{"id":575,"date":"2020-02-16T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-12-29T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:26:42","slug":"second-round-of-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2020\/02\/second-round-of-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Second round of tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I&#8217;m redoing the 24-hr creatinine clearance and it&#8217;s going much better this time. Tomorrow morning I get the famous 17-tube fasting blood draw &#8211; I have the order and it&#8217;s kind of interesting. Typical metabolic stuff (glucose, phosphorus, comprehensive metabolic panel, CBC, lipid panel, some others I had maybe vaguely heard of or not at all: &#8220;partial thromboplastin time,&#8221; &#8220;protime differential&#8221;), but then a ton of diseases and even parasites: HIV, TB, syphilis (!), cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr, hep B, hep C, trypanosoma, strongyloides, and West Nile. Sure hope none of those come back positive! Then Thursday afternoon I have a psych evaluation, chest X-ray, EKG, and renal ultrasound. It&#8217;s kind of cool to be so deep into tests when I&#8217;m perfectly healthy. On a totally irrational level it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m warding off the possibility of illness by voluntarily undergoing this stuff &#8211; like sharing love and getting as much as you give. I hope. It would be so awesome to be able to share health. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m redoing the 24-hr creatinine clearance and it&#8217;s going much better this time. Tomorrow morning I get the famous 17-tube fasting blood draw &#8211; I have the order and it&#8217;s kind of interesting. Typical metabolic stuff (glucose, phosphorus, comprehensive metabolic panel, CBC, lipid panel, some others I had maybe vaguely heard of or not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidney-donation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}