{"id":396,"date":"2008-01-16T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2008-01-16T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T22:20:43","slug":"still-breathingwith-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Still Breathing&#8230;with Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in the hospital and am likely to stay here at least until Friday,  They&#8217;re trying to decide what to do with me after that &#8212; send me home or to some rehab facility where they&#8217;ll try to teach me to use what little lung power I&#8217;ve got left more efficiently.  I&#8217;m hoping for some sort of compromise between the two, outpatient therapy or in-home visits from a respiratory specialist, something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tu is telling me not even to think about wheelchairs or scooters yet.  I need to be better-conditioned, not more fragile, to undergo the lung transplant. Fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a brief introduction to Marvel&#8217;s Howard the Duck Omnibus volume and sent it off  just moments ago to editor Mark Beazley.  It was late (naturally), so I can only hope it arrived at Marvel in time to be included in the book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on Doctor Fate, as well, of course, and hoping against hope that we&#8217;ll be able to avoid an awkward fill-in story in COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY.  Dan Didio and Joey Cavalieri have been very gracious so far and are trying their best to accommodate the situation. I&#8217;m very grateful to both of them.<\/p>\n<p>As for my health, well, I am improving, but slowly.  They&#8217;re about to wheel me back upstairs, so no time to go into details now. <\/p>\n<p>More to follow, eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, all. I&#8217;m still in the hospital and am likely to stay here at least until Friday, They&#8217;re trying to decide what to do with me after that &#8212; send me home or to some rehab facility where they&#8217;ll try to teach me to use what little lung power I&#8217;ve got left more efficiently. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-doctor-fate","category-wellness","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}