{"id":82,"date":"2017-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforiainh\/2017\/07\/13\/iain-is-still-rejecting-rejection\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:00:00","slug":"iain-is-still-rejecting-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/2017\/07\/13\/iain-is-still-rejecting-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Iain is still Rejecting Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we are happy to report Iain has thus far avoided acute rejection. &nbsp;On the whole his results are looking decent. I have to admit on Monday evening I was feeling a little concerned because I sat in the nuclear medicine scans where you can see blood flow and air flow in the lungs. &nbsp;It appeared that the lower left lobe was not moving air and blood. &nbsp;Not being trained in the medical arts, despite the last 6 months crash course, I naturally jumped to conclusions and had unspoken fears, although Iain did tell me to stop looking worried. &nbsp;Dr. Blatter put those to rest the next day saying that, in fact, Iain had bronchiectesis. &nbsp;Essentially, the bronchial tubes in the lower left lobe have been permanently damaged due to his having suffered numerous infections or inflamation in that area. &nbsp;It is part and parcel of being immunosuppressed in a way. &nbsp;The rest of his lungs look good and since he is feeling so much better than before the transplant, we are all content and already back home in Boulder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/231\/images\/resisting%20rejection.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we are happy to report Iain has thus far avoided acute rejection. &nbsp;On the whole his results are looking decent. I have to admit on Monday evening I was feeling a little concerned because I sat in the nuclear medicine scans where you can see blood flow and air flow in the lungs. &nbsp;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforiainh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}