{"id":4285,"date":"2018-08-22T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2018-08-22T01:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T05:07:48","slug":"wed-aug-22-2018-feels-like-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/08\/22\/wed-aug-22-2018-feels-like-the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wed. Aug. 22, 2018 &#8211; feels like the home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> More rain overnight, although there were some breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Mid week, and mom&#8217;s got a Dr appt this am, and her bridge club in the afternoon.  That will give me time to get some things done.  It&#8217;s starting to feel like I&#8217;ll be able to head home.  In a few weeks we&#8217;ll be back for the &#8220;Celebration of Life&#8221; and that will open the scabs again.  Maybe by then I&#8217;ll be better, but I&#8217;m still crashing into the loss a couple of times a day.  &#8220;Wracked&#8221; describes it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m putting this up on auto, in case I do get to sleep in a bit.  I&#8217;m certainly tired enough.<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>OH, and our old &#8216;friend&#8217; Ebola is back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DNC), South Africa, announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-21\/ebola-death-toll-climbs-55-number-infected-rise-congo-authorities-lay-plans-crisis\"> five new cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever<\/a> in the Mabalako hot zone of the North Kivu district, bringing the total number deaths to 55. Of the 69 currently infected with the disease, 13 are heath workers &#8211; just under 20%. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;This epidemic (in north Kivu) is going to bring a lot of surprises. It is not like the epidemic in the Equator that we have known already. This epidemic will bring with it a lot of surprises: the number of cases is going up and the number of infected zones is increasing so it will take a long time to control this epidemic and for the anti-virals which the companies will provide us, they are ready to increase the doses,&#8221; said Muyembe.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> More rain overnight, although there were some breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Mid week, and mom&#8217;s got a Dr appt this am, and her bridge club in the afternoon.  That will give me time to get some things done.  It&#8217;s starting to feel like I&#8217;ll be able to head home.  In a few weeks we&#8217;ll be back for the &#8220;Celebration of Life&#8221; and that will open the scabs again.  Maybe by then I&#8217;ll be better, but I&#8217;m still crashing into the loss a couple of times a day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2018\/08\/22\/wed-aug-22-2018-feels-like-the-home-stretch\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wed. Aug. 22, 2018 &#8211; feels like the home stretch &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}