{"id":637,"date":"2021-02-14T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=637"},"modified":"2021-02-14T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:45:37","slug":"hartford-a-dream-and-videochat-with-my-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2021\/02\/hartford-a-dream-and-videochat-with-my-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartford, a dream, and videochat with my recipient!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It&#8217;s official &#8211; I registered for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordmarathon.com\/eversource-hartford-marathon\/\">Hartford Marathon<\/a>, to be held Saturday, October 9, 2021! They&#8217;re very thoughtfully giving the option to get a full refund if you change your mind before June 1, and there will be capacity limits and other safety adaptations. I hope the finish won&#8217;t change &#8211; it&#8217;s under the  Memorial Arch with hundreds of mums lining the final approach, and it&#8217;s been described as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/invertedsneakers.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/12\/race-review-eversource-hartford-marathon\/\">most beautiful marathon finishes<\/a>.<\/li><li>Like many people&#8217;s, my anxiety dreams evolve to include new aspects of my life &#8211; the common &#8220;exam I forgot to study for&#8221; was joined by &#8220;class I forgot to prep&#8221; when I briefly taught adult ed, &#8220;role I forgot to learn&#8221; when doing theater, etc. But I was not expecting a &#8220;need to go back and finish kidney donation&#8221; dream! In it there was a second surgery I had forgotten about, so I was late and unprepared. I had driven myself to the hospital, neglecting to coordinate with Jonathan and not realizing I&#8217;d be in overnight and he wouldn&#8217;t be able to pick me up because the car was in Springfield. I got lost trying to get back to my room. But the funniest part was that I went ahead and started the surgery on my own (!) and my wonderful (real life) surgeon, Dr. Kurbanov, was angry at me. I sheepishly told him &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking.&#8221; It was such a relief to wake up!<\/li><li>Best of all, super-duper exciting and wonderful: I was able to videochat yesterday with my recipient and her husband. Valentine&#8217;s day is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donatelife.net\/celebrations\/national-donor-day\">National Donor Day<\/a> so it was extra-appropriate. We have a lot in common, especially our love of reading, and it&#8217;s so cool that she lives not that far away. We&#8217;ll all get together for dinner someday when the pandemic permits.  She looks wonderful &#8211; she says her color is back! I was already so happy about having donated, but being in touch with her is the lovely extra cherry on top, the icing on the cake, the bonus I didn&#8217;t count on. There&#8217;s something about seeing her that feels like tying a bow on the whole experience &#8211; visual confirmation that my previous kidney is working and doing its job in its new home. It&#8217;s like a halo of joy around the contentment I was already feeling.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official &#8211; I registered for the Hartford Marathon, to be held Saturday, October 9, 2021! They&#8217;re very thoughtfully giving the option to get a full refund if you change your mind before June 1, and there will be capacity limits and other safety adaptations. I hope the finish won&#8217;t change &#8211; it&#8217;s under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidney-donation","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}