{"id":8357,"date":"2024-08-20T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:29:27","slug":"cancer-followup-scan-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cancer-followup-scan-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Followup Scan: Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My third-oldest daughter relayed good news about my second-oldest yesterday (Monday, August 19, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A routine check last month showed an anomaly on number-two daughter&#8217;s neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might have been inconsequential, or might not have been. So she was scheduled with another scan. And we all started waiting for the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I said, good news. A CT scan showed no cancer in her neck, so she&#8217;s been set up with another routine check in \u2014 a few months, I think it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m happy, relieved, of course, about the results. What with one thing and another, this has been an interesting year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/radiation-therapy-done\/\">Radiation Therapy Done<\/a>&#8221; <br>(May 1, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cancer-concerns-prayer-and-my-family\/\">Cancer Concerns, Prayer, and My Family<\/a>&#8221; <br>(April 17, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/radiation-therapy-and-a-households-weekly-schedule\/\">Radiation Therapy, and a Household&#8217;s Weekly Schedule<\/a>&#8221; <br>(March 11, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cancer-in-the-family-update-operation-this-week\/\">Cancer in the Family, Update: Operation This Week<\/a>&#8221; <br>(February 6, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cancer-in-the-family\/\">Cancer in the Family<\/a>&#8221; <br>(January 27, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third-oldest daughter relayed good news about my second-oldest yesterday (Monday, August 19, 2024). A routine check last month showed an anomaly on number-two daughter&#8217;s neck. It might have been inconsequential, or might not have been. So she was scheduled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/cancer-followup-scan-good-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"A very brief update on a family health issue.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Cancer Followup Scan: Good News","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,192,209],"tags":[84,8],"class_list":["post-8357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stories","category-journal","category-series","tag-family","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2aN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8697,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}