{"id":746,"date":"2007-12-13T09:14:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T09:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/our-thoughts-are-with-you\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T09:14:02","slug":"our-thoughts-are-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/our-thoughts-are-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Our thoughts are with you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/291488094\/\" title=\"We're thinking of you by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/122\/291488094_02b8293b3e.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"We're thinking of you\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mother of a good friend was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pancreatic_cancer\">(Wikipedia,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/types\/pancreatic\">National Cancer Institute<\/a>).  They don&#8217;t know much about her situation yet (she&#8217;s down at the Mayo Clinic undergoing tests), but pancreatic cancer generally has a very poor prognosis, so this is likely to be a tough time for them all.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with you.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/cancer\/\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/friends\/\" title=\"Friends\">Friends<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/health\/\" title=\"health\">health<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/22\/victory\/\" title=\"Victory!!! (22 Feb 07)\">Victory!!!<\/a> (4)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/11\/24\/the-pictures-im-not-taking\/\" title=\"The pictures I&#8217;m not taking (24 Nov 06)\">The pictures I&#8217;m not taking<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of a good friend was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (Wikipedia, National Cancer Institute). They don&#8217;t know much about her situation yet (she&#8217;s down at the Mayo Clinic undergoing tests), but pancreatic cancer generally has a very poor prognosis, so this is likely to be a tough time for them all. Our thoughts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/13\/our-thoughts-are-with-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our thoughts are with you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,877,163],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1934,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2015\/07\/26\/review-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer\/","url_meta":{"origin":746,"position":0},"title":"Review: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 Jul 15","format":false,"excerpt":"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee My rating: 5 of 5 stars A truly beautiful book about what is certainly a terrible and often terrifying collection of illnesses. 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