Goodbye Summer

Goodness! I blinked and it was August.

I have had some complications over the past month that currently in the process of getting sorted out. Don't worry! I'm still in Remission and doing better this week, but hit a few road blocks over the past two weeks. In the month of July I had two unplanned trips to the EC when concerns arose that I may have Stevens-Johnson's Disease or Hypersensitivity Syndrome as a result of my Dilantin. Unfortunately those two trips to the EC yielded no answers and only more frustrations and now I am in the process of finding a new neurologist. To be frank, it has been a long time coming as I have been less than pleased with the group of neurologists I have been seeing at TTU Physicians. Now I understand what my patient's are going through when dealing with this department and let me tell you, it is an absolute mess. On top of that, I am learning from other doctor's offices that the frustrations are carried over into their departments as well. I am just happy to be able to put that poor experience behind me and move forward to a new doctor who will help me to return to a higher quality of life with less complaints. What concerns me the most is those patient's who do not have a means to access other health care providers and do not have the ability to travel out of town to seek the appropriate care they need. I hope improvements are made in the very near future because I couldn't imagine care like being considered a standard or acceptable to ANYONE.

On a more positive note. I am currently vacationing with my family in Dillon, Colorado. We will be here through the end of the week and I am enjoying getting away from the Texas heat. We drove up to Las Vegas, New Mexico on Friday and stayed at the Historic Plaza hotel in downtown. It was a nice hotel, but they had a lot of issues with overbooking and even messed up our reservation. Thankfully they corrected the issue and comped us one room, but that didn't keep us from having to sleep two people to a full size bed.

Saturday morning, we woke up and headed out to Denver, Colorado to meet up with Jeramy's cousin Zach and another friend of my parents. We ended up eating at a delicious joint downtown called Steuben's, which was fantastic!!! I encountered my first moscow mule beverage and I'm hooked. We stayed downtown at the Embassy Suites and had a fantastic stay, with the exception of Sunday morning when someone burned their toast at breakfast and set off the hotel smoke detector's which resulted in the entire hotel having to be evacuated.

Sunday we met up with Zach for lunch and then hit the road to Dillon. We checked in to our 3 bedroom townhouse only to discover someone had left their clothes and cooler in the house and it didn't look as if they had left it accidentally. As it turns out, a gentlemen who had been participating in the Regatta on Lake Dillon was under the impression that he still had the house reserved for one more night, so when he showed up later that evening and rang the doorbell, we had to call the reservation office to get things sorted out. It turned out that the management company had messed up his reservation and they had to find him another house for the remainder of his stay.

Monday we went down and explored the Dillon Marina and did a bit of shopping at the Outlets at Silverthorne. We did some additional grocery shopping to carry us through the week and then called it an evening and spent some time in the hot tub. We did a lot of walking activity and amazingly I did very well with very little issue of not feeling well. It felt really good to get out and breathe fresh air and get some sun. Mom was almost bedridden most of the day as she encountered a nasty bout of Altitude Sickness, but she was able to get out later in the afternoon and explore the city with Jeramy and I.

Today I woke up and did some yoga and then Jeramy, mom and myself ventured over to the city of Frisco Marina and Jeramy and I kayaked on Lake Dillon. We also went to explore the city center, which was full of cute shops and fun places to explore. I was a little nervous how the day was going to go, but it ended up being a total success and I felt great the whole time we were out.

Jeramy will be leaving to return back home tomorrow and I will stay with my parents for the remainder of the week and return home this weekend. There are so many little cities to visit and while I have been to quite a few of them, I am eager to explore some of the ones I have not been able to spend much time at in the past. Being up in the mountains makes me miss living in Colorado and I am happy to have the opportunity to visit frequently to see family and old friends.

NAMASTE Friends!