{"id":460,"date":"2008-02-20T18:04:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T23:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-02-21T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T21:08:47","slug":"taking-care-of-yourself-sometimes-a-bit-too-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Taking care of yourself. Sometimes a bit too well&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a few posts down about having a vasectomy. After the surgery, Laureen pretty much ran the household while I stayed in bed with ice packs (actually bags of frozen peas) to decrease swelling and soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hassell recommended using ice only about 15 minutes per hour. I think I averaged closer to 45 minutes per hour.<\/p>\n<p>What I thought was a bruise turned out to be &#8220;necrotic&#8221; (i.e. dead) tissue in the scrotal area.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I managed to get frostbite. On my&#8230; uh&#8230; yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a few posts down about having a vasectomy. After the surgery, Laureen pretty much ran the household while I stayed in bed with ice packs (actually bags of frozen peas) to decrease swelling and soreness. Dr. Hassell recommended using ice only about 15 minutes per hour. I think I averaged closer to 45 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking care of yourself. Sometimes a bit too well&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-humor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}