{"id":225,"date":"2009-11-18T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2009-11-18T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:55:00","slug":"if-i-only-had-a-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"If I Only Had a Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Time is very tight this morning so a short blog it will be.<\/p>\n<p>An article in the Saturday Globe has me now feeling wonder, awe, amazement and all good words that mean &#8220;holy moly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brain surgeons no longer have to saw open a human skull to perform certain kinds of surgery. They can now feed an instrument, called a micro-catheter, which is about the thickness of a single human hair, <i>through a blood vessel<\/i> to seal off an aneurysm and save a patient&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is astonishing! Not only am I stunned by the neurologist&#8217;s ability to perform this feat of medical wizardry but by the person who actually invented and built such a device. <\/p>\n<p>Inspiring Message for the Day: We can do anything! We really can. If we refuse our limitations and let our imaginations take us higher there is no telling what can happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers, Time is very tight this morning so a short blog it will be. An article in the Saturday Globe has me now feeling wonder, awe, amazement and all good words that mean &#8220;holy moly&#8221;. Brain surgeons no longer have to saw open a human skull to perform certain kinds of surgery. They can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,5,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aneurysm","category-inspiration","category-motivation","category-neurology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}