Rusty Sunning on Post Talked to Kay about the Mixed Media show. And to Jo about the new Community Center. Jo is on her way to China with her family for about two weeks. Judi and I had talked about having me watch their dog Buddy while they went to Texas for a month to see their family and I had said yes. So she brought Buddy over for a trial visit and left him while she took a walk for a few hours up in Muddy Canyon. Judi took that errant painting in to give to Kay who would be going to Cody in a week or so and would return it to the art gallery for me.
In the meantime I called for a doctor appointment and they told me to come in the afternoon for a walk-in visit. I got Joe some lunch and I made me a small ham sandwich to eat on the way, and little did I know this was my last meal for about four days. As soon as Judi got back to pick up Buddy, I took the dogs and headed in to Pinedale. Drove right to clinic and figured I'd walk the dogs later - but there was no later for them. There was very little wait to see Dr. K . We talked about what had been going on and they took a blood test for the biliruben. It was elevated from my September blood fair results - from 0.6 and now was around 3.5 I think. There are several different categories and all Greek to me, so I just relied on the Drs. to interpret.
This is where I got onto the fast track and the next few weeks were just a whirlwind. Dr. K. got on the phone and in no time at all I was scheduled for a CT scan and endoscopy in Jackson tonight and he told me I had to go there immediately and check in to the emergency entrance as an outpatient. I said I had the dogs and he told me I'd better leave them with a friend or board them, that I didn't have time to take them home. Even people at the clinic said they would take them, but not of that sounded quite acceptable for the dogs. He called Dr. Dean, the vet in town, and their kennel was full. Dr. Susie didn't answer the phone, so I rushed to go take them back home which would ad two hours to the driving time. When I went past Susie's I pulled in. Her sign and asked if she could take them overnight and she said yes. I called Joe and told him I had to go to the hospital at Jackson and that I would get the dogs in the morning on the way home after the tests. I had toyed with the idea that they could stay in the hospital parking lot in the car overnight but boy! was sure glad I didn't do that. Joe picked up the dogs the next morning after we knew how long I'd be gone.
By then I think it was about 4 p.m. or so. I drove steady and a little fast and got up there about sunset. It was a lovely fall day full of color through the canyons. I watched for those landslides but never spotted the places they were. They were expecting me at the emergency entrance and I was actually all checked in since they have our info in their computers. That was painless. They took me right into a hospital room and hooked me up to an IV and I was a prisoner. I put my purse and clothes I was wearing into a drawer. I was also immediately fasting. Was sure glad I had that sandwich as an afterthought. I thought I'd have the scan that night, but they said about 7 a.m. in the morning. I had nothing with me to be away from home, but then I didn't need anything either. I watch TV about all night, and the nurses and aides did their thing with the monitoring and vitals every few hours. I was so hooked up to tubes that I had to call a nurse every time I wanted to go to the bathroom. Slept about 20 minutes all night.
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