{"id":12975,"date":"2014-06-10T00:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12975"},"modified":"2014-06-10T00:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:08:30","slug":"personal-update6102014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/personal-update6102014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update&ndash;6\/10\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow after what has been a thoroughly frustrating, wasted day.&#160; The TriMet LIFT bus picked me up at 8:50 AM and dropped me at the doctor\u2019s office at 10:00 AM for my 11:00 appointment.&#160; The doctor\u2019s assistant came and got me and measured my resting blood O<sub>2<\/sub> level at 95%.&#160; Then I climbed a flight of stairs twice, without O<sub>2<\/sub>, and she measured it at 88%.&#160; I climbed them again with 0<sub>2<\/sub>, and she measured it again at 93%.&#160; I was done at 11:15, and all we learned is what we already knew.&#160; The culprit is not the insurance company, but the medical equipment company that the insurance company uses exclusively.&#160; They notified my doctor\u2019s office late on 5\/30, so her staff did not see the fax until 6\/2.&#160; My doctor&#8217;s assistant called them to ask if they could do it during my already scheduled appointment on 7\/14, and explained that, due to mobility and transit issues, an extra trip would be a hardship for me.&#160; They said no.&#160; It HAD to be done right away.&#160; I know the name of the person who made that demand, and I have a call in to the manager of her department.&#160; When I get done, they both may be candidates for rectal replacement.&#160; The TriMet LIFT bus picked me up at 1:20 PM and, after several side trips, dropped me off at 3:45 PM.&#160; Needless to say, it\u2019s too late to begin research.&#160; Day 50.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:10 (average 5:46).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-06-10-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">O<sub>2<\/sub> can be a real pain!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/0610TCO2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0610TCO2\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0610TCO2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/0610TCO2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow after what has been a thoroughly frustrating, wasted day.&#160; The TriMet LIFT bus picked me up at 8:50 AM and dropped me at the doctor\u2019s office at 10:00 AM for my 11:00 appointment.&#160; The doctor\u2019s assistant came and got me and measured my resting blood O2 level at 95%.&#160; Then I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/personal-update6102014\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}