Wyoming Views(Monday Dr. Mulvihill's scheduling person Shelly called and asked if I could be down for the consultation tomorrow!!! Yikes. After several days not journaling I had begun to space a lot of things out. Things were just flying past in a blur. So asked Judi about the days we went down to Salt Lake for the consultation with the doctor. I'm just going to use what she wrote to me, below, for Monday and Tuesday. I am so grateful to Judi for going with me at the drop of a hat. And for the really great notes she took at the consultation. She even drew litttle caricature portraits of each of the multitude of staff that we talked to for HOURS. Her notes have been added to my file for all of these procedures. And she drew her signature moose cartoon on their bulletin board in the prep room. Except for the reason for the trip, we had a nice time together and good company on the drive.)
Monday morning Oct 22: Lynn called Rollie who tracked me down in town and I called Lynn back. She said the doctor in Salt Lake could see her the next morning. We arranged to meet at Rendezvous Pointe for lunch and leave for SLC from there. When Lynn came in for lunch the jaundice was showing. She felt she could do the driving - we went in her car -and she did fine. I was along for backup & companionship, mostly.
Just north of Kemmerer we stopped for some sheepherders moving sheep across the highway to a new field. (They had at least 10 dogs.) We both had our cameras out. We stopped for gas in Kemmerer and then Lynn drove me down through the old part of Diamondville. Very interesting. We stopped at Betty Pfaff's but she was not home.
Lynn had directions for a motel that she'd gotten from the doctor's office. She'd written the word "Marriott" on it (from the drs. secretary)! I had a newflangled GPS that told locations of motels, restaurants and such. We were northbound on Foothills Blvd and the GPS said to turn, so we did. We found the Marriott and Lynn went in. It was the wrong place but they got us going in the right direction. We were staying at the University of Utah Guest House which is part of the old 1862 Fort Douglas. VERY nice. We went to a Country Kitchen type restaurant for dinner and then came back and settled in for the night. Neither Lynn nor I could fall asleep. She got up at 11pm and took a shower & then we both slept.
Nice breakfast provided by the Guest House in the morning and then over to the doctor's office. As soon as we entered the building we met 3 maintenance people. We asked directions and one of them - a nice young woman from Dayton, Ohio - took us through a maze of construction straight to the doctor's office. Lynn has all my notes from that point until she was done with all the consultations, blood draws and test - about 2:30. She had lunch (I'd already eaten) at the hospital cafeteria. Lynn again chose to drive. I felt very comfortable with her driving. She took me on the backroad from Coalville to Echo. We stopped at the Bear River Center in Evanston. I drove from there to Marbleton where it was dark which bothers my driving, so Lynn drove on to Pinedale. She was able to drop me off in town since Rollie was there for a class. I think she said she got home about 8:30pm.
