{"id":464,"date":"2008-03-27T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/on-positive-note\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:24:11","slug":"on-positive-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/on-positive-note\/","title":{"rendered":"On a Positive Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/celesteh\/2366412067\/\" title=\"Injected Orange by celesteh, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2418\/2366412067_3b7d038410_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"[Injected Orange]\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI just gave myself another injection and it actually went quite alright.  I practiced with an orange first.  Also, having a prescription in hand for the next shot was extremely reassuring &#8211; if I screw it completely up, I&#8217;m not SOL.  And when I talk to the doctor about how much I hated needles, it was kind of ok.  I have an idea that if I was adequately dedicated, I would just ignore all my needle worries and jump into it with no hesitation.  Of course, I know intellectually that this is silly.  She just said, &#8220;oh, we&#8217;ll have to find another way for you to take it, then.&#8221; and that was it.<\/p>\n<p>And somehow the badness of last time was calming instead of unnerving.  &#8220;Well, at least I&#8217;m not filming.  When I get this done, I can go make a soundtrack for that film.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo a positive note instead of doom and gloom.  I wish, though, that I&#8217;d been slightly less focussed on the task at hand.  That orange didn&#8217;t have a damn bit of booze in it. For shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just gave myself another injection and it actually went quite alright. I practiced with an orange first. Also, having a prescription in hand for the next shot was extremely reassuring &#8211; if I screw it completely up, I&#8217;m not SOL. And when I talk to the doctor about how much I hated needles, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/on-positive-note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On a Positive Note<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,177],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}