{"id":607,"date":"2020-12-01T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:53:20","slug":"thunderbirds-are-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2020\/12\/thunderbirds-are-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbirds are GO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coordinator consulted with the whole team and they are all confident in my safety (which I was too) and that elective surgeries won&#8217;t be canceled unless things get truly terrible here &#8211; which they might&#8230; Jonathan and I talked at great length and I decided to go ahead but to wait to inform my family until closer to. So, pre-surgery testing today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Covid test &#8211; just a long, somewhat uncomfortable Q-tip, not the brain scrape people have mentioned. No wait &#8211; I got there early and was done before my actual appointment time. Still waiting for results.<\/li><li>9 tubes of blood, not too bad. The phlebotomist was so nice and said she&#8217;d be seeing me again. The whole team has been wonderful; I feel very fortunate in my transplant center.<\/li><li>Meeting with the coordinator &#8211; my recipient is female and middle-aged, just like me! There&#8217;s a slight possibility we might get to say hello post-surgery\/pre-discharge, but no promises of course and it&#8217;s up to how she feels.<\/li><li>A bag of stuff &#8211; magnesium citrate for bowel prep, 3 bottles of pre-surgery Ensure (blech!), special soap for washing<\/li><li>Met with my social worker in person for the first time &#8211; I really liked her. She also has run 3 marathons, loved hearing our Carl Kasell answering message from when I was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/?p=14\">Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/a>, and so I got to tell her about being on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/?tag=jeopardy\">Jeopardy!<\/a> &#8211; and it turns out my coordinator&#8217;s son lurves J! and I shared my videos\/blog posts with them<\/li><li>Meeting with the financial coordinator, pharmacist, and a surgeon (who will be attending, not the primary). I will automatically get a TAP block for abdominal pain, yay. No surprises there except:<\/li><li>They are taking the left kidney, with two arteries and one vein, over the right with one artery but three veins(!) I will keep the Captain (Darryl Dragon) and donate (Toni) Tennille no matter which is which.<\/li><li>Confirmed: no visitors\/companions at all &#8211; Jonathan will drop me off and pick me up when I&#8217;m discharged. I&#8217;m fine with that &#8211; makes it easier in some ways.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coordinator consulted with the whole team and they are all confident in my safety (which I was too) and that elective surgeries won&#8217;t be canceled unless things get truly terrible here &#8211; which they might&#8230; Jonathan and I talked at great length and I decided to go ahead but to wait to inform my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidney-donation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}