink, had to swish some very foul tasting germ-killer around in my mouth, and be at the V.A. by 8:00 am to check-in&#8230;..  We got there, checked in, had my vitals taken, talked with the anesthesiologist, signed all the release forms, got my spiffy double arm bands,&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/vaarmband.jpg' alt='VA Armband' \/><br \/>\n&#8230;.and was sitting around to be taken to pre-op to get all the tubes stuck in and knocked-out for surgery&#8230;.. Then the unthinkable scenario mentioned above kicked-in&#8230;.  A female doctor entered the room and said the following &#8211; Are you ready?&#8230;. Any guesses?&#8230;.  &#8220;The surgeon, Dr. Le, called in sick and the surgery is cancelled.&#8221;&#8230;. So-o-o, I&#8217;m basically back to square one and looking at three to four weeks for a reschedule&#8230;.  Jek and a few others made wasted trips in from far away places and I&#8217;m back to the sleeplessness, nervousness, etc., for ANOTHER three weeks or so&#8230;.  What can I say but that I dislike the V.A, but what can you do?&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Again, thanks for all the support and I&#8217;ll need it again in a few weeks&#8230;.  I actually am going to try and get the surgery changed to the Seattle V.A., so if it gets cancelled again I can at least have a vacation to untie all of knots.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, here are some alternate titles for this post:  Feel free to add to the list.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Tagged but not Bagged&#8221;&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This could only happen to Me&#8221;&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What if you had surgery and the surgeon didn&#8217;t show?&#8221;&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ill doctor afraid of making 6 ft. incision with sneeze&#8221;&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;V.A. Today, Thyroid Tomorrow&#8221;&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three weeks ago, I met with the surgeons at the V.A. and was officially set-up for Thyroid surgery on the 24th of March&#8230;.. Everyday since then, I&#8217;ve awoke with knots in the stomach, nervousness, sleeplessness, and headaches just thinking of all the possible outcomes of the surgery, but, there was one scenario that had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,26,15,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}