{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f15fe6aedb1bd6d15f027df/6abca9d04b9baaeac0d65588?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The One Where I Trained for Major Surgery","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f15fe6aedb1bd6d15f027df/1790748982095-00fefb41-7aab-499e-9bc6-c31e018fa74b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Strange things go on in my head. I may be thinking about folding fitted sheets, whether fish get thirsty and people who stop immediately inside shop doorways. </p><p><br></p><p>This week, however, we&#39;re back to the cancer story. </p><p><br></p><p>The procedures had worked. My liver was growing. Which meant there was just one small thing left to do before somebody removed most of it. </p><p><br></p><p>Prepare for major surgery. </p><p><br></p><p>Apparently this involved an 800-calorie-a-day diet, lung exercises, running, HIIT, IKEA meatballs, getting up at 4:30 in the morning and treating major surgery preparation with roughly the same energy other people might bring to training for an event. </p><p><br></p><p>I was told I needed to be as fit and healthy as possible. </p><p><br></p><p>Yeah... we&#39;ll see about that. </p><p><br></p><p>Here is PippaD telling you what happened to her. Unfortunately for everyone involved, PippaD was still PippaD while it was happening. </p><p><br></p><p>You may be enticed, you may be enthralled or you may just be disappointed, but it&#39;ll only take you about ten minutes to find out! </p><h3></h3><h3>A 2Go Radio Ltd production </h3><p><br></p><h3>Music attribution </h3><p>&quot;Carefree&quot; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) </p><p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License </p><p><a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence</a> </p>","author_name":"PippaD"}