September 28, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David reported to the hospital to undergo the procedure to implant a port in his chest. The procedure went fine and David was ready to go home shortly after lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PORTAL (-d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In hindsight, albeit unbeknown to me at the time, watching the first DUNE movie about a month or so prior to finding out that I would need something called a port in my blood system may have been one of the worst decisions I\u2019ve ever made. That said, I was reasonably well read up on the procedure and a little bit nervous about how directly this was connected to me. However, not only did I have the same excellent care I\u2019ve had throughout this, somehow I ended up with a team of super cool \u201chang-loose dude\u201d surgeon and nurse that made it almost surreal. They showed me everything, convinced me now to worry and that I was in excellent hands, and I even remember having this great conversation about something right before I went under for surgery. Moments later I popped back awake and everything was fine. They re-reassured me it was ok, and I was on my way. Looking back it may be the coolest surgical experience I\u2019ve had so far. To be fair, to this day, it does still feel a little weird to say and know that there\u2019s something called a port directly connected to me though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 28, 2023 David reported to the hospital to undergo the procedure to implant a port in his chest. The procedure went fine and David was ready to go home shortly after lunch. PORTAL (-d) In hindsight, albeit unbeknown to me at the time, watching the first DUNE movie about a month or so prior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}