{"id":856,"date":"2013-12-18T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/?p=856"},"modified":"2015-02-18T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T07:20:08","slug":"121813-today-i-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/121813-today-i-realized\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/18\/13 &#8211; Today I realized."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 2 days I have realized &#8211;<br \/>\nI can wrap myself for a shower.<br \/>\nI can hang my mask on the outside on the shower curtain hook<br \/>\nI can turn the TV on myself if I don&#8217;t have a remote in hand. That&#8217;s how people did it in the old days. It still works.<br \/>\nI have had my bathroom curtain on the wrong side the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>But most importantly.<\/p>\n<p>I can figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling that I&#8217;m a rat in a cage sometimes, with so many doctors coming in and asking me how am I doing, am I feeling OK. I understand the nurses doing it, it&#8217;s part of their regimen, but the doctors\u2026you can&#8217;t really trust a doctor. They will ask you a question because they want to know something else, instead of just coming out and asking you what they want to know. If you step on a mine and blow your foot off, a doctor will lean over you say:<br \/>\n&#8220;Have you felt any tingling in your toes lately?&#8221;<br \/>\nWhereas the nurse will wrap and bandage the leg.<br \/>\nJust like the clock experiment. I can feel my brain connecting, and reconnecting. The human body and brain are absolutely amazing.<br \/>\nToday I learned that I can figure it out. I can solve any problem that I am waiting for someone else to solve. I can solve other people&#8217;s problems. I can, and I will.<\/p>\n<p>We all can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 2 days I have realized &#8211; I can wrap myself for a shower. I can hang my mask on the outside on the shower curtain hook I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/121813-today-i-realized\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;12\/18\/13 &#8211; Today I realized.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shakablog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakabrown.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}