I got the day right but missed the time.\u00a0 Last week I had to pick a time to get the car serviced and hoped to combine activities, thereby having to make one less trip to Yakima.\u00a0 So, I said to the man, \u201cSure, lets do it Wednesday.\u201d\u00a0 Then I estimated they would discharge Nancy right after lunch and picked a 10 A.M. appointment with the service shop.<\/p>\n
There was a problem.\u00a0 Magnesium (Mg).\u00a0 This element is used by the body in many chemical reactions.\u00a0 It is an important electrolyte along with sodium, calcium, potassium, and chloride.\u00a0 The last is discussed here:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chloride<\/a><\/p>\n Magnesium is discussed here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnesium<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 where it claims it to be the 11th<\/sup> most abundant element by mass in the human body.\u00a0 Scroll to \u201cBiological role\u201d more than half-way through the page.\u00a0 Well, the point is that the doctor decided Nancy was a quart low and as long as she was in the shop, why not just top-er-up some.\u00a0 Why not indeed?<\/p>\n Time is why. \u00a0Slower is better. \u00a0Look at this: \u201cSupplementation with 1 to 4 g of MgSO4 over 1 to 4 hours is usually adequate, depending on the extent of deficiency; the administration rate should be slower for infusing increasing amounts in nonemergency situations to avoid hypotension.\u201d<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com\/data\/articles\/35.htm<\/a><\/p>\n Hypotension simply means abnormally low blood pressure.\u00a0 Sure thing we don\u2019t want to do that to Nancy, so slow it is.\u00a0 So, over lunch and into the afternoon Nancy was infused with antibiotics and then switched to a slow drip to bring her Mg level up to the “full” line.<\/p>\n Long-story-short:\u00a0 She exited through the front door at 4:05 P.M. and we were home at five o\u2019clock.\u00a0 She is feeling good.\u00a0 Sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got the day right but missed the time.\u00a0 Last week I had to pick a time to get the car serviced and hoped to combine activities, thereby having to make one less trip to Yakima.\u00a0 So, I said to the man, \u201cSure, lets do it Wednesday.\u201d\u00a0 Then I estimated they would discharge Nancy right … Continue reading “WEDNESDAY — Dang!”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-9O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}