On that morning, I was lying on the couch, having just stoked the wood stove in hopes of warming up the place a bit.<\/p>\n
I was probably dehydrated. (I am terrible at that.) And I had not eaten since dinner the evening before. Finally, I suspect that I was having a hot flash just as you stepped onto the deck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These hot flashes of mine have been going on for years as a consequence of various run-ins with cancer, and I barely notice them anymore (unless I’m grilling outside on the 4th of July with smoke in my eyes in the 98 degree heat and the full Texas sun…).\u00a0<\/p>\n
So anyway, that was the situation as I can best reconstruct it: dehydrated, hungry, in the midst of a hot flash.\u00a0And then you came around the corner, and I jumped up from the couch to greet you at the cottage door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
You know the rest of the story.\u00a0The guys from the volunteer fire department. Their oxygen mask on my face. The ambulance arriving a few minutes later. Their EKG sensors and wires attached to my body.\u00a0The nurses in the emergency room and their second set of EKG sensors and wires. Your morning ruined while I lay there on a gurney for hours until the doctor said there was nothing wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nothing wrong. I just sometimes get stars in my eyes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On that morning, I was lying on the couch, having just stoked the wood stove in hopes of warming up the place a bit. I was probably dehydrated. (I am terrible at that.) And I had not eaten since dinner the evening before. Finally, I suspect that I was having a hot flash just as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}