{"id":1272,"date":"2012-06-10T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2012-06-10T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:26:51","slug":"look-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2012\/06\/10\/look-at-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2012\/06\/ruth-brendle-gr4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1285\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2012\/06\/ruth-brendle-gr4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cLook at me!\u00a0 Look at me!\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve been sounding like a little kid lately.\u00a0 Why all this giddy attention-getting?\u00a0 Because after months and even years of not having much mobility in my left arm, I can use it again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">The orthopedic doctor told me on Thursday that the good news is that we\u2019ve nailed the diagnosis \u2013 adhesive capsulitis in the shoulder; the bad news is that it takes 18 months or longer to heal.\u00a0 \u00a0An injection a month ago in the joint gave me relief enough to start physical therapy, and I\u2019ve been amazed at the progress.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">So I really am like a little kid\u2026 I keep saying to Dave, \u201cLook, watch this,\u201d as I do something that I haven\u2019t been able to do for months.\u00a0 Like smash a clove of garlic, or use my left am to steady dishes as I put them in the cupboard, or drive with both hands on the steering wheel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Now to just have the discipline to do the physical therapy every day\u2026 for 18 months\u2026 and beyond!!!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLook at me!\u00a0 Look at me!\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve been sounding like a little kid lately.\u00a0 Why all this giddy attention-getting?\u00a0 Because after months and even years of not having much mobility in my left arm, I can use it again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The orthopedic doctor told me on Thursday that the good news is that we\u2019ve nailed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ruth","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}