{"id":38,"date":"2020-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforteamjoseph\/2020\/06\/12\/day-23-more-testing-results-and-exercise\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:00:00","slug":"day-23-more-testing-results-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/2020\/06\/12\/day-23-more-testing-results-and-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 23 &#8211; More Testing Results and Exercise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last 2 days back in Philidelphia for another heart cath, biopsy, and other heart testing.&nbsp; The good news it that ALL of the tests came back excellent &#8211; there are no signs of heart rejection at this point.&nbsp; The fluid they found around the heart is part of the heart integration process.&nbsp; I am SO very thankful that it is working well.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken over the responsibility for my meds and have been doing a good job of it so far.&nbsp; Before this, I would rely on my mom to remind me to take my pills.&nbsp; Most heart transplants that don&#8217;t go well are because of the patient missing their medications.&nbsp; Twice a day, EVERY day.<\/p>\n<p>I have also started exercising a bit to get back into shape.&nbsp; Below is a picture of me on our treadmill this morning.&nbsp; I was able to walk 1\/4 mile at a 3.8 mph pace &#8211; not very good, but that was all I could do.&nbsp; I will get stronger with time!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgCenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2132\/images\/20200612_073425_b.jpg\" alt=\"Treadmill\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last 2 days back in Philidelphia for another heart cath, biopsy, and other heart testing.&nbsp; The good news it that ALL of the tests came back excellent &#8211; there are no signs of heart rejection at this point.&nbsp; The fluid they found around the heart is part of the heart integration process.&nbsp; [&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-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjoseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}