{"id":36989,"date":"2025-09-20T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36989"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:11:28","slug":"how-i-turned-five-minutes-of-work-into-a-five-day-hospital-visit-by-rushing-47-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36989","title":{"rendered":"How I turned five minutes of work into a five day hospital visit by rushing &#8211; 47 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36967\">Last post<\/a>: Harry Welty for School Board Page (52 days before the 11-4-2025 election)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37007\">Next post<\/a> My fifty year record in public education<\/p>\n<p>Harry is an information omnivore. Over 19 years he written about every topic on the list to the right. For more, use this blog&#8217;s search function (upper right). Or email Harry a question here: <a href=\"mailto:harrywelty@charter.net\">harrywelty@charter.net<\/a>. Or ask any AI engine to summarize Harry Welty. Or give him a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UmdNSCsFM7Q\">3 minute listen<\/a>. Or read <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37201\">Harry&#8217;s campaign flyer<\/a>. Or google &#8220;Harry Welty&#8217;s snow sculptures&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/images\/logos\/Snowbizzlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW I TURNED 5 MINUTES OF WORK INTO A FIVE DAY HOSPITAL STAY BY RUSHING<\/strong><br \/>\nHour one in the Hospital:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54794574407_aa746843e2_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I landed square on my back with a last rude thump with my head against my garage&#8217;s concrete floor thoughts of how much I screwed up my campaign by rushing to pull heavy boxes of lawnsigns around a void between rafters carelessly would dash the five minutes of work into smithereens like my internal parts with the fall. ten seconds of taking stock of my body from the floor led to my pulling myself up powered by adrenaline as I shrieked the rudest most useless words to curse myself. Then I dragged my butt to the wall propped myself up and stuck my hand in my front pocket to call Claudia for help. When she answered I said &#8220;you need to take me to an emergency room. I&#8217;m on the garage floor.&#8221; or words to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday I was primed to jump out at the starting gate of my campaign. I needed to slap &#8220;for school board&#8221; stickers on my Mug Shot campaign  signs for Congress. Now instead of doing that I hobbled into my house to wash my hands for a trip to St. Lukes which was so packed my ragged body had to sleep in the emergency room that first night without ear plugs to tune out the beeps and shouts etc. I lay awake all night wondering if I would be under bedrest for the next two weeks instead of wondering slapping up signs in a couple of days. And I toughed out the next five days in good humor but also with an attitude of forcing my healing which led my daily nurses to set an alarm I was not aware of the shriek if I dared to get out of bed. My reward for sitting up one night to pee in a plastic &#8220;urinal&#8221;  was a hideous alarm that caused a nurse to rush into room looking for a patient flat on the ground. Instead she found and old fart with his back to her and kidneys that immediately grew bashful.<\/p>\n<p>That sleepless Sunday night I gaming my planned appearance at the Tuesday morning candidate&#8217;s debate being put on by the Tribune and Chamber of Commerce. Monday I called up Chuck Frederick and old acquaintance to lobby for a zoom appearance. That didn&#8217;t pan out but my better half coached me to behave and negotiate like I has having to do with St. Lukes Physical Therapists who wanted to me sure I could walk before I tried to run. That led the Trib to offer a solo interview of me to be added to their three candidate School Board forum online. That may happen next week.<\/p>\n<p>I thanked Chuck yesterday after returning home. I told him I had a good night&#8217;s sleep on a thick mattress without pain, pokes or alarms to keep me awake.<\/p>\n<p>My campaign is now a week shorter but I&#8217;ve come up with a few work arounds for my broken hip and back&#8230;.. I will be putting up signs even if I can&#8217;t put in 30,000 steps a day like back in my 2017 school board campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Me now:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54798076856_cd53fe54df.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post: Harry Welty for School Board Page (52 days before the 11-4-2025 election) Next post My fifty year record in public education Harry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36989"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37252,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36989\/revisions\/37252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}