{"id":23,"date":"2007-06-15T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/further-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T22:10:20","slug":"further-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/further-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ultrasound is scheduled for next Tuesday and the GERD medicine has been helping. No severe pain&#8230;just a small aching every once in a while. The Mayo Clinic has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/gallstones\/DS00165\">article<\/a> on gallstones. Most of the causes I&#8217;ve done most of my life. It&#8217;s only recently I&#8217;ve turned my eating and exercise habits around. Overweight&#8230;check. Skipping breakfast&#8230;check. Low fiber\/high cholesterol diet&#8230;check. Crash diet where more than 3 pounds a week was lost and consumed less than 800 calories a day&#8230;if we consider my senior year of high school when I had mono and I didn&#8217;t eat or drink for a month&#8230;check. I actually think most of the damage might have been done during mono because I literally did nothing for a month. I barely ate or drank. Mom would occasionally get a Mountain Dew down me. I slept constantly. Introduction of estrogen in birth control pills and pregnancy&#8230;check and check. Thinking back, I used to get horrible pains while on the pill. I thought it was it was cramps because I&#8217;d never experience cramps before. I&#8217;d probably had attacks back then and not realized.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. We&#8217;ll have to wait and see what the blood work and ultrasound say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ultrasound is scheduled for next Tuesday and the GERD medicine has been helping. No severe pain&#8230;just a small aching every once in a while. The Mayo Clinic has a great article on gallstones. Most of the causes I&#8217;ve done&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/further-thoughts\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,7],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jenn","tag-physical-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gofranks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}