May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 6

[HollyTyler]

I'm sure Godoux is having a GREAT day.

And the weather here was absolutely beautiful for her and her family! It was almost 80 degrees and sunny all day. Well, Ann Arbor is about an hour away from me, but I can't imagine the weather would have been much different there than here.

 

[nskjerven]

we're having STEAK for dinner. Paul is bbqueing (is there an e in that word, is that a word?)

Deb, sorry you are still hurting.

 

[HollyTyler]

The zoo was awesome. We were only there for a little over an hour. the second Saturday of every month they have an early entry called Hour with a Keeper for donor level members. It's great - usually they have one or two enclosures where they are doing extra enrichment activities witht the animals. One month we got to go in the Giraffe's quarters. this month was Children's zoo - so in the little thater there they brought out 4 different animal ambassador's to learn about today.

First up Indian Crested Porcupine -

Next Diego the Ocelot -

then a Milk Snake -

and finally a Chinchilla -

If anyone has extra time after the cruise I strongly recommend a trip to the San Diego Zoo (about 1hr 45 min from LA).

What cute animals! (And Richard, the guy holding the snake, is cute too)! I've always loved chinchillas.....SO SOFT!

 

[nskjerven]

we bought some sucker bags to suck some of our linen closet stuff to make stuff fit better in it. I hate the linen closet, it's always a mess. anyone used them before? my sister took some to China and I used them on the way home with dirty laundry, they were great. Big space savers.

 

[HollyTyler]

Here are a couple of pics from our last trip up to DL 2 weeks ago. We finally made it out to the new Pirate's Lair Island. They've added some nifty new pirates things there.

Darrell

Me

SUPER COOL!!!!

 

[disneylover5]

Lisa: How'd she get it? I know that sounds like a duh question, but is it around anywhere you would be concerned about?

We have an acre here in Fairfax County and it is all over my yard. Remember I told you guys they have been playing manhunt, well it has been at my house because we have such a large lot. So no, I am not concerned about that at all. I do feel very sorry for her having it on her face and nowhere else.

I bet she won't be playing manhunt anymore!!

She wants to go to church tomorrow morning with us and then to youth group tomorrow night.

We taped her room tonight and she is painting the primer tonight. Gretchen was helping her.....but she is tired.

 

[HollyTyler]

Good Morning...I just woke up....The visiting nurse came today to wrap the legs and it was a lengthy and taxing process....All the paperwork and trying to get her to understand my degree of pain and what I would and would not do. She had orders from the doctor and needed to stick to them. She wanted me to scrub the legs today. I said not today. They still hurt so much from last Tuesday's experience. I said I soaked each of them today in Hibiclens (surgical cleansing solution) and that's all I was doing until they stopped hurting again. She almost walked out on me. Why is it so difficult for me to protect myself against procedures with the level of pain that I have? Finally she wrapped the legs, all went well and someone will be back on Monday. I may have to go through this all over again with another person. Great!

After she left I was supposed to do the walk through at mom's house with my brother, but just could not. I hurt too much and took a pain killer and went to sleep. Tomorrow is another day, I'll do the walk through then.

Deb, I'm so glad you slept a bit today. Lots of rest is something you need to keep trying to do.

 

[HollyTyler]

Well, we had quite an adventure today. Vanessa got up at noon and the rash had spread more. It was behind her ear and it really started looking like poison ivy to me. She had never even heard of that.

We studied her insurance and decided on Urgent Care. We went and her insurance was fine, but they would not accept the faxed copy of her parents permission to treat. They said it had to be an original. The administrator decided that if we could get her mom or dad on the phone, then they would accept permission to treat over the phone. They were pretty nice but had to follow the rules. Well, I knew her mom was on some island with her cousins on vacation and her dad was teaching a photography class in Northern Norway at a resort. We came home and got her phone card and started calling. We got her dad out of dinner at the resort and he said we could go back to the Urgent care and he would wait for us to call back to give permission.

That went all smoothly and they gave permission and after all those hours....she had poison ivy!!

They gave her some steriods and hydrocortizone cream and benedryl at night. She should get better soon.

Poison ivy! Poor Vanessa!

 

[HollyTyler]

I think a few people on ebay are out of their minds! A handful of Tyler's toys (Jay Jay the Jet Plane) are now up to $25.50! I didn't think there was anything special about them, unless I'm missing something. I'm starting to wonder if they've been discontinued or something.

 

[Jhalkias]

21 years last May for us.
We first saw one another on 13 Dec 1985, first spoke on the 18th, DH proposed on the 23rd, and we got married on 17 May 1986.
My father (and probably many other people) said it wouldn't last.
22 years for us during this cruise too.
My DH says you don't get that long for murder!

You guys got married the weekend before us in 1986. We were married on the 24th. It was Memorial Day weekend here - 3 day holiday weekend.

Tell your DH it is a life sentence!

 

[disneylover5]

Tech is really playing bad. Oh my

 

[Jhalkias]

I'm sure Godoux is having a GREAT day.

Ohio State on the Big Ten network, so no college football on TV for me today. Listened on the radio while I did some cleaning.

Just went to the ESPN.com scoreboard . . . WOW - the mighty have fallen AGAIN!

Can you spell OVER RATED?

GO DUCKS!

 

[birkner]

Good Morning...I just woke up....The visiting nurse came today to wrap the legs and it was a lengthy and taxing process....All the paperwork and trying to get her to understand my degree of pain and what I would and would not do. She had orders from the doctor and needed to stick to them. She wanted me to scrub the legs today. I said not today. They still hurt so much from last Tuesday's experience. I said I soaked each of them today in Hibiclens (surgical cleansing solution) and that's all I was doing until they stopped hurting again. She almost walked out on me. Why is it so difficult for me to protect myself against procedures with the level of pain that I have? Finally she wrapped the legs, all went well and someone will be back on Monday. I may have to go through this all over again with another person. Great!

After she left I was supposed to do the walk through at mom's house with my brother, but just could not. I hurt too much and took a pain killer and went to sleep. Tomorrow is another day, I'll do the walk through then.

You have had the most terrible luck with supposedly caring medical professionals. I can not imagine why these people don't have any caring skills when they have chosen a healing profession. Clearly, there are both in the wrong profession. Here is hoping that the future will bring some truly caring professionals into helping you cope with this illness.

 

[HollyTyler]

I have a doc appointment Tuesday after work to finally ask for a prescription to take for the migraines that slip past my preventative meds. They're a very rare occurrence, but when I do get one I'm basically non-functional for 3 days. Can't afford to miss work and can't miss school. This last one was so bad that all night long while trying to sleep, every time my head throbbed, my whole body winced in pain. That was borderline almost as bad as the ones I used to get in my late 20s that were so bad I had to go to urgent care and get a shot of a narcotic to make it go away. I've done that 4 times in my life and definitely can't afford to do that now. SO, hopefully I'll get something that will help! When I was a teenager I would be cowering in the corner in pain from migraines and my mom would give me Tylenol with codeine to make it go away. Awful thing to deal with because you never know when one will pop up.

ANYWAY, my point about going to the doctor is that I'll get weighed! I'm hoping my weight loss ticker will move in the right direction, but am a bit nervous because I've been giving in to bad cravings for a week. But none of my clothes feel tighter, so I should be fine. Can't wait!

 

[birkner]

Well, we had quite an adventure today. Vanessa got up at noon and the rash had spread more. It was behind her ear and it really started looking like poison ivy to me. She had never even heard of that.

We studied her insurance and decided on Urgent Care. We went and her insurance was fine, but they would not accept the faxed copy of her parents permission to treat. They said it had to be an original. The administrator decided that if we could get her mom or dad on the phone, then they would accept permission to treat over the phone. They were pretty nice but had to follow the rules. Well, I knew her mom was on some island with her cousins on vacation and her dad was teaching a photography class in Northern Norway at a resort. We came home and got her phone card and started calling. We got her dad out of dinner at the resort and he said we could go back to the Urgent care and he would wait for us to call back to give permission.

That went all smoothly and they gave permission and after all those hours....she had poison ivy!!

They gave her some steriods and hydrocortizone cream and benedryl at night. She should get better soon.

Poor Vanessa!! However, I am glad that ALL that is wrong is poision ivy. It will make a great story to tell in later years!!

 

[HollyTyler]

You have had the most terrible luck with supposedly caring medical professionals. I can not imagine why these people don't have any caring skills when they have chosen a healing profession. Clearly, there are both in the wrong profession. Here is hoping that the future will bring some truly caring professionals into helping you cope with this illness.

Ditto! Deb's whole experience with that mean doc and now this nurse is giving me ideas on what topic I'd like to consider for the 10 page paper I have to write for my Health Law class. We have to choose 2 topics relating to health issues, NOT required to be legal issues, so I'm thinking of researching peoples' experiences with being treated poorly, whether the patients report the docs, what (if any) consequences result, etc. It's not fully formed in my mind yet, but just tossing ideas around so far.

 

[birkner]

we're having STEAK for dinner. Paul is bbqueing (is there an e in that word, is that a word?)

Deb, sorry you are still hurting.

I always have spelled it bar-b-que. Just my thoughts.....

 

[LisaG520]

You have had the most terrible luck with supposedly caring medical professionals. I can not imagine why these people don't have any caring skills when they have chosen a healing profession. Clearly, there are both in the wrong profession. Here is hoping that the future will bring some truly caring professionals into helping you cope with this illness.

I totally agree. I would expect people who work at a Wound Care facility to be exceptionally aware of pain management as well since they go hand-in-hand (at least to me).

And whatever happened to good old fashioned empathy?!

Deb - hope Monday's nurse is better!

 

[nskjerven]

I always have spelled it bar-b-que. Just my thoughts.....

ya, but how do you spell it in slang

 

[nskjerven]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dooming showing now...what's going on with the rest of the gang tonight?