{"id":131,"date":"2013-02-14T04:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-02-16T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T07:51:24","slug":"death-by-chemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Death by Chemo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130216-184938.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130216-184938.jpg\" alt=\"20130216-184938.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 20px;\" \/><\/a>Anyone who has researched chemo is probably aware that in the long term, if cancer does not kill you, chemo will. I always expected that if I was to die from chemo, it would be after many months or years of treatment. I did not expect to be killed in the first month.<\/p>\n<p>I had my baxter chemo bottle connected and was lying on the couch watching TV. I than noticed one of my kids staring at me in horror. For what ever reason, the baxter bottle came undone, and I found myself lying in a pool of blood. Even though my pants and shirt were soaked in blood, I simply did not notice. Lucky the kids did.<\/p>\n<p>I estimated that in the 15 minutes or so when the bottle came lose, I lost maybe 200ml of blood. I hate to imagine what the consequences would have been had this happened in the evening while asleep. Well ok, I imagine I would have bled to death.<\/p>\n<p>From that day, I always have the nurse securely tape all the chemo pump connections just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has researched chemo is probably aware that in the long term, if cancer does not kill you, chemo will. I always expected that if I was to die from chemo, it would be after many months or years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}