{"id":106,"date":"2007-10-04T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2007-10-04T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:19:09","slug":"results-of-my-ultrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Results of my ultrasound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are here, thank you, this is what I found out this morning:<\/p>\n<p>1.)\u00a0 The polyp on my gallbladder has been determined to be a &#8220;cholesterol&#8221; polyp.\u00a0 It is of no harm and has not changed since the last ultrasound [they have one file] from like 3 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>2.) I still have a &#8220;fatty&#8221; liver and my doctor says that this is a result of my on-going cholesterol issue (most notably, my triglycerides are pretty high).\u00a0 After discussing a low-fat\/low-carb diet (hahahahaha), I accepted a medication path.\u00a0 The medication is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.tricortablets.com\/tricor\/consumer\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">TriCor<\/a>&#8221; and is apprently mainly for triglycerides&#8230; She gave me a 7 week supply and I am due back in 6 weeks for a new set of labs to determine how helpful that the medicine has been.\u00a0 She was impressed and happy that I was completely honest when discussing this.\u00a0 This IS my health and I don&#8217;t mess around with doctors.<\/p>\n<p>So, all of my bad dreams about gallbladder issues and cancer were just that&#8230; bad dreams.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t care to go on medication.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have to stop drinking alcohol (thank goodness) but I do need to cut down when I do and how much I consume when I do&#8230; this can also have financial benefits as well \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are here, thank you, this is what I found out this morning: 1.)\u00a0 The polyp on my gallbladder has been determined to be a &#8220;cholesterol&#8221; polyp.\u00a0 It is of no harm and has not changed since the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=106\">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":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}