{"id":24573,"date":"2020-09-30T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24573"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:01:42","slug":"update-craigs-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24573","title":{"rendered":"Update: Craig&#8217;s Medical Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z093020medicalemergencyupdate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I went to my doctor\/surgeon for a follow-up this morning.\u00a0 Originally, I was scheduled to go in tomorrow, but one of my incisions started to look infected so, he brought me in a day early.\u00a0 My vitals (blood pressure, temperature, oxygen levels) were all great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So was the incision.\u00a0 There were no signs of infection.\u00a0 The doctor said that what we thought was infection was just a material expected to be found in surgical recovery wounds.\u00a0 He removed the drainage tube from my side.\u00a0 I felt like I was in a magic act when he took it out &#8211; he kept pulling and pulling until a tube about 1 1\/2 &#8211; 2 feet long was removed from my side!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My doctor said that he has shared my charts, scans, etc. with a few other doctors and they agreed that it was lucky that I had not been sent home with meds.\u00a0 One of the doctors with 30 years experience said he would have definitely sent me home based on the evidence they were seeing.\u00a0 That could have proven fatal!\u00a0 Hopefully, this will help others in a similar circumstance in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The doctor said I am recovering at a great pace.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t have to see him again unless something develops.\u00a0 Fingers crossed that won&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 So this should be my last medical update.\u00a0 Thanks again for all the prayers and kind thoughts.\u00a0 I hope to be back to full interaction on the site and message boards soon.<\/p>\n<p>best,<\/p>\n<p>Craig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to my doctor\/surgeon for a follow-up this morning.\u00a0 Originally, I was scheduled to go in tomorrow, but one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24801,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24573\/revisions\/24801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}