{"id":9434,"date":"2010-01-06T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T07:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2010-01-06T00:50:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T07:50:56","slug":"fecke-health-update-with-a-greeting-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9434","title":{"rendered":"Fecke Health Update &#8212; with a greeting card!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/?p=6088\">Over on his home blog<\/a>, Jeff has some good news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Basically, everything is going as well as I could hope so far. Yes, surgery is painful and not fun, but I knew that going in, and it\u2019s not debilitating. And I got Vicodin, just like Vikings quarterback Brett Favre used to be addicted to, so that\u2019s cool. The surgery itself appears to have done exactly what it was supposed to with no complications, so that\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p>The better news, however, is that the CT scan that they did on me last week appears to be clear. That doesn\u2019t mean the cancer hasn\u2019t spread, but there\u2019s only about a 15% chance that it has, and that means I can likely avoid chemotherapy, at least at first. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So yay!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, David Ellis Dickerson of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidellisdickerson.com\/category\/greeting-card-emergency\/\">Greeting Card Emergency<\/a>&#8221; fame &#8212; whose new book, House of Cards, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/28\/book-review-house-of-cards-by-david-ellis-dickerson\/\">was recently reviewed on &#8220;Alas&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; provides this video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/OWc94t1nMKI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/OWc94t1nMKI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/davidellisdickerson.com\/2010\/01\/greeting-card-emergency-20-three-cards-for-web-celebs-in-need\/\">David&#8217;s post<\/a> accompanying the video. Thanks, David!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on his home blog, Jeff has some good news: Basically, everything is going as well as I could hope so far. Yes, surgery is painful and not fun, but I knew that going in, and it\u2019s not debilitating. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}