{"id":770,"date":"2010-02-24T21:33:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T05:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:33:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T05:33:52","slug":"poking-prodding-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2010\/02\/24\/poking-prodding-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Poking &#038; Prodding &#038; Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gman_radiology.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/gman_radiology_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" align=\"left\"><\/a> Noon today saw our little guy trussed up a bit like Frankenstein, Velcroed to a table with an IV and a catheter jabbed into him.  We were in the basement of the Lucille Packard Children&#8217;s Hospital, where technicians pumped a radioactive solution through Henry&#8217;s system to check his kidney function.  (The speed of the process, they said, would tell us about whether his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ureter\">ureters<\/a> are constricted or blocked.)<\/p>\n<p>Things got pretty rough for a while, with Henry crying &#038; me unable to pick him up, being able only to kiss &#038; sing to him.  Offering him a bottle of water helped a great deal, though, and finally he fell asleep for part of the 45-minute procedure.  Whew.  Now we wait (again) for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The good news, of course, is that the little guy remains healthy &#038; happy, with no evidence of trouble.  We continue to feel blessed to have access to such good health care, and we look forward to finding out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noon today saw our little guy trussed up a bit like Frankenstein, Velcroed to a table with an IV and a catheter jabbed into him. We were in the basement of the Lucille Packard Children&#8217;s Hospital, where technicians pumped a radioactive solution through Henry&#8217;s system to check his kidney function. (The speed of the process, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}