Wow -it's been a while - but that's cuz I was Sick.

Never believe this but 3 days before I was to leave for Mayo Clinic, I was finisihing a river rock pathway on the north side of our house. The Riverrock had been delivered 3 years ago and sat there idle. Well, I figured it was high time that I finish the pathway started by the landscapers three years ago. In kneeling on the grassed over rock pile to sort out the river rocks I got bit by a scorpion on my right knee. Didn't notice much at first. I put ice on it the first night, thinking I sprained my knee, no help. The third day,just before we were to leave to go Mayo Clinic, Holli took me to the Seaton/Cedar Park new Hospital on July4th. I was the only patient. Diagnosed with Celluliotis of the knee via spider (scorpion) bite. I was given an IV drip and given Levaquin to take orally on the way to Mayo/Rochesther Clinic. Some how the pressurization of the Airplane caused the infection to accelerate. When I arrived at Mayo on Monday I had memory tests and brain challenge quizes all afternoon -then off to ER of St. Mary's at Mayo. 4:30pm- what a cattle call- seems everyone in Rochester gets sick on a Holiday weekend. At 11pm I finallly got a room in Hospital after another IV drip. I also saw an Orthopeed, if you are ever sick you want to be sick at the Mayo Clinic. Tons of specialists. I had infectious disease docs, internal med docs and ER fighting over me. Wow, this place is a Taj Mahal of medicine. Anyway after 3 days of in patient in the old Domatella wing, I was released to the Genarose Bldg. where the 3rd floor is reserved for "lock down" and the "Mood Disorder Clinic". More news later. But I'm safe and getting healthy. My elphantitis right leg is now down and all I have to show is swollen knee, a knee brace and lots of pain pills (mostly vicodan) and tons of different IV anti-biotics. Uninsom, Something with an "S", Levaqen, and more. I feel like a pin cushion, with more blood being drawn than I ever thought I had. More news later.