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Chapter 1: What is the significance of Wild Card XII in the podcast series?
welcome welcome welcome to armchair anonymous i'm dan rather and i'm joined by monica padman hi today is wild card 12 12 i cannot believe we've had 12 wild cards we love a wild card we do because you don't know what you're gonna get are you gonna get sepsis uh-oh someone might uh-oh Yeah, this is wild, as promised, as advertised. Please enjoy Wild Card 12. Hard times come and go.
Good times take them slow. My life, I had them both. But one thing you got to know, I'm going to keep on shining. Hello. Hi. I see you're in your closet.
I am. My closet is tiny. I live in a Cape Cod house, so it's quite small.
How long have you lived there?
I have been here for about five years.
You and who?
My husband.
How long have you been married?
About three years. He and his parents actually renovated this whole house, and then the last nail was hammered in, and I met him that next month.
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Chapter 2: What funny story does the guest share about college graduation?
Duh. Obviously, like, what a stupid question. So the person responds, man, put the lighter down and step out of the gazebo.
Oh, that sounds like a law enforcement.
It is a law enforcement officer. And this is where I learned three very important things. At the same time that we were lighting these books on fire, there was a freshman across the quad that was lighting fireworks off. And so campus police came down to handle that. And they stumbled upon...
this scene instead, I also learned that there has been for the last several months in this dorm building where I spend no time, a serial arsonist.
Goodness. Okay. Wow.
That they have been trying to capture. And I learned later that this serial arsonist has been lighting trash cans on fire inside of the building, has been lighting rolls of toilet paper on fire and rolling them down hallways. So there's a serial arsonist at large. And this campus police officer thinks that he has captured that arsonist and that that arsonist is me.
And with the benefit of hindsight, I mean, it looks like I have put kindling inside of this wooden structure.
No, you want to talk about pun intended, caught red-handed. I mean, my goodness. Of course you're the arsonist.
And I admitted it freely. I have put books in this gazebo. I'm lighting it in a circle. All of my friends at this point have ran, so it looks like it is just me because I had my back to him as he arrived. And so he puts me in cuffs. I end up in the back of the car. My friends have all run, and...
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Chapter 3: How did a night of celebration lead to unexpected trouble?
I get back to campus. I'm in the dean of students office where I then get filled in completely on the arson situation. And I have completely convinced the dean of students that I am not this arsonist. It is just a different, unconnected arson. The flames weren't even sending the gazebo. Like there was no marking anywhere. My dad went back the next day to take pictures.
But she suspends me for a semester and she withholds my diploma. She doesn't want to let me walk at graduation the next day because she wants to send a message that they don't. take Hanley to arson, which I cannot fault her for that message. But I'm also dealing with two felony charges on top of now this academic suspension and potential to not walk.
So I beg her, like my grandmother just flew in from the Southwest. She is actively driving to me right now. She hasn't seen any grandchildren graduate yet. Like give me an empty piece of paper. I do not care. But please let me graduate. And she agrees to that. She still suspends me. The diploma is still withheld, but she lets me walk. But my family thought it was the funniest thing ever.
My grandmother the entire weekend was like moving candles away from me at restaurants.
Yeah, this is the product of being a really good girl your whole life is everyone can have a good sense of humor about it. They're probably happy you got into trouble a little bit.
Well, this is their favorite story to tell. I actually was a little bit nervous about telling it just because I never am the one that tells it. They are telling it about me. Sure. Just as an update for the charges, they actually ended up dropping the arson charge altogether. They changed the destruction of property charge to under 250. which is a misdemeanor.
I had to go to court-appointed therapy. They had actually recommended Firestarters Anonymous, but that is typically for children.
Oh, is it really?
That's a thing? Yeah, not a great fit for what happened with me. Typically, if you are going to that program, you've been starting fires for quite a long time. But the therapist also thought this was very funny. She laughed at me when I told her the whole story.
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Chapter 4: What consequences did the guest face after lighting books on fire?
We went out, we got dinner and then, you know, we went dancing and it was great. And we stayed up late. It was really fun. So then the next morning I woke up and I'm like, Alison, I am not feeling well. So I had gotten a blister on the back of my foot a week earlier from tennis shoes, not even from heels. And I was like, my blister kind of feels weird. And she's like, That's so funny.
I was like, okay, but I'm here to show you the DC experience. So we go do all the monuments.
Do you put a bandaid over the blister? Do you wear two pairs of socks? How are you addressing walking around with the blister?
I had actually worn boots because it was also November, which I had forgotten to mention. And my foot had actually swollen a little bit. And so it wouldn't fit into my boots. And so I had to go and change into my Birkenstocks back at home. That are open in the back. Yes. And so I walked around D.C. probably, I think it was a whole half marathon, over 13 miles at that point.
not feeling great but you know it is what it is oh no yeah so we go to dinner that night i'm really not feeling great okay we'll take you to an urgent care tomorrow morning and we'll get you some antibiotics i'm like great so the next morning we wake up we go and the doctor sees me he's like you've got a little bit of an infection let's get you some oral antibiotics he looks at the heel Yes.
And at this point, it's like a little red. It's not too bad in his defense, in everyone's defense. I want to make that very clear.
What did it feel like? Did it feel different than just like when you have a normal blister and it hurts a lot? Did it feel like different?
Yes, it felt different and it also felt hot. I want to treat my friend to a good time. So then we continue on with our touristy. We're walking around. It's a great time. I send her on her way Sunday afternoon. Next morning, I have to walk to work because I don't have a car in D.C. Most people don't have cars. And walking to work, that was a tough one. It was pretty swollen.
I had the mules where I could slide my foot into it. But also, it's November, so I'm freezing. I get to work and I'm like, guys, look at this blister. It's crazy. And they're like, yeah, this looks really, really bad. you should probably go to the doctor. And I'm like, no, I've already been. I'm on oral antibiotics. It's fine. And this older coworker of mine takes one look at it.
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Chapter 5: How did the guest's family react to the incident?
Yeah. This is crazy. At this point, the red has spread. The red has gone up my leg past my knee. Oh, my entire leg is quite inflamed at this point. Oh, I'm like, I think I need to go get some stronger antibiotics. And I go back to the same urgent care guy and he's like, you need to go to a podiatrist. This is bad. So I Uber back to the podiatrist. I've spent so much money on Ubers at this point.
I'm making no money. So this is really big deal for me. I go back to the podiatrist. She takes one look at my leg. She's like, if you don't go to the emergency room right now, you're going to lose this leg.
Oh, my God.
Keep in mind, this is from a blister. Yeah. I'm like, this is crazy. I was just there. It was 13 hours and they didn't see me. And so she's saying, okay, I'll give them a call and make sure that they see you. But there is no if, ands or buts. You've got to go to the emergency room. And luckily it's a whole medical district in DC. So I just walk across the street. Thank goodness.
Because I get there and they still don't see me. So it takes a couple of more hours. So I'm on hour five at this point, emergency room again. My body starts to like shake. It is sepsis. It was exactly that. So shutting down, I go to the nurse. I'm like, hey, would it be possible for you to take my temperature? I think something's wrong. I might have a fever. And so she takes it. So it's 103.
What's your pain scale right now? And I'm like, it might be at an eight or a nine. She's like, have you ever been at a 10? I'm like, no, I don't think so. Cause nothing bad has ever happened in my life. Like I've never gotten a bad injury.
This is why you're so optimistic about this whole thing.
Exactly. She's like, so I think that this is your 10. I do believe that you have sepsis and your body is shutting down. She's like, we're going to admit you right now. Because if we don't, something bad is going to happen. I find out later that bad thing is in fact death. Like I would have died because it was in my bloodstream at that point. They put me on morphine.
And this is when I really find out that it's bad because the morphine didn't stop my shaking. So they finally get me on IV antibiotics. And my body, funnily enough, is allergic to this antibiotic. This is an episode of House. Truly. So I get this thing.
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Chapter 6: What lessons did the guest learn from their experience with the law?
It's called Redman syndrome. I think they've renamed it now because of, you know, it's bad. It's past my knee. My leg is red and my body's now match that redness. And they're like, OK, so now we have to flush this antibiotic because obviously your body is having an allergic reaction to this, which they get really freaked out about because they're
So much time has passed now, like the 13 hours, the five hours, the overnight. It's completely in my bloodstream. And so basically they get me back on a different antibiotic at this point. Apparently it was just in time where it didn't go into my bone. They were going to have to chip away my bone because they thought that it was in that. But luckily they taught it right for that.
And so they finally at that point are like, OK, we'll admit you into the hospital. I'm like, OK, well, what's the hospital going to do for me? And they're like, well, we have to let the infection get through your bloodstream enough to where it can basically like coagulate into like a little ball to where they can carve it out. Yeah, this is so gnarly.
Oh, my God.
This is where the pictures come in. So if you want to see the picture.
Oh, I'm scared. I'm so scared. I'm very scared. Oh my head. So there's like a little progression. Oh my God. It looks like you have an eggplant hanging off the back of your ankle.
This is not a blizzard.
I don't know how to describe this.
Oh.
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Chapter 7: How did the guest navigate their legal challenges after the incident?
And they were like, you know what? We wish that we had this in our marriage or like, this is what we wish that we were doing. Like, good for you guys. They did. Yeah, they were sweet and really understanding. The only saving grace for myself was that I never responded to him with any of those messages. Like I never gave it back that way. And so I felt like I at least didn't expose myself.
Yes, there is a glass half full here. That's a lot to be grateful for.
Were they implying that it wasn't you? Because they said you would never.
It was more like they never thought my husband would intentionally do these things. But was he? Like just that little question, you know, like, does he know that this is being broadcast?
Like, was he fucking with us?
That's tough.
And then luckily, I guess everyone was always out of the classroom when he was out of the classroom, because that would be a real tough one.
Yeah. I'm so glad that like no janitor or other after hours person overheard this. So he also immediately had to disconnect them. Oh, my God. So we moved recently and none of the electives made it during the move. I made sure of that.
Wow.
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Chapter 8: What humorous twist does the guest reveal about their husband's use of Alexa?
What's the thing they're always saying on 16 Minutes? Pneumococcal pneumonia.
Oh, yeah, pneumococcal pneumonia.
Hemo, pneumococcal pneumonia.
Oh, wow.
I hate when these great laid plans go awry because I don't want anyone to be discouraged to get out there and slide around on a tube. I just got to maybe make sure the area is a little free.
Recently, they actually got a large amount of snow in coastal North Carolina. And my brother sent a video pulling my nieces around on a sled.
Yes, of course.
We're still doing it. Don't worry.
I like this family.
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