{"id":1139,"date":"2016-02-26T11:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:24:55","slug":"count-your-lucky-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Count your lucky stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about recovery. How long does it take to recover, from medical issues, from breakups, from losing someone you love? Do you ever really recover? I&#8217;d believe you do. I recently had gum graft surgery. My gums are receding and there&#8217;s nothing I can do to stop it (blame braces and thin gums). Thus, I am twenty-five and having a procedure more common in those decades older than me. The recovery hasn&#8217;t been awful, but it hasn&#8217;t been ideal (is recovery ever ideal, though?). I feel like there&#8217;s gauze in my mouth at all times. It&#8217;s awkward and uncomfortable and hurts to smile. Plus, when I talk, my mouth barely opens and makes a sound that even I don&#8217;t recognize. Not my best looking time.<\/p>\n<p>However, this recovery has made me realize that even though I have medical issues that a twenty-five year old usually doesn&#8217;t have, I&#8217;m lucky that it&#8217;s not worse. It could be much, much worse. I won&#8217;t even go into that. So, as I sit on the couch watching endless dramas (watching a comedy requires smiling, which kills my mouth) and drink boring banana smoothies, I remember that my recovery is almost over (in total, about 4 weeks). And maybe I&#8217;ll have another problem sooner rather than later. But if I&#8217;m lucky enough to have to minimal medical issues in my life, I am lucky enough.<\/p>\n<p>So count your lucky stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about recovery. How long does it take to recover, from medical issues, from breakups, from losing someone you love? Do you ever really recover? I&#8217;d believe you do. I recently had gum graft surgery. My gums &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=1139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}