I screamed like a Girl

On Thursday morning I screamed like a girl; in labor, so my wife says, on and off for 4 hours.  I was ashamed to be screaming, but like the woman above, the pain of a dislocated shoulder, until it is re-positioned, is... indescribable. Three different maximum pain killers, including morphine, and I was still praying and more than groaning when I went under anesthetic for the procedure. And when I woke up, the pain was... gone.

I'm improving a little daily, though I have some nerve damage I'm getting looked at next week. But an interesting question has been posed since my fall on our driveway's black ice.  What will we do when we are in the middle of the Canadian Tundra, literally a hundred miles or more from the next human being, and I fall again, or fall headfirst into the battery compartment setting up our outdoor TV (our cell reception power boosters will get us Netflix, we are told, on the Tundra), or Mona receives a massive paper cut from one of her sharply written crime thrillers? What will we do?  We'll turn to Good Sam.

For $80.00 a year, only a bit more than we pay now for Southern Berks County EMS, we have complete worldwide coverage for ambulance, RV return to base location, passenger accommodations till home, and, if needed, air ambulance transport to the nearest qualified facility.

Worldwide.  For $80.00 for both of us.  For a year.  I'd pay twice that for the helicopter ride any time!

If I didn't have to be screaming in pain all during the ride.

But them I did get the sirens when the EMT's took me to Pottstown Hospital on Thursday, so that was cool.

-Ken

Snow bound preparations

So much of America and Canada are snow or ice bound by now that a picture like this one almost attracts no attention.  Except for the family who are trying to show the house to prospective buyers!  Can you believe, we've had three showings so far in these conditions? No serious interest, but showings, nonetheless.

The other thing this family (Mona and I, if you haven't guessed) are held up doing by the super cold and numerous storms (another due this Thursday, say the forecasters) is the work our wonderful mechanics would like to get started on with the coach.  However they can't.  Their work is getting backed up all over the place and while they have numerous bays for cars there is only one something the size of our Alpine can fit in.

So what do you do when the cold forces constant changes to your plans? You get proactive!

The items we have been ordering to add to the coach are coming in and we are adding them now instead of later. Like the 50amp, 30 foot extension cord we ordered because it's 60 feet, not 30, from the coach cable connect to our new exterior garage wall 50amp receptacle. Hey, we just may need it to run from our boondock (deep country, no hookups, dry camping, FREE site) in the Mojave Desert to the breaker box back in Twentynine Palms!

And the large screen Rand McNally GPS that will help us avoid those deadly low overpasses.




The Warm Home wall mounted 3D electric fire & space heater might come in handy even down south when the temp is just a touch chilly but too warm for the furnace. Technology has come a far cry from the 40 watt bulb in a slow turning colored paper wheel.

And for those times when you need to talk to the person guiding you back along the edge of that cliff...

...there's nothing like a pair of Cobra walkie-talkies good to 23 miles in the open with 22 channels to choose from. "STOPPPP!!!" will be much more understandable if heard rather than only seen in the side mirror.

And then there's OLD SCHOOL.  Once upon a time I was 'Drummer Boy' and my 10-20 was the open road.  Well, if we ever get caught somewhere with the cell tower's down and no one in walkie-talkie range however will we order a pizza?  CB RADIO!

Thanks to our Good Buddy and Brother-in-Law Larry Crum we now have a CB antenna to put on the roof next to the FM radio, TV digital, TV Satelite, Cell Phone whip antennas.  I wonder if they'll all talk to each other while we are asleep?

I guess the only thing I need to buy yet is a... hat.

Home comes home

Quo Vadis arrived home this afternoon from D & D Collision in Pottstown after receiving superior care on the damage I had done to her 3 weeks ago and a round of minor touch-ups on door edges and each of the basement door latches.  I had wanted to have them buff and polish her front end but she's got a clear poly rock shield that would have had to come off and be replaced so we agreed she looks just fine as is.

She was to have gone straight to McGrath's Garage for the upgrades and tweaks we have planned but the snow storm yesterday, more tonight, and an even bigger one forecast for the weekend will keep her in our driveway RV parking space till next week. But with the 50 amp outdoor receptacle Audrey Dunekack installed we can hook up electric heat inside when we need it. Uh oh.  Don't tell Mona that.  I'd like to sleep inside for awhile yet!

Oh, the little sign almost covered by snow in our front yard???  Yes, the house listed with Brian Kelly of Gilbertsville yesterday, and it's first showing is this evening already, snow or not.

The journey continues!

-Ken