{"id":62,"date":"2005-02-01T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2005-02-01T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:57:00","slug":"first-in-the-bag-28-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"First in the Bag, 28 Days Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was my first infusion of Tysabri.  Reminds me of getting Solumedrol.  Maybe it&#8217;s because of the getting a drip from the same clinic.  Anyway, one other person was getting it and another was getting steroids and khemo (sp?).  I&#8217;m really tired of hearing people complain and feel sorry for themselves.  I&#8217;m sorry, but there is nothing you can do to our disease by crying about it.  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway it was an hour drip with an hour watchover.  I watched Regis and Kelly.  For the record, Kelly Rippa is one of the most perfectly beautiful woman I&#8217;ve seen.  Perfect teeth, perfect eyes, hair, etc.  Do you think she is 100% real?   If she is, good for her parents, nice work.<\/p>\n<p>As for insurance, they are approving people on an individual basis, not really a blanket coverage.<\/p>\n<p>As for the next appointment, I go back for round 2 in 28 days, so you actually get 13 infusions a year.  For the first month while its kicking in, I still have to take my Avonex.  Ah well, so 4 more shots till I dont have to take it anymore.  Fine with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning was my first infusion of Tysabri. Reminds me of getting Solumedrol. Maybe it&#8217;s because of the getting a drip from the same clinic. Anyway, one other person was getting it and another was getting steroids and khemo (sp?). I&#8217;m really tired of hearing people complain and feel sorry for themselves. I&#8217;m sorry, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-ms-and-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}