{"id":8390,"date":"2025-11-12T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:26:09","slug":"minor-interruption-for-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/minor-interruption-for-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Interruption for Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Part the Second of the mission debrief is put on hold for tonight as I have to go to the E.R.  It was pointed out to me by a fren who saw my picture(s) and told me I got some serious Edema going on and since my last Liver Panel (4 weeks ago) was completely normal&#8230; something isn&#8217;t right&#8230;<br><br>In fact the Docs at the VA said it was the best one I had done in like a year or three&#8230; like EVERYTHING either perfect or even low.  So I don&#8217;t -think- it&#8217;s the booze&#8230;  Also I don&#8217;t have ANY symptoms that are associated with that outside of MASSIVE edema\/water retention&#8230;<br><br>Another point is my weight went from 320 to about 360 over the past 2-2.5 weeks.  In fact I went from 357 last night to 360 overnight and yes, I did recalibrate the scale BOTH times as I had trouble with ALL the readouts.<br><br>That&#8217;s&#8230;.concerning&#8230;  <br><br>I mean I DO love me some beer and pizza but that&#8217;s a stretch, even for my garbage gut&#8230;.<br><br>And when earlier Doc Samizdat called me just to yakk it up, when I told\/asked him, he told me to make sure I go <strong>tonight<\/strong><br><br>So I&#8217;ll update later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/coffee-table-toe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/coffee-table-toe.jpg 720w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/coffee-table-toe-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Part the Second of the mission debrief is put on hold for tonight as I have to go to the E.R. It was pointed out to me by a fren who saw my picture(s) and told me I got some serious Edema going on and since my last Liver Panel (4 weeks ago) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/minor-interruption-for-tonight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minor Interruption for Tonight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}