{"id":4733,"date":"2024-09-28T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T10:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2024-09-28T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T10:43:39","slug":"i-dont-want-to-die-in-a-hospital-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/i-dont-want-to-die-in-a-hospital-room\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t want to die in a hospital room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2023, I had a stroke. I was trapped in a hospital room for days with nothing to do.  I had lost my freedom because of my health.  I am 100% recovered. Thank God and I had a realization.  You cannot choose when you die nor how, but you can choose where you will die.  This poem popped in my head.  One year later, it is still in my head.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:20px;background-color:beige;padding:20px;width:400px;\">\nThey can&#8217;t tell you when but it might be soon.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to die in a hospital room.<br \/>\nMister take these chains off of me<br \/>\nI want to stand up and be free.<br \/>\nStroke Stroke Stroke calling my name<br \/>\nStroke Stroke Stroke will I ever be the same?<\/p>\n<p>The doctor&#8217;s smile seemed somewhat smug<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want any creepy drugs<br \/>\nThat spike protein is clogging up my veins<br \/>\nA little lump lodged in my brain<br \/>\nI got a<br \/>\nStroke Stroke Stroke calling my name<br \/>\nStroke Stroke Stroke will I ever be the same?<\/p>\n<p>A bad vaccine was quite the surprise<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to hear any more lies<br \/>\nKeep on keeping on I must<br \/>\nOnly got God left to trust<br \/>\nStroke stroke stroke calling my name<br \/>\nStroke stroke stroke will I ever be the same?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the smell of death and a hint of doom<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to die in a hospital room.<br \/>\nMister let me sign that AMA<br \/>\nI want to go outside and enjoy this day.<br \/>\nStroke stroke stroke calling my name<br \/>\nStroke stroke stroke will I ever be the same?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2023, I had a stroke. I was trapped in a hospital room for days with nothing to do. I had lost my freedom because of my health. I am 100% recovered. Thank God and I had a realization. You cannot choose when you die nor how, but you can choose where you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}