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From episode 968, Wild Card 9. Christina?
Yes, hi.
How are you?
Good, how are you guys today?
Wonderful. Where are you?
I live in New Hampshire. Oh, lovely. We're hitting some new spots today.
Yeah, we are.
And I like that.
We're in the Northeast.
I mean, it's fall foliage season. You can't beat this time of year.
Oh, lovely. Okay, so you have a wild card story, which are our favorites, because we have no clue what you're going to tell us.
All right, let's get started. So this all started in January of this year. Recent. Very recent. And it was a freezing cold day, as January days typically are in New Hampshire. This was the kind of day that you go outside and within two to three minutes, your nose hairs feel like they're completely frozen. So I was taking my daughter and her friend and her friend's mom down to Boston College for a lacrosse game. camp for the day. We parked in the closest parking garage that we could find to the stadium so that we didn't have to walk outside very much. So we dropped the girls off at lacrosse and then headed out to get sushi in Boston together. So I don't know about y'all, but I love a lot of soy sauce with my sushi.
Yeah, sure. Me too.
So we spent about three and a half hours just enjoying a relaxing dinner out. And then we headed back to Boston to get the girls. So I forgot to tell you that I am a thirsty person at baseline. I have the water bottle with me everywhere I go. And I usually have a pink stainless steel water bottle that if I'm going somewhere for five minutes, I have it. Or if I'm gone for the day, I literally choose purses based on if I can fit a water bottle.
It's your blankie.
It is. A lot of people do this.
The girls all have steel water bottles we leave the house with, and then they leave them in my car, and it sounds like bowling balls rolling around in the backseat. Of all the blankies they have, I think it's the best. Probably water.
It's a good one. But when you add soy sauce on top of already a thirsty person... I was absolutely parched when I got back in the car. And of course, I had drank my water bottle as we traveled from New Hampshire to Boston, so I didn't have any water left. So when we arrived to pick up the girls at BC, as if the hydration gods had spoken, and there was a huge cooler of smart water, like the fancy alkaline kind, at the camp.
What wild card story is shared?
So I helped myself to one of those. We got everybody back in the car. I poured it through the spout of my water bottle, and we continued on our way back up to New Hampshire. So it was an uneventful evening. We went to bed. Alarms went off the next morning and it was Monday. So I have about a 35 minute commute to work. And so one of my routines in the morning is that I bring coffee and water in the car and I force myself to basically have a sip of coffee and then a sip of water, mostly just to feel adequately hydrated and adequately caffeinated before I get to work every day.
Yeah.
And my nine-year-old son frequently makes my coffee in the morning. And let's just say that quality control is not his forte.
Sure, sure, sure.
That's so sweet, though.
A lot of variety in each morning's batch.
So on this particular morning, about six minutes into my drive, I have kind of a gritty piece of something in my mouth. This isn't super out of the ordinary for me. Again, coffee grounds are a frequent thing that I find in my coffee. So I pick it out of my mouth and it's white, not brown.
Oh, interesting.
So it's not a coffee ground. But again, my son has creative freedom with coffee making. I've had candy canes in my coffee, Hershey Kisses.
Are there any ceramics in the mix? Like I'm thinking what could be white in your coffee?
What unexpected events occur during the trip to Boston?
Is it broken ceramics?
No, it's in a stainless steel coffee mug.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–2:46
2
What wild card story is shared?
2:46–4:05
3
What unexpected events occur during the trip to Boston?
4:05–7:09
4
What shocking discovery is made at the end of the story?
7:09–43:31
5
What unexpected situations can arise in nursing?
43:31–43:53
6
How do nurses deal with humorous but serious patient stories?
43:53–44:29
7
What are the challenges of handling emergency situations?
44:29–45:11
8
How do personal experiences shape perspectives on medical incidents?
45:11–1:29:24