Post #750

Today is post #750. Yeah. It seems like only yesterday (OK, maybe day before yesterday) that we started this blog. So I’ve searched and searched to find something significant, something we could all relate to regarding the number 750. There’s nothing. No date, no weight, no temperature (no pre-heat your oven to 750). But I found this from an old UTST post from 2016 regarding an even higher number:

We were visiting a friend at the hospital a while back, and an employee pushing a gurney volunteered that he had transported an 1100 pound man the day before. You read that right. One thousand one hundred pounds. That’s heavier than my whole family. I don’t think the employee was exaggerating, because, if he was, he would have said 1000, not 1100 lbs. People generally round off when they exaggerate. They don’t use numbers like 1100.

So, I’m thinking, do the patient files on the hospital computer even have a four digit field for weight? If the fields only contain 3 digits, do they just enter his weight at 999 lbs? Or do they admit him as 2 people maybe and split the weight? Can they refuse to admit him? Does it even matter at that point? 

In the animal world there are small animal veterinarians and farm animal veterinarians. Are we humans headed for that?