{"id":3414,"date":"2009-02-23T23:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T06:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:40:04","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/02\/23\/the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so so tired, so this will be a brief post.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the surgeon today. All my questions were answered adequately. I can schedule the surgery any time, but the longer I wait (or the more it hurts) to greater the damage, and if my knee suddenly locks I&#8217;ll need immediate surgery. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a three-hour procedure under general anesthesia. I&#8217;ll be on crutches for anywhere from 4-14 days, and will need to be careful with bending and stress up to six weeks after surgery. He said that it will take six months after the surgery for full recovery. I&#8217;ll need to have physical therapy once or twice a week for about six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>So, we now need to figure out when to schedule this. I obviously will need help, as I can&#8217;t get up and down stairs on crutches while holding Bean, and I can&#8217;t really shepherd her well while using them either. My sister-in-law is coming soon, Husband&#8217;s mother is willing to come help, and Husband can take time off. So we&#8217;ll figure out a plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so so tired, so this will be a brief post. I saw the surgeon today. All my questions were answered adequately. I can schedule the surgery any time, but the longer I wait (or the more it hurts) to greater the damage, and if my knee suddenly locks I&#8217;ll need immediate surgery. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13874,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/13874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}