{"id":3834,"date":"2010-06-11T00:37:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T06:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2010-06-11T00:37:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T06:37:55","slug":"today-is-a-day-i-want-to-take-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-family\/today-is-a-day-i-want-to-take-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is a day I want to take back"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 1 a.m. and I am on the public computer in the intensive care waiting room of Jackson Madison County General Hospital. My sister is one floor up in isolation, fighting for her life. That is a sentence I have never typed and never once imagined I’d have to.<\/p>\n

The doctors have been trying to piece together the puzzle for hours and hours now; I’ve been here since 2 p.m. and since then, no one has said definitely what the hell is happening inside my sister that had her in such pain she was talking shit about how morphine is worthless. <\/p>\n

I’m writing because I can’t sleep. I don’t have cell reception down here in the ICU cave and I just really fucking need to talk about this. With you, pixels. <\/p>\n

This<\/a> is what is killing her. Killing<\/i> her, can you believe that? That shit has completely wrecked her; the doctor said it’s a horrible horrible mess and the entire colon has to come out or she could die. It is 2010; I wasn’t aware that such things could just suddenly happen to those of us lucky enough to drink clean water and carry small bottles of Purell with us wherever we go. But my sister works in hospice and she has been caring for a man who has this bug and it is a vicious one and all signs point to it hitching a ride inside her and her nurse practitioner mistaking its symptoms for a UTI and prescribing her the antibiotics that killed the good bacteria and let the evil shit go to town. All it took was a few days to bring a robust, healthy woman down. <\/p>\n

And now we are taking it hour by hour and I just don’t even fucking know and I have to stop writing this now because I’m a blubbering fucking mess and there’s some 13-year-old kid on a laptop near me and I want someone to fix this problem but all we’ve done all day and night is wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 1 a.m. and I am on the public computer in the intensive care waiting room of Jackson Madison County General Hospital. My sister is one floor up in isolation, fighting for her life. That is a sentence I have never typed and never once imagined I’d have to. The doctors have been trying to piece together the puzzle for hours and hours now; I’ve been here since 2 p.m. and since then, no one… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-ZQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}