{"id":407,"date":"2011-03-15T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-03-15T07:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:00:59","slug":"two-out-of-three-aint-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Two out of three ain&#8217;t bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is me.\u00a0 Rob.\u00a0 Reporting live from my Boston abode.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clean.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got\u00a0a freaky washer\/dryer combo.<\/p>\n<p>So onto the topic of the morning.\u00a0 As my treatments progress, I say that two outta three ain&#8217;t bad.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the breakdown for those keeping score:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mind &#8211; Very strong.\u00a0 I feel mentally quite good.\u00a0 Perhaps better than I have in many years.\u00a0 I look forward, with great anticipation, as to what the next chapter for the Bromee&#8217;s will be.\u00a0 The future is unknown, and\u00a0I find that very exciting.<\/li>\n<li>Spirit &#8211; Since all this has started, it has significantly increased my quest for knowledge beyond the living from one moment to the next.\u00a0 I have found that simple guided meditation has made me sleep better, made me rise better, and take a different look at the things that happen throughout the day.\u00a0 It all seems to come more &#8220;in stride&#8221;.\u00a0 I am more comfortable in my skin than I have ever been.<\/li>\n<li>Body &#8211; I left this to last&#8230;because it the one that is bad.\u00a0 Or how about we say &#8220;not so great&#8221; instead.\u00a0 Bad is too strong of a word for me.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m tired.\u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling not well.\u00a0 I wake every morning feeling like I have a hangover.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s a tragedy considering one of the many reasons I gave up alcohol is that I never wanted to feel that way again.\u00a0 But now it&#8217;s a daily thing that I can count on.\u00a0 Not a 5 star hangover, just the kind that you know if you&#8217;re not careful it could go from tolerable to terrible.\u00a0 Fortunately my headaches have been relieved by a tiny little pill twice a day.\u00a0 So thats good.\u00a0 With all the radiation and the chemo poison flowing through my veins it a wonder I don&#8217;t feel ten times as bad.\u00a0 So all in all I am thankful that this is how it&#8217;s is.\u00a0 I can tolerate this and still keep a smile on my face and big inhales of life going strong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the news as it is.\u00a0 This is me.\u00a0 Rob.\u00a0 Signing off for another morning of proton radiation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Namaste,<\/p>\n<p>Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me.\u00a0 Rob.\u00a0 Reporting live from my Boston abode.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clean.\u00a0 It&#8217;s got\u00a0a freaky washer\/dryer combo. So onto the topic of the morning.\u00a0 As my treatments progress, I say that two outta three ain&#8217;t bad.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the breakdown for those keeping score: Mind &#8211; Very strong.\u00a0 I feel mentally quite good.\u00a0 Perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}