Since my mother-in-laws heart problem became a part of this trip I thought I might post my little rush to CA report here....
Well it all started last week when my mother-in-law went to here eldest daughter's last weekend in Fountain Valley, CA. for the weekend and then to my eldest daughter's to meet my wife and RocksForBrains for Thankgiving while I stayed in Mesa and worked. Things didn't turn out as we would have planned but some of it was good must most was bad!
Once my mother-in-law arrived at my daughters she started having severe chest pains on Tues and was taken to the hospital so my wife loaded up early and took off for Yucca Valley since she is her primary care giver and would be responsible for all decisions if she became incapacitated and could not make them for herself. Anyways she ended up being transfered to Palms Springs and it looked like she was headed to open heart surgery so my wife called me and wanted me to come out just in case things went sour. So on Fri. I worked until Midnight and headed for CA for a 8:00a meeting with here Dr. I arrived in Yucca in time for a 2 hr. nap before heading into Palms Springs to discuss Granny's options with him. After learning that her left, right and middle aortas were 75% blocked he told us the options of a stints, bypass or managed care and that stints were not an option due to the location of the blockage once cleared would not allow stints since the stints would basically re-block the left and right aorta's and in fact would kill here so that was out. Next would be open heart and bypass, which would fix that problem but may create other issues that would lead to bigger problems. So since she was stable it was decided to get her home with managed care and hope for the best and if the blockage gets to 90% we would have to re-evaluate the situation.
This was concluded by lunch and we decided to move her home to on Sunday (today) which we have safely accomplished at this time, but lets back-track to Sat. and after the meeting, since I had the remainder of the day open once we got Granny back to my daughters in Yucca Valley it dawned on me that I was about 30 min. away from the Hammer's and my club just happened to be camping at Soggy Lake in Johnson Valley. So off I went to visit with my fellow club members and sit by the campfire with them. I had a great visit with what was left of them and they treated me to canned Chilli and Raviolio's
We sat around and talked about the fun we've had and that I will stay in touch and continue to try and get out on runs with them in the future. Wish I could have gotten out to Mean's and hooked up with some of you but I just flat ran out of time, maybe next time.
