{"id":806,"date":"2010-07-29T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-07-30T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T21:37:13","slug":"simple-causes-and-complicated-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Simple Causes and Complicated Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/x-ray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-807\" title=\"x-ray\" src=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/x-ray.jpg\" alt=\"x-ray of throat\" width=\"703\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/x-ray.jpg 703w, https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/x-ray-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I dined on smoked trout. Ended up with a mouth full of bones, most of which I pulled out. But one stuck.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got this bone lodged in my throat. I ate a ton of other food, solely intended to push the bone down. I felt like the old lady who swallowed a fly.<\/p>\n<p>And I went to bed with a lump of food in my belly and a bone laughing at me.<\/p>\n<p>Woke up and it&#8217;s still there. Or at least, I FEEL as though it&#8217;s there. It might be gone, leaving an irritating scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what you find if you look up how to get rid of a stuck fish bone? All kinds of people, from all over, who tell you to <em>go to the hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I saw my doctor. He took a look, saw nothing. Then he took an x-ray, as if that&#8217;s really going to show anything. That&#8217;s my actual neck up above, so let me know if you see anything.<\/p>\n<p>Next step: ENT for a scope. This is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/b702857123l0w5t0\/\">Death by fish bone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE: ENT didn&#8217;t need a scope. He just looked in my mouth, grabbed some really long tweezers, and pulled the thing out. All better now, thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I dined on smoked trout. Ended up with a mouth full of bones, most of which I pulled out. But one stuck. So I&#8217;ve got this bone lodged in my throat. I ate a ton of other food, solely intended to push the bone down. I felt like the old lady who swallowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}