{"id":41085,"date":"2020-09-10T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41085"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T01:35:04","slug":"no-friday-fun-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/no-friday-fun-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"NO Friday Fun &#8211; Medical Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I tripped over the cat and took a tumble ending w\/ a face plant.<\/p>\n<p>My right knee was quite painful getting up, but I cleaned up my facial abrasions first.\u00a0 Then my sweatpants rubbing against my right knee became so painful I took a look.\u00a0 My R knee was HUGE.\u00a0 So I immediately began RICE treatment (Rest, Ice, Compression &amp; Elevations).<\/p>\n<p>I had my scheduled PT appointment this morning, so I had Rashad take a look.\u00a0 He&#8217;s concerned that there might be a Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) injury, and asked me to contact my PCP.<\/p>\n<p>I took pictures of my knee and abrasions, and sent them along w\/ a detailed history of the injury to my PCP via the Portal.\u00a0 (I LOVE having portals!)<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t heard back from her, but needing to keep my leg elevated has really cramped any computer work.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll be skipping this week.<\/p>\n<p>If I come across a brief\/short humorous piece, I&#8217;ll share it.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m going to be scarce for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I tripped over the cat and took a tumble ending w\/ a face plant. My right knee was quite painful getting up, but I cleaned up my facial abrasions first.\u00a0 Then my sweatpants rubbing against my right knee became so painful I took a look.\u00a0 My R knee was HUGE.\u00a0 So I immediately began <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/no-friday-fun-medical-leave\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/41085","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}