Saturday,
March 22nd
through Thursday, March 27th
Either the
smoking environment in Laughlin or the March Madness Marathon got
Duffy down. On Saturday, he mustered up just enough energy to watch
SDSU Aztecs rout their opponent, and has been sick ever since with a
nasty chest cold. Sunday through today he has spent either sleeping,
reading, or taking short birding walks here in the park. It's times
like this that our Baby Beluga gets mighty small.
On Satuday, Duffy
decided it was time to do something about the flashing lights he'd
been seeing inside his left eye, followed by an organized cluster of
floaters. After at least an hour trying to connect and on the phone
with the Group Health (our Washington HMO) consulting nurse, he was
advised to call Kaiser Urgent Care. Then after what seemed like
another hour, he managed to make an appointment with Urgent Care at
8:30am Sunday.
His chest cold
was just coming on, so getting up early was not as difficult as it
would become in following days. Looking back, this was the most
painless urgent care visit either one of us has every experienced. No
waiting – Duffy's was the first appointment for the assigned doctor
that morning. The doctor, an M.D. was careful to include both of us
in his assessment, and very caring. Amazingly, he called an
opthalmologist an call who was on call that weekend, and learned she
was just on her way in to see two other patients anyway. It did not
take long to be seen, since Duffy was already there and the other
patients had not yet arrived. Wow! The verdict: floaters forming in
his eye, good that he came in because the same cause can lead to
detached lining or detached retina. She checked his other eye that
his doctor at home has been watching, and found it to be stable.
So...great relief!
The rest of the
week has been spent at Santee Lakes, with occasional trips for me to
the store. We are fortunate to be very close to a Sprouts Farmers
Market for fresh and gluten free foods, a Starbucks for coffee
(almost daily), a Walgreens for medicinals and incidentals, and a
Costco for gas. Everything is within a few blocks. Oh, and did I
forget a favorite spot of ours, the Friends of the Library Used Book
Store, a full store of already-read books from library patrons and
supporters. Oh, and also within just a few blocks o9f us there is a
great little Mexican restaurant we discovered by accident when we
were looking for a quick and casual meal out. This is not your remote
kind of camping.
I have had time
to go through photos I've taken and make some collages which I've
conveniently ordered from the Walgreens just a couple of turns from
here. I've been wanting to supply some family photos to my Aunt
Bonnie, my mother's only sister, for a long time now. Bonnie lives in
her home in El Cajon, and I hope to visit her today with photos in
hand. She loves to read books she can hold, and look at photos
printed on photo paper. Bonnie is very easy to gift.
Tonight we, or I,
will go to Skip and Susan's to watch the SDSU game against Arizona –
they beat Gonzaga on Sunday (I followed the scores online while I
struggled to find a way to watch the game online. Duffy might have
enjoyed the diversion from sleeping, coughing, reading, sleeping,
coughing, etc.)
We had to cancel
our scheduled visit on Wednesday with Duffy's cousin Linda and her husband Chuck in San Clemente due to his miserable cold, and are hoping he is well enough, and not
contagious, to go tomorrow. I will report on the success of the trip
in my next posting.
Until next
time...Pam and Duffy
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