{"id":153,"date":"2012-02-15T05:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-02-15T05:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T05:12:02","slug":"life-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/15\/life-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Life changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Mq14yyBH60\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This past Wednesday my two year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. At this age the chances of a cure are surprisingly high and the doctors have been extremely pleased with his progress so far. Still, it is an incredibly scary process which is draining in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p>I have been hesitant to write about this, but I now think it is necessary to do so. It doesn&#8217;t hurt to raise a little awareness about cancer. And writing this now will allow me to write more about it in the coming weeks, months and years as his treatment progresses.  I&#8217;m sure I will have lots to say on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Many people have asked how they can help. I would ask you to consider giving blood or (especially) platelets. A timely transfusion of platelets early on in the process may have saved my son&#8217;s life. If you are eligible and can find the time, please consider donating.<\/p>\n<p>Also: I don&#8217;t know what this will do to my schedule quite yet, but I am guessing that a lot of non-essential activities will fall by the wayside. Don&#8217;t expect much from me on Twitter or here for a little while. I also expect <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fakewillshortz\" title=\"@FakeWillShortz\">@FakeWillShortz<\/a> to slow down his rate of tweeting, though he&#8217;ll be taking on some new writers soon.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Wednesday my two year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. At this age the chances of a cure are surprisingly high and the doctors have been extremely pleased with his progress so far. Still, it is an incredibly scary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/15\/life-changes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}