{"id":3170,"date":"2013-08-26T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2013-08-26T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:22:58","slug":"cancer-patient-finishes-ironman-while-on-chemo-makes-all-of-my-exercise-achievements-irrelevant-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/cancer-patient-finishes-ironman-while-on-chemo-makes-all-of-my-exercise-achievements-irrelevant-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Patient Finishes Ironman while on Chemo, makes all of my &#8220;exercise achievements&#8221; irrelevant forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, in case you needed a hard objective look at just how few excuses there really are in life, allow me to present this kickass girl:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January and half of her pancreas, stomach and gallbladder had to be removed. Statistics gave her only a 10-per-cent chance to live five more years.<\/li>\n<li>just finished a round of chemo in January, going in for another one in September<\/li>\n<li>(this one is just for me) is 50 years old, mother of two<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aaand then she proceeded to finish an Ironman triathlon on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 Not even her first Ironman, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>So, it seems that she has earned the long sought after title of &#8220;Stupendous Badass&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 In other news, I have wasted my life and am currently handing over any integrity\/honour\/courage I may have thought I had.\u00c2\u00a0 Jebus, people.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s a tough cookie, I tip my hat to her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2013\/08\/26\/ottawa-sindy-hooper-ironman-completes-race-chemotherapy-cancer.html?cmp=rss\">Check it out on the CBC.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in case you needed a hard objective look at just how few excuses there really are in life, allow me to present this kickass girl: She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January and half of her pancreas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/cancer-patient-finishes-ironman-while-on-chemo-makes-all-of-my-exercise-achievements-irrelevant-forever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-P8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}