{"id":63866,"date":"2026-06-11T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63866"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:05:21","slug":"need-potassium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63866","title":{"rendered":"Need Potassium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. Oncology visit. Blood draw. Later in the day. Calling with test results. I thought: PSA. Testosterone. Nope. Potassium level. Critically low. 2.9.\u00a0 An emergency. I sat up at that word.<\/p>\n<p>You have to come in tomorrow for a four hour infusion of potassium. 11:40 appointment. Oh. First thought. How am I gonna get there? Still. Emergency. Heart related. OK. Call Tara first.<\/p>\n<p>She said yes. Bless her. Probably Uber home. Mary will go with me.<\/p>\n<p>Move forward. Head down. Stay calm. Working so far.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t sleep well. Up several times for the bathroom. A bit foggy this am.<\/p>\n<p>Fun talking to Mary. She knows so much about Asia after 39 years in Malaysia and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Closing in on Flag Day. The Toad Prince will have sat on 80 mushrooms. His big day will occur in &#8220;The Claw,&#8221; a cage match stadium built on the front lawn of our house. How low can we go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Oncology visit. Blood draw. Later in the day. Calling with test results. I thought: PSA. Testosterone. Nope. Potassium level. Critically low. 2.9.\u00a0 An emergency. I sat up at that word. You have to come in tomorrow for a four hour infusion of potassium. 11:40 appointment. Oh. First thought. How am I gonna get there? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need Potassium<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63866\/revisions\/63867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}