{"id":1494,"date":"2010-11-08T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T17:32:00","slug":"reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/08\/reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> just got home from work. They called her at 7pm on a Sunday because, as she put it, there was a woman trying to die and doing a pretty decent job at it. The second in command doctor was freaking out &#8211; and apparently the chain stops at my wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s the most important thing that makes your phone ring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> went in and did her damndest &#8211; operating &#8211; thinking &#8211; and finally doing some large number of chest compressions (&#8220;I can tell I&#8217;ve been working out&#8221;) before they finally &#8220;called it,&#8221; and pronounced the woman dead. The woman&#8217;s daughter was visible from where <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> was doing the compressions &#8211; on the bed, with said second in command spotting her so she wouldn&#8217;t fall. She would dedicate sets to the daughter, to the father of the baby, etc. &#8220;This one&#8217;s for that relative right there. Live.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> is now sitting next to me drinking tea, reading recipes online, and occasionally needing a hug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me? I didn&#8217;t do shit today. Or this year. Or with my whole damn life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>redmed just got home from work. They called her at 7pm on a Sunday because, as she put it, there was a woman trying to die and doing a pretty decent job at it. The second in command doctor was freaking out &#8211; and apparently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}