{"id":239,"date":"2010-03-02T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/playing-basketball-with-doctors\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:41:56","slug":"playing-basketball-with-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/playing-basketball-with-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing basketball with Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still play basketball usually 4 times a week, and it happens that some of the regular players are physicians.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I ran into someone&#8217;s elbow with my face (it really was my fault), and the edge of my glasses cut a long deep slit in my cheek.  Blood was running down my face as I ran to the bathroom to get paper towels.  <\/p>\n<p>After I came out, huddled around me in conference to determine the best way to proceed were three physicians :  an anesthesiologist, a gynecologist, and a general surgeon. <\/p>\n<p>They all had their opinion, but in the end I went with the surgeon who put in three stitches.  I&#8217;m going to have a black eye for a few days and probably a scar, but otherwise I&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had similar injuries before and usually just put on a butterfly and band aid, but this one seemed a little deeper, and it&#8217;s nice to have professional help when you need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still play basketball usually 4 times a week, and it happens that some of the regular players are physicians. This morning I ran into someone&#8217;s elbow with my face (it really was my fault), and the edge of my glasses cut a long deep slit in my cheek. Blood was running down my face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}