{"id":1719,"date":"2024-11-04T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:01:47","slug":"i-am-a-c-diff-survivor-what-i-know-now-and-what-i-want-others-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"I am a C. diff survivor. What I know now and what I want others to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis must be cancer.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what I thought when I was hospitalized for a second time in two months. One month prior, I was hospitalized with diverticulitis, which was treated with strong intravenous antibiotics. Then I found myself back in the hospital. This time, it was worse than diverticulitis. I had never been so sick in my life. The abdominal pain was unbearable, and the diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting were continuous. It took three months, and multiple hospital stays before a test for a Clostridioides difficile (or C. diff) infection eventually came back positive. I had never heard of it,<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis must be cancer.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what I thought when I was hospitalized for a second time in two months. One month prior, I was hospitalized with diverticulitis, which was treated with strong intravenous antibiotics. Then I found myself back in the hospital. This time, it was worse than diverticulitis. I had never been so sick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}