{"id":638,"date":"2005-10-09T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2005-10-09T06:30:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T13:30:27","slug":"i-sure-hope-i-survive-the-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"I sure hope I survive the marathon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not even running the thing. Every year (for about five or six years) I&#8217;ve volunteered to do radio communications, and I&#8217;ve been at Milepost 12. Well, this year I&#8217;m doing the same thing and I was just about to go to bed early when my mom showed me her swollen arm that was reacting to the pneumovax shot she got when she got a &#8216;flu shot. I called the advice nurse and she told me that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>anyone over 60 years old with a temperature over 101 should go to the emergency room (and she had a fever of 100.7 earlier in the day), and<\/li>\n<li>any reaction greater than 2&#8243; in diameter means a trip to the emergency room (and the swelling was about 3&#8243; in diameter).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Well, volunteering in an ER for three years told me that a trip to the Emergency Room meant, &#8220;Hurry up and wait.&#8221; I told my mom to grab a book and the timeline was:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>10:27    arrive at the ER and check in<\/p>\n<p>10:50    go through triage<\/p>\n<p>00:00    get a room back in the ER proper<\/p>\n<p>00:20    get a visit from admitting (paperwork for payment)<\/p>\n<p>01:00-01:03    talk to the doctor<\/p>\n<p>01:45    finally get to bed<\/p>\n<p>06:00    get up for the marathon volunteer thing<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck (and all I&#8217;m doing is standing in one spot for 5 1\/2 hours.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not even running the thing. Every year (for about five or six years) I&#8217;ve volunteered to do radio communications, and I&#8217;ve been at Milepost 12. Well, this year I&#8217;m doing the same thing and I was just about to go to bed early when my mom showed me her swollen arm that was reacting to the pneumovax shot she got when she got a &#8216;flu shot. I called the advice nurse and she told me that: anyone over 60 years old with a temperature over 101 should go to the emergency room (and she had a fever of 100.7 earlier in the day), and any reaction greater than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I sure hope I survive the marathon.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}