{"id":303,"date":"2011-07-28T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucebramson.com\/2011\/07\/28\/unstoned-at-m-y-o-b-3\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T00:45:07","slug":"unstoned-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"UNSTONED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 24, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operations are almost \u201cdrive-through\u201d these days. I was in the hospital yesterday from 10 am until 6 pm. Of that time, I was on the operating table less than an hour! The remainder was preparation (2 hours) and recovery (5 hours).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/con_gall_after.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Gallbladder Surgery<\/p>\n<p>Nothing but a big black hole where my gall bladder was. Of the operation itself, of course, I have no recollection: I was out cold! Now, I have some minor pain around my tummy: after all, my old bod has been assaulted rather violently. But the laparoscopic technique is so much less invasive than the old \u201ccarve \u2018em up\u201d approach that I should be back to what passes for normal (in my case) quite soon.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty of time to think through some more of my most recent story, Nature Boy. The second installment is mostly on the computer now: I just have to do a little polishing and convert it to ASCII per Nifty\u2019s rules and get it uploaded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for all your kind wishes, of which there were none at MYOB@brucebramson.com . Perhaps I have no readers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/signature1-300x149-150x149.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 2009 Operations are almost \u201cdrive-through\u201d these days. I was in the hospital yesterday from 10 am until 6 pm. Of that time, I was on the operating table less than an hour! The remainder was preparation (2 hours) and recovery (5 hours). After the Gallbladder Surgery Nothing but a big black hole where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}