{"id":249,"date":"2017-05-30T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T04:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stepstostephanie.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-01-28T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:40:27","slug":"today-is-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Today is the day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 172 days since I booked my surgery we have arrived at the day! I can hardly believe it, it feels so un real, that day I have longed for for so long. I am 2 thirds of the way through my preparation treatments with one more element at 3 am then the taxi is collecting us at 5.15 with a view to arriving at the hospital around 5.45, I hour to get checked in and my surgery at 8.15 hopefully. There are three of us having surgery today but I am seemingly the only one using the recovery suites which is excellent really as we have the place to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The number of messages I have received today wishing me luck and sending love has really overwhelmed me, I have said it before but I feel so blessed to have such lovely friends and so many of you. If I get chance I&#8217;ll do another post before the surgery but if not thank you all for your support over the last 9 months, it has been a roller coaster of a ride and I still can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s happening, my dream of at last being the person I want to be and should have always been is coming true today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 172 days since I booked my surgery we have arrived at the day! I can hardly believe it, it feels so un real, that day I have longed for for so long. I am 2 thirds of the way through my preparation treatments with one more element at 3 am then the taxi is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/?p=249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today is the day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steps2stephanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}