{"id":23,"date":"2014-03-19T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-12-21T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T01:45:44","slug":"the-scariest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The Scariest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-WO-300x300.png\" alt=\"MRI without contrast\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-WO-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-WO-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-WO.png 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRI without contrast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rachel went in for an MRI on the morning of the 18th. That afternoon I was at work, anxiously awaiting word from her neurologist about the results. The call came at 3, and I heard what are probably the scariest words of my life: &#8220;There&#8217;s something in her brain that shouldn&#8217;t be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-W-300x300.png\" alt=\"MRI with contrast\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-W-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-W-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MRI-W.png 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MRI with contrast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Cheyette immediately ordered a Contrast MRI for the next day. The purpose of the contrast was to determine whether the &#8230; thing &#8230; was getting blood flow. Blood flow would mean it was probably a malignant tumor.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the result of the Contrast MRI was that it was NOT receiving blood flow. In the picture, the darker color indicates that no contrast, and thus no blood, is getting to the &#8230; thing.<\/p>\n<p>We breathed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel went in for an MRI on the morning of the 18th. That afternoon I was at work, anxiously awaiting word from her neurologist about the results. The call came at 3, and I heard what are probably the scariest words of my life: &#8220;There&#8217;s something in her brain that shouldn&#8217;t be there.&#8221; Dr. Cheyette &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Scariest Day<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epilepsy.cliftfam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}