Have you ever made
plans that just didn’t live up to your expectations? Even vacations have bumps
when things don’t go your way. Our last vacation ...
In Florida, every time
I lay down, my sinuses immediately plugged up and I was soon mouth breathing.
My cpap mask only covers my nose, so it was no help.
John had signed up to
march in Disney’s StarWars weekend parades. He was up at 6 AM that first Friday
in severe pain and unable to bend one knee. I took him to ‘urgent care’...
which didn’t open until 8. He had to scoot in and out of the back, with the leg
stretched along the seat. It was gout; they prescribed steroids and ice packs. (He
did get to march the next day, and for the rest of the parades while we were
there.)
To see the parade, I
had to be at the gate by 7:30 (one never knew what time they were going to let
people in), rush to one of the (2) benches along the parade route and park
myself. The parade happened at 11. The humid heat did nothing for my stuffy sinuses.
I got a page written
for my ‘Mac’ serial, but Open Office kept crashing and finally refused to open
my ‘Mac’ file again. Unable to think, having no OO specialist to consult, I
gave up. John, however, got his 2nd novel rewritten (2nd draft).
I finally let John
take me to ‘urgent care’, and I waited 3 hours to see a doc. Then the pharmacy didn’t
have the medicine! Augmentin was on back-order? The doc changed the
prescription. To sulfur pills. My brother has to take sulfur pills. They work,
but not quickly. Another week before I started feeling almost decent.
Friends spent
weekends with us. On the last parade day, as everyone was getting ready, the
wife fell and struck her head. The husband took her to urgent care, so John
went alone to do the parade. Long story short, it was much more than a bump on
the head; she ended up in the hospital for 2 nights before they could go home.
Wednesday, I started
home, stopping to call my mother-in-law to say I was on my way. She had been
taken to the hospital that morning. Frantic phone calls and text messages
dogged me all the way home.
Thursday, the radio talked
about severe rain and some flooding ‘in Missouri and along the Mississippi.’ I
was in Illinois, about to turn west to St Louis. I called my son and asked him
to research this, in case I needed to continue north and go through Des Moines.
He said it was located south of I70 (the road I would travel).
East St Louis, Friday
morning, heavy rain. Happily, the worst was over by the time I left St Louis.
But EVERY river and creek I crossed was definitely over its banks! Like I wasn’t
nervous enough.
NOT a good vacation. It
wasn’t a bump, it was a series of steep cliffs the entire time. I suppose there’s
bound to be a bad one every so often, right? But I haven’t given up; we plan to
head for Washington (state) and an Alaska cruise in August. Hmm. Maybe it’s good
we got this ‘bad luck’ over during this vacation.
