Steve and Judy's Travels!

Well, we’ve been in Golden for two weeks now. Judy is well enough to
travel, so we’ll head south to somewhere warmer to continue the
convalescing. Las Cruces New Mexico would be nice. It’s straight down the
interstate, right before the Mexico border. Okay. So much for heading south. There is a winter storm going on in New
Mexico. We went west. Got as far as our favorite Colorado River State Park
outside Grand Junction. Two hundred fifty miles. It’s sunny and warm here.
A good place to spend the night.
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Sunday. Football. Laundry. Judy’s recovery is progressing nicely. For the first couple days I hung
around and got stuff for her. Now she’s ambulatory again so I don’t have to
be as nice to her. I didn’t do the laundry while she was recovering, so it
stacked up. Today, she feels well enough to take the pile down to the clubhouse laundry.
Actually, I took both her and the laundry down to the clubhouse and left
them there. Wait. It’s not like it was not her idea in the first place. I
didn’t exile her to the Laundromat. I even went back down there to move the
wet clothes from the washer to the dryer for her, and to help her fold them. Anyway, I stayed here to watch football and work a little. Sitting here
quietly, I heard a thump on the outside of the motorhome. It sounded like a
cabinet door closing. I got up and went outside to look around. Nothing.
I went back to work. Half an hour later, Rags called. From inside the
clothes hamper in the bedroom. The thump was not from outside, it was from
inside. We have this neat tilt out clothes hamper cabinet in the bedroom.
It’s the perfect cat trap. It’s perfect, because it has worked before, and
it continues to work. If you leave it open, the weight of the cat will
close it. Cat inside. It has been cold, windy, rainy, and snowy here. We’re considering sliding
south for a while to recuperate in the sun.

There is big, then there is really big. The big Monaco across the way pulled out and the Prevost pulled in. The
license plate says “ruffinit”. The plate on the hummer says “instyle”. The
giant box trailer painted to match, that the Hummer rides in, is parked down
by the office. This is the rig everyone looks at and rolls their eyes as they go by.

Another satisfied Dutch Star owner. I ran across that guy in Durango last year who had a shiny new motorhome he
hated. I was surprised to find out you can have a big expensive motorhome
and not like it. Now when I talk to people, I always ask how they like
their coach. Bounder owners are a loyal group. It is notable that every single Dutch
Star owner we’ve talked to is happy with their rig.

Had the follow-up visit with the physician. Here is the situation. My condition is described as “extensive calcified arteriosclerosis. At
least one significant fixed coronary narrowing may be present. The overall
risk of a cardiovascular event is very much higher than average.” If left untreated, we could expect 50% of people with this condition to have
a heart attack within the next ten years. My risk can be lowered
substantially with therapy. My heart scan results warranted a phone call from the cardiologist at the
heart imaging to my primary physician. His recommended therapy is to take
an aspirin a day, take a statin drug until my LDL is down from 160 to under
70, continue current diet and exercise, and take another thallium stress
test every year or two to monitor function. Dr Becky and I concur. I can
do that. If function becomes impaired, and we spot it, they can go in through the
groin with an angioplasty procedure to open up blood vessels and even put in
stents to keep them open if necessary. It sounds like if we pay the right
amount of attention to this we can keep the risk of heart attack relatively
low, make minor repairs as required, and maybe even avoid bypass surgery
altogether. That doesn’t suck too much. Not a discouraging situation at all.