{"id":681,"date":"2008-01-29T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T07:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=681"},"modified":"2008-01-29T07:41:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T07:41:44","slug":"681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/01\/29\/681\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some praises to begin the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mom&#8217;s surgery went fine, and everything looks good.&nbsp; And she and my dad got to hang out all day yesterday together.&nbsp; They always like that.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m doing much better today.&nbsp; The chiropractor said my back was really messed up, and I have to go back tomorrow.&nbsp; While the abdomen pain isn&#8217;t entirely gone, the other various pains are.<\/li>\n<li>I got a great night&#8217;s sleep last night.&nbsp; Good sleep is such a blessing from God.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, yesterday wasn&#8217;t terribly exciting.&nbsp; I had classes (they were working in their peer groups) and a chiropractor&#8217;s appointment.&nbsp; I was home by 4:00 and spent much of the rest of the day\/evening sitting on the couch reading or watching television.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And to finish for today, I have a story, leading to a question:<\/p>\n<p>So the last time I went to the chiropractor (almost exactly a year ago), he gave me these supplements to clean out my gall bladder or something.&nbsp; Now I&#8217;m not a big believer in all-natural medicine.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not opposed to it, but I don&#8217;t buy either side entirely (that natural-types are quacks or that medical doctors are bad).&nbsp; So I got them, but I never used them, primarily because my husband read the ingredients.&nbsp; One of them was bovine prostate. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.xanga.com\/images\/shocked.gif\">&nbsp; We laughed about that for a long time, and after that, I just couldn&#8217;t take them!<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday, the doctor asked about the medication I just finished to kickstart a cycle and why I was taking it.&nbsp; So I told him the gist of my issues.&nbsp; And he has these supplements that he is sure will regulate my cycle and get me pregnant.&nbsp; Two other women he&#8217;s given it to have babies now.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what to think about it.&nbsp; I have trouble believing that he has some magic pill that is going to be able to do what my body has never done on its own.&nbsp; But my mom commented that she might just have to try that, with such a promise as that attached.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>My question is this: what is your take on natural medicines?&nbsp; Have you tried any that really worked?&nbsp; Or do you think they&#8217;re not worth using?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some praises to begin the day: My mom&#8217;s surgery went fine, and everything looks good.&nbsp; And she and my dad got to hang out all day yesterday together.&nbsp; They always like that. I&#8217;m doing much better today.&nbsp; The chiropractor said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/01\/29\/681\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}