What a Ride!

Weekend Rally

We left Lake Charles on Friday and drove to Red Oak Ranch RV in Hempstead, Texas. Our Lonestar Allegro Club rally started on Friday and we had 9 rigs attending. We had a great time at the rally. I couldn’t enjoy any of the rally food, because I am still on the liquid diet until this Thursday.

When we were parking our rig we drove down through one of the streets to our site and there was a man unhitching his 5th wheel. He mistakenly left the Dodge 3500 in drive, so when he unhitched the trailer, the truck moved forward into the street as we were passing. His truck caught the driver’s side of our Saturn tow vehicle knocking off the right rear panel and dented up the plastic bumper.

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I put some of it back together with sheet metal screws. The crash also cut 2 wires going to the left rear light. I spliced the 2 wires back together and the light worked fine.

I think my repairs will work until we can get it repaired. An insurance adjuster is supposed to call today, but I haven’t heard from anyone yet.

We left Red Oak Ranch today and drove to Conroe KOA in Hempstead, Texas about an hour away from Red Oak Ranch. Sue sold 5 signs this last weekend at our Allegro Rally, so she will be busy. Now I have to cut some more boards, so after lunch we drove into Conroe and got another sheet of plywood from Lowe’s, Sue bought some more paint from Hobby Lobby and we stopped by the 99cent store.

I am worn out from all that, so I will tackle cutting the signs out of the sheet of plywood tomorrow. We have a few days before the Texas Boomers rally starts this Friday, so I will spend it cutting out the signs, sanding them and priming them. Sue will keep busy fill those orders!

I also want to report that I am now at 241 lbs. I needed to get to 243 lbs for listing on the transplant list, so after I get clearance from my laparoscopic surgeon on Thursday I should be marked as “active” on the lung transplant list! Yippee!

Until next time!

Back in Lake Charles

I got out of Methodist Hospital on Friday (my birthday) as planned. Our friends, Richard and Nancy (see previous post from Astros game) came by and picked us up on Saturday. They wanted to show us another less expensive RV park down Hwy 288 that we might want to stay at when the time comes for the transplant. We checked out Almost Heaven RV park and then went by their house to see it and visit a little bit more. They have a beautiful home and Richard is a big Astros and baseball fan in so that he has memorabilia room set up in their house. It was awesome!!! I took pictures for our oldest grandson, Trevor, who is also a big Astros and baseball fan. After visiting they drove us over to Los Tios Mexican restaurant, which is their favorite Mexican restaurant. They all ordered straight from the menu, while I asked them to strain the tortilla soup and just give me the broth. They did that and it was good!

Today, Mother’s Day, we drove back to Lake Charles in the motorhome. Sue wanted to spend a little time at her parents and all of our kids and grandkids came by to visit. It was a short, but good visit.

After lunch around 1:15 we left and drove out to my cousin Paula’s house. They were having bar-b-q and had invited us over. So some of my cousins and their mom (my Aunt) was also there. We had a great visit with these cousins and Aunt.

I think I did too much today, because I was really tired. I hadn’t taken any pain medication since 9:00PM the night before. Well no big pain medication! I had taken a extra strength Tylenol around 5:00 AM, but that was it!

I was completely worn out, so I will try to take it a little easier tomorrow.

Still trying to get use to this full liquid diet! What a pain! I have to stay on this diet until my follow up appointment on May 24th. in Houston. I don’t think they have me as active on the transplant list until they get the clearance from the doctor who did the laparoscopic surgery. I also still need to lose a few more pounds. I will know how many more, when I weigh myself tomorrow morning.

Until next time!