29 February - who can resist posting?

 It's been quite a month.  I'm ok if we don't have another like it for a LONG time!  My back/hip pain is still with me.  The doctor prescribed some medication but it's not working.  The next thing was PT and I'm scheduled to meet with them today.  We'll see how that works!  

The other nasty news is that my wife has been slowing down a lot.  Eventually her doctor suggested going to the ER!  Well, hell!  So we go over there and they immediately put her on some drips and in a couple of hours had her airlifted over to Las Vegas!  Talk about a fun afternoon.  Here's the machine showing her 128 heartbeat while she was lying in the bed.

She's been in the hospital in Vegas for a week now.  They said she had excess fluid in her lungs and worked to drain that.  That took two or three days; then they finally got her to a place where they could address her real problem:  atrial fibrillation or AFib.  It is when your heartbeat is either racing or flashing back and forth between normal and superfast.  She has had a procedure for that and we are hoping she can come home today.  Our daughter came out to see her and is going to bring her home if she gets released.  

All that makes for a fun month.  However, I've been driving into Vegas every day to see her.  It's a lovely drive, going in through the pass over the mountains and coming down is just great going either way.  I'm kind of a close-to-the-speed-limit guy so I mostly stay in the right lane and let the speeders have the left.  There are plenty of speeders for sure.  And plenty of way-too-loud motorcycles.  I did even once get passed by a state patrol cruiser - not blue lights just wanting to get home I guess.  

Here's a photo of a slightly overcast sky.

See, it's not always sunny in Nevada!  No rain of course.  But then we also get views like this.

 Gotta go.  Can't see wifie come home to the mess I've made of the house!  Take care.  Thanks for stopping by and keep washing those hands!

We made it to February!

Well, we've been home for 3 1/2 weeks; pretty much back in the groove and then I did something that caused a pain in my left leg.  I've no idea what happened.  The only thing I did that was unusual was to clean the 4 mirrors in our bathrooms.  They are about 7 feet tall so it is a bit of a stretch to clean them.  Anyway I went to the Urgent Care place and they suggested it was either Radicular pain or Sacroliac joint pain.  I don't know but I'm sure ready for it to be gone!  Saw my doctor yesterday; he was no help at all.  Had a xray taken of my hips.  That was WAY painful; since my injury, whatever it is, my back does not like being straight.  We'll see what else we can do; the doctor suggested Physical Therapy.  That could be torture!

In the rest of our lives; we have a well to provide us with water.  It was leaking somehow before we left on our trip but I figured there would be more time to get it fixed after the trip and that turns out to have been a good decision.  The well guy came out and, yep, found a leak right away.  

 

The well has a concrete foundation that was badly cracked so the well guy put in a new pressure tank away from the foundation so it could be replaced.  It took a few days but a local concrete guy came out and replaced the foundation and now we've had the well guy come back and put the pressure tank where it used to be.  It's just all fun; $1,900 worth of fun but fun.  

California has been getting hit by some storms coming in from the ocean so, of course, we get some too.  In our case it is small amounts of rain; except that this is a desert and we don't get a lot of rain.  When we do get rain weird stuff happens.  Day before yesterday we got 1.14" of rain; yesterday we got .55".  That's about half of our yearly average.  Right here in our part of town we just have wet roads; in other parts they have small lakes on the side of the road and, of course, in the road.  It's funny; we are in a 'flood zone' so our mortgage lender requires that we have flood insurance.  Across the street isn't in the 'flood zone' so they don't need flood insurance.  I'm sure to have whined about that in the past!  When I went to the doctor the fun part was seeing the wild horses visiting our county offices across the street from the doctor.  In the photos you can also see water down at the bottom of the photo.  That's not a river, it's the road full of water in front of the office!

Oh, and we've had a few birds coming through on their migration to somewhere.  That bird feeder isn't going to do it for all those guys!

That's all that's going on here in the fast lane.  Take care & keep washing those hands!