{"id":375,"date":"2005-11-30T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/11\/30\/on-earth-we-your-children-invoke-your-sweet-name\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T20:14:35","slug":"on-earth-we-your-children-invoke-your-sweet-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/375","title":{"rendered":"On earth we your children invoke your sweet name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce is out of surgery, doing well, and will go directly back to the fifth-floor renal unit rather than into critical care, and that&#8217;s the best news of the day. The surgeon said he broke up and removed a pool of pus around the spleen the size of a &#8220;small dinner plate.&#8221; He irrigated the area and put in a &#8220;rubber-band drain.&#8221; When I asked him if he had to remove the spleen (something they warned might be necessary), he said, &#8220;No.&#8221; It looks to me like he tried to get the most benefit from the shortest procedure and smallest incision, since Bruce can&#8217;t handle much time under anaesthesia until he gets stronger. This postpones for another operation the intestinal reconnection and a minor pocket of infection around his nonfunctional, transplanted kidney, which could disappear on its own, if all goes well after today.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pam said she was told that Bruce is only the second patient in the history of the medical center to survive this long after such a severe case of pancreatitis.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce is out of surgery, doing well, and will go directly back to the fifth-floor renal unit rather than into critical care, and that&#8217;s the best news of the day. The surgeon said he broke up and removed a pool of pus around the spleen the size of a &#8220;small dinner plate.&#8221; He irrigated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,18,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}