{"id":525,"date":"2010-06-01T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=525"},"modified":"2010-06-01T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T20:46:43","slug":"tuesday-post-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"TUESDAY — post-implant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy now has a cardiovertor defibrillator<\/em> monitoring her heart functions and ready to intervene should said heart develop electro-mechanical problems.\u00a0 The worst of these, sudden cardiac arrest, can lead to death in minutes.<Insert big sigh of relief here<\/em>.><\/p>\n

Nancy and I have been playing puppy-tag for the past week \u2013 meaning when Nancy would show up at the whelping box I could leave and then I would return and she could leave.\u00a0 Six of the puppies would likely survive an extended period without intervention but the seventh, a small male, is not bulky enough to keep from getting shoved aside by the others.<\/p>\n

One plan was for us to use the pick-up with the canopy and cart mother and pups along to Yakima in separate housing, then there, I could put them together for a bit, then isolate them again, and so on.\u00a0 The truck is designed for heavy loads and trailer pulling and is a rough rider.\u00a0 This, I thought, would shake all of the animals, and us, unnecessarily.\u00a0 Also, when contemplating this maneuver I did not know what the weather would be like.\u00a0 If \u201chot and sunny\u201d the back of the pick-up could be like and oven.\u00a0 So, while doable, this appeared to be a humungous hassle and prone to problems.<\/p>\n

Instead of attempting the shake-&-bake approach Nancy enlisted the driving prowess of a friend, R, and I stayed home.\u00a0 Nancy left home about 7 A.M.\u00a0 R lives (almost) on the path Nancy would take so the extra time needed was very small.\u00a0 Nancy got checked in starting at about 8:30, saw a short video on what to expect, got prepped, and began the procedure shortly after 11.\u00a0 They finished in about an hour and called me shortly after Noon.<\/p>\n

Nancy was with a nurse in a room near where the procedure was done and lunch had been ordered.\u00a0 Sometime in the afternoon she would go to a room to spend the night.\u00a0 Not knowing any more, that is all I can write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy now has a cardiovertor defibrillator monitoring her heart functions and ready to intervene should said heart develop electro-mechanical problems.\u00a0 The worst of these, sudden cardiac arrest, can lead to death in minutes.<Insert big sigh of relief here.> Nancy and I have been playing puppy-tag for the past week \u2013 meaning when Nancy would show … Continue reading “TUESDAY — post-implant”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-8t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}