{"id":63895,"date":"2026-06-24T07:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63895"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:11:31","slug":"two-days-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63895","title":{"rendered":"Two Days for One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bone scan day. First, radioactive tracer. Wait one hour. Place me on a metal slab. Whir a tracer sensitive plate around my body. Check for doneness.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Saltzman today. 9 am pickup. Down to Swedish. Kate stayed in it many times including her last. Not my favorite place.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Petscan.<\/p>\n<p>Nights here continue cool. Several Mule Deer yearlings visit. It&#8217;s summertime in the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>I notice a distinct decline in mental clarity as evening approaches. Pretty certain it&#8217;s the abiraterone. A nasty drug. Except, of course, for its cancer suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Our guy, Dopy, and his little friend, Sleazy, have tried many times to tell us what Iran has agreed to. Only the Iranians contradict them. Team America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday. 6\/24\/2026<\/p>\n<p>Bone scan yesterday. 3 hour wait after injection of tracer. Marilyn took us all the way back to Conifer while we waited. Above and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Bone scan tech one of the kindest folks I&#8217;ve encountered on this road. Makes a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>Weary. Again. All these appointments. Asking for rides. Always high stakes. Takes the stuffing right out of me.\u00a0Today. Petscan. Littleton. Again. Third this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth&#8217;s coming up today with David. She&#8217;s two weeks out from her ulna shortening surgery. First a splint, now four weeks in a cast. Will be good to see her.<\/p>\n<p>Weather beautiful. Colorado blue skies. Temps in low 70&#8217;s. Rocky Mountain high.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bone scan day. First, radioactive tracer. Wait one hour. Place me on a metal slab. Whir a tracer sensitive plate around my body. Check for doneness. Marilyn Saltzman today. 9 am pickup. Down to Swedish. Kate stayed in it many times including her last. Not my favorite place. Tomorrow, Petscan. Nights here continue cool. Several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Days for One<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63895","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=63895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63898,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63895\/revisions\/63898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}