{"id":3541,"date":"2013-11-24T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2013-11-24T13:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:08:21","slug":"be-prepared-to-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/be-prepared-to-bleed\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Prepared to Bleed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Part of you pours out of me<\/em><em>\u00a0in these lines from time to time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My husband Ned just had part of his thyroid removed &#8212; a benign nodule had swollen up there &#8212; and<a href=\"http:\/\/nedbatchelder.com\/blog\/201311\/hemithyroidectomy.html\"> he has written very eloquently about it<\/a>. This was the first kind of surgery we have experienced as a couple (together for 30 + years) and even though the cutting and recovery happened to him, we were steeped in the fear and waiting together. We&#8217;ve been through autism and other woes, and I&#8217;m happy to the depths of my soul that we seem to be stronger than ever. I&#8217;m beyond grateful to God and fate and the randomness of the Universe that put me together with this wonderful, unique man; that he is alive and I can be with him for more time. I was head over heels in love with him way back at Penn in 1981, and in 2013 I still am, even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of you pours out of me\u00a0in these lines from time to time. My husband Ned just had part of his thyroid removed &#8212; a benign nodule had swollen up there &#8212; and he has written very eloquently about it. This was the first kind of surgery we have experienced as a couple (together for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-V7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}