{"id":1405,"date":"2017-12-04T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journey.jayctheriot.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2017-12-04T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:30:10","slug":"2017-december-4-thankful-for-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"2017 December 4, Thankful For Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"28qqd\" data-offset-key=\"l6co-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"l6co-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"l6co-0-0\">For the first time in a while I was thankful to be on disability. I did some bad things to my body Saturday night\/Sunday Morning and am recovering. I looked at my calendar and saw it was empty except for a doctor visit on Friday and I felt relieved. Had I been working, I would have had to call in sick all this week.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">I had been having spasms on Saturday. So I took my muscle relaxer to stop them.\u00a0 I woke up in the middle of the night, took off my CPAP and went to the restroom.\u00a0 When I returned, I didn&#8217;t put my CPAP back on and fell back asleep.\u00a0 Not long after, I aspirated bile from my stomach.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">In a panic, I ran to the bathroom next to my room. Yes, I said ran. When I regained cohesiveness, I realized I wasn&#8217;t vomiting, I couldn&#8217;t breath.\u00a0 In my successful efforts to clear my lungs, I somehow managed to pull almost every muscle in my upper torso and arms.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">It hurt to touch anything yesterday.\u00a0 Today, it&#8217;s not so bad.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m typing this today and not yesterday.\u00a0 I did manage to type some things yesterday, but it was on my laptop where I could rest my arms while typing.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">It is weird.\u00a0 For the first time, my upper body is worse off than my lower.\u00a0 I can walk fine as the muscle relaxers did their job, but, I&#8217;m having trouble drinking coffee.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m walking, just not touching anything. It&#8217;s almost comical.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">God has blessed me with an crazy disease that makes no sense.\u00a0 In the midst of pain, I find there is comedy.\u00a0 How my abilities fade in and out so quickly, remains an enigma.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">I am convinced that my symptoms are shaping out to be as similar to MS as they can be, although the tests deny MS.\u00a0 The point is moot as there are treatments for MS, which I am doing, but no cure.\u00a0 It just means I will live out this internal comedy for the remainder of my years.\u00a0 I just wish the disease would back off and give my family and me peace for a while.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">God Bless,<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\">Jay C. Theriot aka Twitch<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"a0aad-0-0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a while I was thankful to be on disability. I did some bad things to my body Saturday night\/Sunday Morning and am recovering. I looked at my calendar and saw it was empty except for a doctor visit on Friday and I felt relieved. Had I been working, I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,50,53,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coordination","category-limitations","category-pulled-muscles","category-spasms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}