Yesterday we headed to Denver a little after 5am. With traffic up Vail Pass, we made it to the dealer around 7:30 to drop Lori’s car for service. Ty called thinking we were still home around 6am to see if Lori could make him breakfast. He still didn’t sound good with his cold.
For the past two days I did everything I could to stay away from him. I washed my hands 20 times or more after touching anything I thought he might have touched. I told Lori, “just watch, he’s going to get one of us sick and then whoever gets it first will get the other of us sick”. Well, I think he got us! Not sure which of us has it worse, time will tell. We both slept from 7pm last night to 6:30am this morning. By the way, Ty lasted about 45 minutes or an hour at work yesterday before he had to come home. We bought all kinds of chicken soup, cough medicine, cough drops, cough syrup and every fluid for hydration, that Whole Foods had. I haven’t seen him yet this morning as he’s in the shower as Lori woke him when we got up. He was supposed to be on the road 10 minutes ago for work. I just have a headache and a stuffed-up nose but Lori has a headache (can’t tell if it’s from Ty or her head), and the cough like Ty’s. We’re downing Vitamin C, Vitamin D and Zinc trying to fend it off. Time will tell. We figure we’ll know by tonight if he infected us with the crud. Lori’s putting chicken soup in a thermos for Ty right now and I just got him some Alka Seltzer cold medicine, the kind you drop in a glass of water, along with some Tylenol, uggghhh! I knew he’d pass this crap on to one of us! Like I said, only question is which one of us get it first! Think I’ll wear a mask! Hope we didn’t give it to Jagger if we got it. That’s how this crap works, a hug here, a handshake there, then it’s everywhere!
In Denver, after dropping Lori’s car, we went to get my haircut. Phoebe, our friend and hairdresser for 25 years, who almost died a month or so ago, had her hernia operation ten days ago and now feels good. She had a 2% chance of living a few months ago. After that, we went to Jagger’s apartment and then the three of us walked over to this fun restaurant for lunch. We had a really nice time. The weather in Denver was really nice. After lunch we walked around his neighborhood for a while and stopped for an ice cream at Little Man Ice Cream, which is hands down, the best place in all of Colorado. We’d eat ice cream (especially Lori) every day, if we lived that close!
Around 1:30 we went to get her car. $2500 later for the 30,000 mile service, we were on the way home. Lori worked the whole trip home on her computer and phone, and we stopped once at Whole Foods for the aforementioned supplies for Ty. After getting home, we hung out until 7 or so when we fell asleep.
She did get approval from the insurance company for her spec CT scan next Wednesday. After that, Dr. B will know what surgery to do on her neck. She could go in as early as the week after next. This is good news as her neck hurts 24/7 right now.
Meanwhile, our friends, who are a young couple that runs the big ranch in Wyoming, and take care of our horse, has a 5-year-old daughter who has had two sort of like seizures, and can’t get into a neurologist. Lori is on the job pulling in every favor and connection she knows. When it first happened, they went to the ER in Walden, up by the ranch, which has to be nothing more than a small clinic. They should have gone straight to Children’s Hospital in Denver, but they didn’t know. Getting in to see a neurologist is probably the toughest doctor to get in to see. Lori is working on it. She’ll somehow get it done as that’s who she is, she cares!
Our new espresso machine is great! Coffee again is really enjoyable. We’d been drinking instant for months. It’s well worth the $1000 it cost.
7am now, that’s it. Have a great Friday and cross your fingers we kick this crap and can fight it off today. We have our costumes ready for Tom and Holly’s tomorrow, if we don’t get any worse! God Bless.