We are beginning to try and get organized for the trip to Florida for which we leave on October 25. Our medical checkups went well in general but we did have a couple of unexpected surprises.
Cathy had another tumble, but this time from her trike about a month ago and felt a little sore, but thought it would pass. But it didn't. She awoke at 1:00 am about 3 weeks ago with intense pain in her side. So she had a ride in the ambulance to Hershey Medical Center where it was determined she had 5 cracked ribs this time! So she has been on a regimen of pain killers and rest and is just now getting back to near normal. To avoid a group of bikers coming toward her, she drove into a ditch that she did not see and that caused the tricycle to topple and dump her on her side. She has a followup appointment tomorrow with the Trauma Team.
We have both now met our new primary care doctor and we both like him so far. He made some suggestions to Cathy to quit using extra vitamins and supplements she has been taking for years. His reasoning is the Centrum Silver we take has all the needed vitamins and in the proper dosages. The extras only create "expensive urine". She does continue with Calcium and Vitamin D3 as a consequence of her osteopenia.
Larry has been having pains in his left shoulder such that he was unable to sleep in bed but only in the recliner which allowed his arm to be elevated. Dr. Riley ordered an x-ray which revealed good old ArthurItis! He scheduled an ultrasound guided steroid injection which was done last Thursday. The pain is greatly reduced and he is sleeping in the bed again!
We are watching the progress of the flood waters in South Carolina as our planned route takes us through Columbia with an overnight stop there. Hopefully the Interstates will not be affected too long and we can proceed as planned.
We are waiting for the RV Techs to come and set this Fifth Wheel Camper on concrete blocks to reduce the shake and wobble we get when walking around. It results because the unit is resting on the tires so blocking it off the tires should stop the rock and roll.
So on to the pictures. We had a nice day to take our annual "Family" pictures and so I will post those first.
Here we have the happy senior citizens standing
just in back of their summer digs.
The children, Laura, Kendalyn and Randy.
Hydro is well behaved and got in the photo.
Laura and Kendalyn who is in the 7th grade this year.
Below is her First Day in 7th Grade Photo.
Randy and Hydro
Dixie loves to look out the window toward the lake
And at the end of a hard day of vigilance, this is her favorite pose!
We took a day trip to Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area about 20 miles from us. It is famous for its over wintering flocks of Snow Geese and other migratory birds. In recent years as many as 100,000 snow geese, 10,00 tundra swans, 10,000 Canada geese, and a wide variety of ducks have stopped at Middle Creek en route to their breeding grounds to the north. But in late summer there are only a handful of resident birds.
Above is an Egret hunting the shallows for lunch and below is a Great Blue Heron doing much the same.
Closer to home we have been enjoying smaller birds at our feeders. By now the Hummingbirds have departed, but the finches, chickadees and tufted titmouse and nuthatches are still greedily eating all we put out.
The Downy Woodpecker is a frequent visitor too and seems to think the dead branch I erected as a perch for photos is a good source of bugs!
The Downy also digs for sunflower seeds in the feeder.
The American Goldfinch is always stunning to see in the sunlight.
A local House Spider constructed this web on our awning supports and I was able to get this amazing picture! And below is the constructor in chief. We had to put the awning up in a recent storm and so this is all gone now.
Well that is about all I have for now. Probably the next post I make will be after we get settled in in Orlando early next month. Thanks for looking!
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