Provo Half Marathon

"Thou Shalt Run"

Start the running season off right by testing your grit at this year’s Provo City Half Marathon! This downhill course is perfect for the rookie or the seasoned veteran, so be a part of this year’s race and earn yourself a blazing fast PR! The race start at South Fork Park up Provo Canyon and finishes in downtown Provo, at the intersection of Center Street & University Ave. Live music, great food, entertainment and activities for the whole family await you at the finish line. As the original downtown Provo race, we are ready to prove once again that Provo knows how to have a good time!

Jan & Marsha out for some Saturday fun.

We are calling on all kids to come be a part of the Provo City Marathon this year by participating in the Kids Marathon! We hope to encourage healthy lifestyles by creating a challenging but fun event for children in School Grades K – 6. Here is how it works: Register your child for the Provo City Kids Marathon. Download the Kids Running Log and keep track of each mile your child runs by signing the log. In order to earn a finisher’s medal, each child will need to run a total of 25 miles before May 5th and on race morning he or she will run the final 1.2 miles with all the other children registered for the Kids Marathon.




Stats for the half marathon race, Jan and I and friends:

1500

Marsha

Monson

Riverton

UT

56

F 55-59

F

3:23:45

3:25:35

15:33/M

1092

690

6

1501

Jan

Monson

Riverton

UT

57

M 55-59

M

3:23:45

3:25:35

15:33/M

1093

403

17

1307

Liz

Gotter

Orem

UT

32

F 30-34

F

2:33:21

2:35:10

11:42/M

985

615

151

1079 Christy Flowers Ogden UT 65 F 65-69 F 2:22:23 2:23:30 10:52/M 887 535 2

Marathon:

188

John

Wollenzien

Orem,

UT

34

M 30-34

M

3:52:12

3:52:13

8:52/M

81

58

14

256

Jonathan

Crampton

Pl Grove

UT

50

M 50-54

M

4:06:22

4:06:30

9:24/M

105

72

4

Jason Gotter                 Christy Flowers

John Wollenzein - GO John!!!

Jonathan Crampton - Utah Pacers

Change in Hike Plans - Emergency Room

Waiting for final discharge, nosebleed has stopped.

This afternoon I was so excited because for the first time Sandy's husband Ken was going to lead us on a new hike that we had never been on. Since I didn't go on the morning hike I was itching to go.
During lunch, as I was finishing my food I noticed that Jan was missing and his plate was sitting next to me unfinished. I thought he must be getting something inside because today it was so nice we were sitting outside at the picnic tables with our friends.
Well, a few minutes later I noticed he was still missing and I got concerned, he always picks up his plates and now I wondered what was wrong. Then I saw him just a short distance away, walking toward the cabin. I called to him, he turned around and signaled me to come with him. It was then that I learned he had a nosebleed, which is not uncommon for him, but this time he couldn't get it to stop.
I followed him to the cabin and got out my first aide book and looked up nosebleeds. It helped me to understand it a little better, but this was no help. It was really flowing and going down the back of his throat - the normal things he's always done weren't helping. Now he was scared. We decided to go to get help.
We ended up right close to camp at the Barton Instacare. We were seen pretty quickly. Jan's blood pressure was out of control, 180. This is probably a contributing factor in what was happening, besides the Plavex and aspirin a day that he takes thinning his blood out. First thing they did was give Jan a pincher thingy for his nose and a pill to get his blood pressure down. The doctor put a sponge in his nostril (ouch Jan said it felt like sandpaper). And guess what, this did not stop it. They wanted us to go to the emergency room. So we paid our $161 for this visit and headed to the hospital.
The Barton Hospital was about 6 miles away and their emergency room was at the back. We got triaged right away, but it took about and hour and a half to be seen by a doctor. People were stacked up. All kinds of problems and so they do the triage and people are not helped in the order they arrive. Well, what Jan ended up needing was Time. Time for it to stop on its own. Time for his blood pressure to come down, which it finally did.
The doctor in emergency took the other sponge out and was going to put in another but all of the sudden the bleeding finally stopped. So he moved us out of that emergency room into a smaller one where we waited one hour to see if it had really stopped for good. This room was colder than the last room, the nurse brought me a warm blanket to wrap up in while we waited.
We got a new nurse after we changed rooms, her name was Jan. So after the doctor visited us for a last check nurse Jan then brought patient Jan's discharge papers, cut off his hospital bracelets and we got the heck outta there after paying our $100 co-pay. The whole ordeal: 12:30 - 6:30 6 hours of fun. NOT. We were late for dinner but the staff at Camp W was nice to leave it out until we arrived at 7pm.

Successful Surgery - Before & After

Dr. Kenwood and Jan in cardiac ICU after surgery.

Well the surgery is over, Jan has 2 stints in the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) of the heart and he is doing well. He has a product in his artery now called Xience V, an Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System. These are medicated stents to help keep the body from sealing them off. He will be on Plavex for a year - Dr. Kenwood calls it a super aspirin. 

For the first few hours Jan had some pain and discomfort with his heart that he was not use to which he rated at a pain level of 2. The nurse explained to us that when the vein and heart are not use to the blood flow it can hurt at first until they adjust to the flow.

Smiling through the pain.

By 5:30pm, when Jan had reached the time the doctor had given permission for him to move his legs and get out of bed - the pain had subsided. Here is what you've been waiting for, the Before and After pictures given to us by the doc.

BEFORE
See the arrows (near center of the photo) pointing to the
two blockages in the one artery, one is 90% blocked,
the other was 75%.

AFTER
See the arrows pointing to that nice, wide artery that
looks nothing like the one above - no blockages.

Jan is a great patient. He is cooperative, funny, nice, complementary and talkative. (Yeah, even under stress he is sweet.) He had a great team behind him today. The nurses and other workers brag how great the cardiologist Dr. Kenwood is. The male nurse in charge of taking Jan to surgery and bringing him back to ICU told me before surgery that Dr. Kenwood was so good that Jan would most likely be out in one hour, even if he had a stint. And he called it correctly, two stints and the procedure in one hour. This man is skilled and talented.
I am excited for the support that we will be getting from Dr. Kenwood and the staff at his office. He told us that he is a cardiologist first and surgeon second, he never wants to see Jan on his operating table again. He will give us all the knowledge and support we will need to hopefully keep this from happening again. 

After 5:30pm in recovery, on his way to feeling good.
One question he asked, when is that race I'm signed up for?
Join Jan at the SoJo 5K on 15 Oct 2011.

Jan Angiogram

No exercise this morning, more working early at 5:30am because it is surgery day for Jan again, this time at 10:30am. Dr. Kenwood will be doing the procedure, an angiogram, which he explained to us last week. Very safe, 99.9%.
Now the risks do go up if he finds something and decides to fix it, but we have all the confidence everything will go smoothly. They are doing this to find out where the blockage to the heart is that is causing chest pain when Jan exerts himself. Like the walk pace of a normal person is too much for him.

Jan smiling, ready to dye his heart.

We are at Jordan Valley Medical Center, across the parking lot from our almost surgery experience last week. The gowns and socks aren't as cute over here, and no air-controlled gown with a control for warm or cool. The wi-fi in the waiting room rocks though! Slow, but free. It helps with the patient comfort knowing his family will be entertained.
After we got his designer gown on he had his blood taken, had joke time, played 20 questions, got his IV and then an EKG. He was ready.

Jan acting like he is having fun.

So the hospital joke for the day told to us by a nurse: "Did you see the movie "Constipation?" No. That's because it hasn't been released yet." Aren't you glad you don't work in a hospital. Stay tuned for surgery post.