{"id":691,"date":"2020-02-10T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/?post_type=mec-events&p=691"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:35:43","slug":"the-meltdown-man","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/events\/the-meltdown-man\/","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED<\/font> – The Meltdown Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presentation<\/strong> “The Meltdown Man” \u00a0by Mark Dorrity, an inspirational speaker<\/p>\n

Can you imagine how it feels to get so hot your muscles actually liquefy?<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s exactly what happened to Armadale\u2019s Mark Dorrity almost 30 years ago when he collapsed during a fun-run in Wagga Wagga on a blisteringly hot summer\u2019s day.<\/p>\n

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The media in 1988 dubbed him the \u201cMeltdown Man\u201d because his body temperature had risen to the point that his muscles liquefied and poisoned his kidneys \u2014 a condition called rhabdomyolysis.<\/p>\n

The fit 28-year-old lost half his body weight within months, and when he finally woke from his medically-induced coma, he found he couldn\u2019t move or talk. For a while he was a prisoner in his own body.<\/p>\n

Today Mr Dorrity said he was the only known survivor of the perfect storm that beset his body, which also included a bout of gangrene that resulted in his left leg being amputated, and a rare type of chemical poisoning from his wound dressing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presentation “The Meltdown Man” \u00a0by Mark Dorrity, an inspirational speaker Can you imagine how it feels to get so hot your muscles actually liquefy? That\u2019s exactly what happened to Armadale\u2019s Mark Dorrity almost 30 years ago when he collapsed during a fun-run in Wagga Wagga on a blisteringly hot summer\u2019s day. The media in 1988 dubbed him the \u201cMeltdown Man\u201d … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[11],"class_list":["post-691","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiannursesmemorialcentre.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}