{"id":26134,"date":"2019-01-09T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26134"},"modified":"2019-01-09T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:34:02","slug":"one-thing-leads-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/one-thing-leads-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Landscaping was<\/strong><\/span> my thing for years. I had all the gear. I loved the hum, the buzz, and the hanging out at lunch with the other guys.<\/p>\n<p>Winters were bad; snowplowing sucked. I hit parked cars and had to get up early. Real early.<\/p>\n<p>So I went into medicine. This was back when Case Western was taking older, nontraditional students. It didn&#8217;t hurt I&#8217;m a woman. I transferred my skills. Nothing much different about cutting grass and cutting prostates. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/caducious-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"caducious\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/caducious-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/caducious.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did I tell you I never got married, but nevertheless raised the three kids single-handedly. I lived cheaply for years prior to med school and kids. Like I used to sleep in my car a lot. One day I got a really numb arm from sleeping in my car. I thought I had a stroke, so I went to the ER and they gave me a CAT scan and tested everything. That\u2019s what got me interested in medicine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Interesting how<\/strong><\/span> one thing leads to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landscaping was my thing for years. I had all the gear. I loved the hum, the buzz, and the hanging out at lunch with the other guys. Winters were bad; snowplowing sucked. I hit parked cars and had to get up early. Real early. So I went into medicine. This was back when Case Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26144,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134\/revisions\/26144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}