Great news(I think)! Miss "Q"s tests came back normal!! The doc says he will continue to monitor and see what happens next. I have a call in to the nurse to see what other tests can be used to determine the cause of this "loss of balance"!
In the meantime we are enjoying the tastes of Texas!!! I stumbled into a grocery store in Alamo, TX and lo and behold they make their own tortillas, tostata shells and what I call ELEPHANT EARS!! Yeah! I bought a six pack of yummy sugarery, and cinnamon sweet chrispy delights!! I can have one with breakfast coffee, afternoon pick-me-up, dinner desert!!! They cost $2.00 for all six!!! They also have fresh dough to fry my own tortillas!! I see why it is so difficult for people from Mexico to diet when all this food is so good! Ahhh lifes little pleasures!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Monday, February 6, 2012
Loss of Balance
My oldest child"Q" has been suffering from a strange "loss of balance"! She has been having seizures since she was 3 years old but this is different! We are waiting for the results of an MRI and a "dopler" exam of her artery that was done last Monday. It seems like a week should be long enough!
After looking up on the internet "TIA"! She may be experiencing those symptoms and if so it could lead to a stroke. She could be a perfect candidate for a blocked artery as her father has had a heart by-pass and her mother has 3 stents in her arteries.
We just have to wait and see!
After looking up on the internet "TIA"! She may be experiencing those symptoms and if so it could lead to a stroke. She could be a perfect candidate for a blocked artery as her father has had a heart by-pass and her mother has 3 stents in her arteries.
We just have to wait and see!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Alamo, AGAIN!!!!
I thought that if you went to The Alamo once that would be enough!!! OH!! But what about Alamo, TX?
My travel companion discovered on Feb. 1st that the RV resort in Riviera only accepted two dogs and lo and behold we have three. So a quick phone call to the site and the manager would not be in until 3 and we needed an answer before that!! So here we were stuck without a home for a month. So we get out the Texas campground book and start looking for places. The TC(travel companion) found a place in the valley near Pharr, TX where we will be staying for the month of March. We called and they had two places available for the month so we took one!
It is very nice here with permanent homes as well as motor homes, and 5th wheels. They even have a dog park!!
It's not only close to Pharr but next door to Pharr as all the little towns here run into the other without you even realizing you left one town for another.
So so much for the Gulf and watching the waves come in and go out and listening to the sea gulls!! I guess TC doesn't like the ocean as well as I thought she would.... So much for Corpus Cristy, and Riviera, maybe next time!!
At least we finally found sunshine and warm temperatures!! We went golfing with a group from here yesterday and then took a dip in the pool!! I LOVE the sun and warm!!!!! TC found a bridge game for tomorrow so all is right with the World!!!
My travel companion discovered on Feb. 1st that the RV resort in Riviera only accepted two dogs and lo and behold we have three. So a quick phone call to the site and the manager would not be in until 3 and we needed an answer before that!! So here we were stuck without a home for a month. So we get out the Texas campground book and start looking for places. The TC(travel companion) found a place in the valley near Pharr, TX where we will be staying for the month of March. We called and they had two places available for the month so we took one!
It is very nice here with permanent homes as well as motor homes, and 5th wheels. They even have a dog park!!
It's not only close to Pharr but next door to Pharr as all the little towns here run into the other without you even realizing you left one town for another.
So so much for the Gulf and watching the waves come in and go out and listening to the sea gulls!! I guess TC doesn't like the ocean as well as I thought she would.... So much for Corpus Cristy, and Riviera, maybe next time!!
At least we finally found sunshine and warm temperatures!! We went golfing with a group from here yesterday and then took a dip in the pool!! I LOVE the sun and warm!!!!! TC found a bridge game for tomorrow so all is right with the World!!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Who Would Have Known???
We had lunch at a great "German" restaurant yesterday in San Antonio!! Who whould have known that there is a large German settlement in of all places San Antonio, TX!! With the Spanish and native American influence in architecture and language who would ever look for a German influence but us!!! The restaurant was Schilo and we had wonderful split pea soup, and franks and brats, and rye bread and fabulous saurkraut! Yummy!!!
We are having some work done on our rig tomorrow then heading South to a State park. On the 1st of Feb. we will be in Rivera, TX on the gulf for a month. I can't wait!!! I just hope it is warm and sunny and the gulf is beautiful!
We are having some work done on our rig tomorrow then heading South to a State park. On the 1st of Feb. we will be in Rivera, TX on the gulf for a month. I can't wait!!! I just hope it is warm and sunny and the gulf is beautiful!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Texas RVing women
WOW! What a nice bunch of women. We had dinner with them at a restaurant in Bandera, TX that had saddles used as bar stools! Very clever! They have been very helpful with sharing a name of a repair shop as well as some great suggestions on where to visit in Texas while we are here.
Texas
Here we are in Texas! We arrived in time to enjoy a great weekend with the wonderful women of RVingWomen! They were so helpful and welcoming. Made us feel like we belong here.
We are now in San Antonio for a week and doing a little sight-seeing. We took a tour bus to The Alamo and two missions that were built in the 1700s and are still standing!
Some of the buildings are being refurbished but they are trying to maintain the same colors and style of the times. The buildings were designed by the Franciscan monks and used the Moors influence as a guide.
Some of the buildings are being refurbished but they are trying to maintain the same colors and style of the times. The buildings were designed by the Franciscan monks and used the Moors influence as a guide.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
How does 3 turn into 8??
We started to leave Gulfport, MS after a very nice visit and have a leisurely drive of about 3 hours that amazingly turned into 8 hours!! Too much! After no levelers, no battery, no go.....but wait I am getting ahead of myself.
We had a nice hearty breakfast of grits this morning in preparation of a drive to Louisiana. I would have liked to see New Orleans again but my "travel companion" had just been there at a bridge tournament last year and was not interested in fighting the traffic so we opted to drive on the North side of Lake Pontchatrain instead of the Southside. As usual she was right again---but wait I am ahead of myself again! We prepared to leave Gulfport and pulled in the slide, unfastened the water hose, did the dump thing, and went to raise the levelers and all I got was a, "click, click, click". the coach battery was dead again!! Cathy went to the office of the RV resort and asked for someone to help us with a jump on the coach battery. A nice man from Indiana came to the rescue...and got the battery jumped so I could raise the levelers. So off we went!!! YEAH!! I called the leveler company to ask how the levelers could draw down the battery. Of course it is difficult to diagnose a problem from so far away.
Next I called Nexus with the same question and they too were trying to be helpful but it is very hard from Northern IN to help us in Mississippi. They did suggest that we had a bad cell in the battery and that if we stopped at a battery store we could have it checked so off we went in search of a battery store on the way to LA(Louisiana).
We took I12 on the Northside of the Lake and stumbled upon Dixie RV store! We would never have found the nice man, Wayne, in the service department if we had gone to New Orleans! He was wonderful!!! When the Camping World service department that is attached to Dixie RV couldn't help us because they only had 2 techs and were booked solid and not able to assist. I went over to Wayne and asked if they were buried too and he said, "well, yes but let me see what I can do". He went into the service garage and brought back a tester and went out to the rig with me and sure enough a cell was dead in the coach battery. Also,, he explained that there should be two batteries in that compartment and only one was there! He installed two batteries for us and gave us the broken one to show Nexus when we get back to Indiana.
In a couple hours we were on our way!
If you ever need service on your RV and are in LA, go see Wayne at Dixie RV!!!
We had a nice hearty breakfast of grits this morning in preparation of a drive to Louisiana. I would have liked to see New Orleans again but my "travel companion" had just been there at a bridge tournament last year and was not interested in fighting the traffic so we opted to drive on the North side of Lake Pontchatrain instead of the Southside. As usual she was right again---but wait I am ahead of myself again! We prepared to leave Gulfport and pulled in the slide, unfastened the water hose, did the dump thing, and went to raise the levelers and all I got was a, "click, click, click". the coach battery was dead again!! Cathy went to the office of the RV resort and asked for someone to help us with a jump on the coach battery. A nice man from Indiana came to the rescue...and got the battery jumped so I could raise the levelers. So off we went!!! YEAH!! I called the leveler company to ask how the levelers could draw down the battery. Of course it is difficult to diagnose a problem from so far away.
Next I called Nexus with the same question and they too were trying to be helpful but it is very hard from Northern IN to help us in Mississippi. They did suggest that we had a bad cell in the battery and that if we stopped at a battery store we could have it checked so off we went in search of a battery store on the way to LA(Louisiana).
We took I12 on the Northside of the Lake and stumbled upon Dixie RV store! We would never have found the nice man, Wayne, in the service department if we had gone to New Orleans! He was wonderful!!! When the Camping World service department that is attached to Dixie RV couldn't help us because they only had 2 techs and were booked solid and not able to assist. I went over to Wayne and asked if they were buried too and he said, "well, yes but let me see what I can do". He went into the service garage and brought back a tester and went out to the rig with me and sure enough a cell was dead in the coach battery. Also,, he explained that there should be two batteries in that compartment and only one was there! He installed two batteries for us and gave us the broken one to show Nexus when we get back to Indiana.
In a couple hours we were on our way!
If you ever need service on your RV and are in LA, go see Wayne at Dixie RV!!!
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