A lot has happened since I last wrote, some good and some bad. The bad first.
The very next day after the cardiologist in St. Augustine said I was good to go I had a dizzy episode while adjusting the air conditioning temperature. I laid down on the couch in hopes that it would go away but it didn’t. In fact, it got much worse and to top that off I started having a hard time breathing. Well that really got my attention and scared me some so Joyce called 911.
When the med tech’s got there and did their assessment, they recommended I go to the hospital. It’s funny, when they got me up from the couch I immediately started to feel better but we decided to make the hospital trip anyway.
When I got to the Emergency Room at Putnam County Hospital, the nurses got me hooked up to several monitors and started an IV. A few minutes later Dr. Zabad came in and ordered blood tests. He said my heart rate was really low which didn’t make him or me happy. And, my blood pressure was high as well. He also sent me down for a chest x-ray.
After Dr. Z got the blood test results and after analyzing all the other stuff going on, he decided to admit me for more testing. So, off I go to the ICCU where I was put on oxygen along with more sticking and poking.
Later, along comes a neurologist who ordered a CAT scan so I had another ride downstairs to the CAT lab. Later, the neurologists comes back and said that I had “significant” calcium buildup in the arteries that go up to the brain and then proceeded to tell me what my options are, none of them good. He decided to do another CAT scan, this time using dye to get a better look at the arteries. He came back later in the evening and said that the new CAT results were much better and that the buildup wasn’t nearly as bad as he thought after the first test. Yay!!!
I also saw another cardiologist who is also a member of the First Coast Heart and Vascular Institute who did all of the work on me before. He looked at my charts and told me he was going to recommend to Dr. Z a change in my medications.
So, after two nights and the next day, the doctors finally let me go. They took me off of two of my meds I have been taking for several years and put me on a new one. Then during the followups in their offices another new drug was added.
That is the bad stuff so here is the good times.
On March 12th we drove down to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL to spend the night before our cruise to the Caribbean.
The next morning we boarded Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas which happens to be the largest cruise ship in the world at the present time. Harmony of the Seas in presently in sea trials which will eclipse Allure buy a few feet. Our trip took us to Labadee, Hati (RC’s private resort), Falmouth, Jamaica and Cozumel, Mexico.
The Allure is huge! We were on her for seven days and didn’t see all of her but we did try. When we wanted to be in the back of the ship it seamed like we were always in the front and vice-versa for the back. And of course that happened several times a day so we did get some exercise just walking back and forth.
This cruise was all about the ship and since we had been to all of the ports before, we only got off twice and for very short times. We did a little shopping in Falmouth and Cozumel but other than that we just enjoyed the Allure.
The Allure is huge!
Time to get the party started!
Labadee, Hati
Falmouth, Jamacia
Cozumel, Mexico
Here comes Liberty of the Seas
The Captain turned her around and backed her in just slicker than heck.
Joyce cleans up really good!
March 17, 2016
On Tuesday night we went to the St. Augustine Amphitheater to see a production of the Lion King with Michelle, Abigail and Skyler. The play was fantastic but it was a sad evening as well as we had to say goodbye to them. We had a wonderful winter spending time with our family and of course we were sad to leave them. Sniff, sniff.
Yesterday morning we hooked up our towd, jumped on highway 100 and headed toward Quincy, FL, our first stop on our way west. We pulled into the Beaver Lake Campground about 3 PM, not a “destination” park by any stretch of the imagination but for $20 a night, it works. We’ll be leaving here this morning headed to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, AL where we will spend two nights.
Well that is more than I had intended to write. More later.
Barry & Joyce
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