{"id":26203,"date":"2019-02-20T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26203"},"modified":"2019-02-28T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:56:07","slug":"penal-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/penal-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"PENAL BURNING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wrote<\/strong> <\/span>\u201cpenal burning\u201d on a canister of Cleveland Clinic pills. I should have written \u201cpenile burning” but my spelling skills — which are usually pretty good — were down. I was in the recovery room at the Clinic.<\/p>\n

\"caducious\"I like medical stories. Here’s mine: I went into the hospital for bladder stones and to “open a channel in your prostate,” to quote the urologist. The surgeon used a laser up my urethra for about 2 \u00bd hours in the OR and then sent me to the recovery room, which in my case was a bed with a curtain around it. It wasn\u2019t a bad room. It was like business class on an airplane, I suspect — a fully reclining bed, nurse\/attendant on-call, decent food, and chatter from neighbors all night.<\/p>\n

The “penile<\/strong><\/span> burning” Rx came the next day, when I was discharged. The doctor — a resident — told a nurse about it. I overheard them discussing “penile burning” outside my cordoned area. “Penile burning\u201d caught my attention.\u00a0The resident should have told me directly about “penile burning.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote \u201cpenal burning\u201d on a canister of Cleveland Clinic pills. I should have written \u201cpenile burning” but my spelling skills — which are usually pretty good — were down. I was in the recovery room at the Clinic. I like medical stories. Here’s mine: I went into the hospital for bladder stones and to […]<\/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-26203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26203"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26225,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26203\/revisions\/26225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}