{"id":63945,"date":"2026-07-28T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63945"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:39:42","slug":"change-of-venue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63945","title":{"rendered":"Change of Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to bed last night, in my own bed, Shadow followed, jumped up and snuggled in next to me. It had been almost a month. I gathered her up in my right arm and hugged her. Good to be home.<\/p>\n<p>Easier to sleep. Not going to the bathroom but using a urinal makes night time safer. Other modifications include a walker, less movement, a person listening while I shower. Unclear whether these will be permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Joe contacted Allianz, carrier for my Long Term Policy, and initiated a claim. When I&#8217;m able to use this policy, a lot of financial matters will resolve. It would, for example, pay the cost of assisted living. A big help. Otherwise assisted living costs could make my margin each month thin.<\/p>\n<p>Mark came up today. Tara and Ruth, too. Arjan came later. Melissa&#8217;s back, too. A full house with Mary and Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>Assisted living is in my future. Might be a month or so, maybe later. A less fraught, more relaxed way of life. Shadow and I chillin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to bed last night, in my own bed, Shadow followed, jumped up and snuggled in next to me. It had been almost a month. I gathered her up in my right arm and hugged her. Good to be home. Easier to sleep. Not going to the bathroom but using a urinal makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change of Venue<\/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":[65,127,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63945","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=63945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63946,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63945\/revisions\/63946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}