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Hit 11,000 steps pacing the ER hallway at 2am and somehow that number flipped my whole night
My kid spiked a fever so I spent 6 hours walking him around St. Mary's waiting on test results, and when my watch buzzed 11,000 steps the nurse laughed and said that's a marathon in bad linoleum. Anyone else ever have a number show up at the worst moment and weirdly cheer you up?
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carter.thea18d ago
How old is your little guy, and did the fever finally break once the test results came back? Six hours in an ER hallway with a sick kid sounds like its own kind of hell, but that nurse sounds like a gem for cracking that joke at 2am. What got me is that your watch buzzed right in the middle of all that worry, like your own body was reminding you that you were still moving and doing the thing. Did you end up telling your kid about the 11,000 steps later, or is that just a story for you? I keep thinking about how weird it is that a random number can land at the exact moment you need it.
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