{"id":4332,"date":"2010-06-06T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2010\/06\/06\/prognosis-positive"},"modified":"2017-10-06T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:13:11","slug":"prognosis-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=4332","title":{"rendered":"Prognosis&#8230;..positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw the cardiologist last Friday. He took the time to listen to everything that has been going on with me, which was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing my chart, he found nothing significantly wrong with my heart, and by just uttering those words, a tremendous relief washed over me. I do have a congenital heart defect, but at this time it isn&#8217;t anything to be worried about.<\/p>\n<p>So what exactly happened to me?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sleep Deprivation since November has been wearing down my body&#8217;s immune system.<\/li>\n<li>The continual back pain was causing stress and anxiety to build up, like a dam with too much water pressure, it&#8217;s going to reach a breaking point.<\/li>\n<li>Increased anxiety about the possibility of me not being well enough to go to Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So I had all of this going on. All I needed was a trigger to set off this time bomb. Enter <b>Ophidiophobia<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always hated snakes. There are definitely childhood reasons for this. But apparently, when I actually came across a real one a couple of weeks ago, it really did a number on me. It is funny how the body reacts.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that is the doctor&#8217;s theory. Knowing the possible cause to everything that happened is a huge relief. I feel much, much better. I type this after sleeping soundly for the first time in months.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for every one&#8217;s kind thoughts, prayer&#8217;s, and well-wishes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I saw the cardiologist last Friday. He took the time to listen to everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowqprcCw:productID":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7315],"tags":[589476293,589476282,173954],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","tag-589476293","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-my-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99I7P-17S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7293,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}