{"id":1780,"date":"2011-05-06T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2011-05-06T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T14:40:36","slug":"for-the-fun-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/for-the-fun-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Fun of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon just posted a status on Facebook that said something about Geli heading into the hospital for her second dose of chemo and the other kids having today off school (<em>it&#8217;s a Professional Day<\/em>) and then he said something about us all going into town together &#8220;for the fun of it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Which, if you&#8217;ve ever taken 5 kids ranging from 14 to >1 anywhere, you know that the &#8220;fun&#8221; that is spoken of is less &#8220;fun&#8221; and more &#8220;stressful&#8221; than anything.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if you are going anywhere, Children&#8217;s Hospital is a good place to go, in case anything goes wrong or&#8230;you know, for kids to be able to just be kids?<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;m expecting anything to go wrong, but wrangling children is almost as fun as I&#8217;ve heard wrangling sheep is, and if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that we need to get passports in order to be able to even apply for Geli&#8217;s Wish, then we&#8217;d be staying home today.<\/p>\n<p>In the Wish package, we were given a coupon for Blacks to get Passport photo&#8217;s taken and the closest (<em>or most convenient to us<\/em>) Blacks Photography is&#8230;&#8230;..in Metrotown.  Sweet!<\/p>\n<p>So, we wake up this morning and prepare for chemo and pictures&#8230;.how fun!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be hitting the hospital first and hopefully we&#8217;ll be in and out of there within an hour.  We do have to wait for Geli to get a blood count so that we know if she needs a transfusion or not, but I&#8217;m not guessing that it&#8217;s necessary.  It usually isn&#8217;t after only the first week of chemo&#8230;.but as every week goes by, the likelihood of her counts going too low increases&#8230;..the actual chemo doses should only take less then 10 minutes&#8230;it&#8217;s the waiting&#8230;..oh the joys of waiting&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>And so today&#8230;..we head in and I&#8217;m really hoping that it&#8217;s more fun than it should be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon just posted a status on Facebook that said something about Geli heading into the hospital for her second dose of chemo and the other kids having today off school (it&#8217;s a Professional Day) and then he said something about us all going into town together &#8220;for the fun of it&#8221;. Which, if you&#8217;ve ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/for-the-fun-of-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For the Fun of it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,12,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-sucks","category-family","category-gelica","category-kids"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}