{"id":31335,"date":"2015-06-11T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=31335"},"modified":"2015-06-11T07:36:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:36:16","slug":"a-yama-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=31335","title":{"rendered":"A Yamantaka Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Closing Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31336\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Yama_tibet-e1434029446371.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Yama_tibet-e1434029446371.jpg\" alt=\"Yama\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yamantaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So. Today is June 11th. I feel a small hole in the pit of my stomach. Not often you meet a day when your life is at stake, but this is one of those days for me. This afternoon we&#8217;ll find out the stage (severity &amp; aggressiveness) of my cancer. We&#8217;ll also decide on a course of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an interesting time since the initial news from the biopsy. Once I absorbed that information and read the Schwartz book on Surviving Prostate Cancer, I&#8217;ve let the matter go for the most part, at least at a feeling level. There was a bracket around the time between then, late May and now, mid-June. In that bracketed time no new information could be gained and no action could be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Now that bracketed time is over and the next steps, the real choices are just ahead. My confidence level is still high. Kate&#8217;s knowledge and support is\u00a0essential\u00a0as is encouragement\u00a0from friends and family. Dr. Eigner is competent and practiced, and, unusually, open to serious questions and probing. I&#8217;ve done my research, have a list of questions.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is at 2:30. More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Closing Moon So. Today is June 11th. I feel a small hole in the pit of my stomach. Not often you meet a day when your life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=31335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Yamantaka Moment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4316,14,65,3967,11,4315,3907,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-beyond-the-boundaries","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-family","category-feelings-2","category-friends","category-original-relation","category-reimagining-faith","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31339,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31335\/revisions\/31339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}