{"id":2467,"date":"2015-02-11T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2015-02-11T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:18:59","slug":"birthday-wishes-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2015\/02\/11\/birthday-wishes-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Wishes, Granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nei.nih.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2475\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015.02.11.a.gif\" alt=\"2015.02.11.a\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015.02.11.b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2476\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015.02.11.b-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"2015.02.11.b\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>I had wished to spend my birthday quietly at home this year. But as fate would have it, it was my call week and I spent Friday night removing a piece of metal from the back of a patient&#8217;s eye. Fortunately, she did surprisingly well considering the injury, and I have been satisfied with the growth of my clinical practice. On the other hand, I had to put much of my lab work on hold this week while I tried desperately to submit my <a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/pa-files\/PA-14-046.html\">K08<\/a> grant on time. This was my first experience submitting an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\">NIH<\/a> grant, and I had not expected the paperwork to be so overwhelming. Aside from dotting all the i&#8217;s and crossing all the t&#8217;s, I had to coordinate a team of mentors, consultants, and referees to have their letters of reference submitted electronically in time. Even my own submission bounced back 3 different times from formatting errors before I was finally able to get it in today &#8211; one day before the due date. We celebrated over <a href=\"http:\/\/sachappygarden.com\/\">dim sum<\/a> with Melody&#8217;s cousin, and look forward to my parents driving up from San Jose for their first visit to the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had wished to spend my birthday quietly at home this year. But as fate would have it, it was my call week and I spent Friday night removing a piece of metal from the back of a patient&#8217;s eye. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2015\/02\/11\/birthday-wishes-granted\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}