{"id":50644,"date":"2019-05-30T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50644"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:55:09","slug":"butterflies-and-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50644","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies and Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beltane&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Cancer Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/beherenow1-eternal-time-space.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50645\" width=\"216\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/beherenow1-eternal-time-space.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/beherenow1-eternal-time-space-420x406.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking up at the paneled ceiling tiles from the ct scan table was a  tile made of plastic and full of butterflies. Leftside. On the right, another plastic ceiling tile of clouds. Between them the circular ct machine through which I was fed on a moving slide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I&#8217;d drunk a bottle of orangia like liquid 45 minutes before, but getting the iv in for the additional contrast material was painful. The gal who poked me twice didn&#8217;t have it down. She, in her words, tapped out and got a new wrestler to come and put it in. The new nurse was an old pro. She twhacked my elbow crease, looked, then put the iv in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll have a warm feeling in the back of your throat, then you&#8217;ll feel like you&#8217;re peeing, but you won&#8217;t be.&#8221; An interesting introduction. Sure enough though the back of my throat warmed up, a flush of heat that spread to my groin. The dye working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/egypt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50646\"\/><figcaption>Osiris and early ct <br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Take a breath and hold it.&#8221; That was the ct scanner. In case you didn&#8217;t get it there were little faces, one blowing air out, the other with plumped out cheeks. They lit up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Took no time at all. When will it be read? You&#8217;ll have results in a couple of days. Oh. It&#8217;s Thursday, so next week. Oh, well. Been waiting this long. Gilroy&#8217;s out of town until next week anyhow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the first try for the iv went in, it hurt. A lot. Lying there on an imaging machine, in a hospital, a serious illness underway, I cringed. Will I have to have lots of these? I got back to the moment, looked at the butterflies, then the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Cancer Moon Looking up at the paneled ceiling tiles from the ct scan table was a tile made of plastic and full of butterflies. Leftside. On the right, another plastic ceiling tile of clouds. Between them the circular ct machine through which I was fed on a moving slide. I&#8217;d drunk a bottle of orangia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Butterflies and Clouds<\/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":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50644","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=50644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50648,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50644\/revisions\/50648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}