The Rally is almost over

Today is the last day of the Rally, it's been fun seeing people again that we haven't seen in a long time. Getting together again with Stan and Ginger from Camarillo has been fun, hadn't seen them for a long time. So far they have sold 10 new Motor Homes, which I think is pretty darn good. Of course you can get good deals on them right now. We even found one for Kim and Danny for only 89K, it is 34 ft long it has a queen bed in back and 2 bunk beds on the side, it was pretty cute for a starter up one.

Before we left for the Rally, I don't think I mentioned, we had to get 2 new front tires, $500.00 a tire, ouch! We have 4 more to replace, but hopefully not all at the same time, they still look pretty good so far but RV Tires need to be replaced every 6 yrs, or are suppose to if you want to be safe.

Still all bruised up from the procedure that was done in Phoenix, the nurse said it will be like this for a couple weeks. Don't know why now though, I have bruises down lower on my leg, will check with the doctor next week. Good thing I didn't have it done in Bakersfield because I'm not suppose to lift anything over 10 lbs for 2 weeks, and that sure wouldn't have worked out well with Miss Madison.

We will head out tomorrow morning back to Cornville, and we plan on staying put until around the 11th of December. I think if we make it until then it will have been the longest we stayed in our house.

By the way, we got gas here in Tucson for $2.07, haven't seen it that low in I don't know how long.

No Blockage to Valve in Left Kidney

We are in Tucson, Arizona a couple days ahead of time for the RV Rally. They have 530 coaches showing up for this Rally, they had not expected such a turn out. It's the new company that took over part of the Monaco Coaches that had gone under like most of all the rest of the manufacturers. People showing up wanting to know what kind of service we can expect from this new company for repairs ect.

Wednesday night we left for Phoenix to spend the night in the parking lot of the John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital. Thursday morning I had to check in at 7:30am for my stent procedure, which ended up not being needed, which is good. When I finally got in the operating room and they started I was just beginning to get the drugs when they stopped them. Doctor stood up and said I had no blockage, I'm like what, what is causing the high blood pressure? He said probably the family history, but my kidney's are working perfectly, which he had told me the week before that the ultra sound can be wrong at times. I just thought for sure more then 70% blockage the ultra sound couldn't be that wrong, but it was. He prescribed another medicine to take and we will go from there. Still he had started the procedure through the groin checked both kidneys and it is sore now, need to take it easy because of the plug he put in to the main artery, don't want that puppy opening up with my luck I'll bleed to death. One good thing is now I don't have to wait 30 days for the knee surgery. By the way, the little bit of drugs they gave me brought my blood pressure down to perfect levels. If the knee surgeon just gives me a little something the blood pressure would be fine and he wouldn't have to worry. :)

Got our flu shots today at Wal-mart no H1N1, shots aren't available here right now.

Test Results are back

Saw the Doctor yesterday and even talked to the Surgeon about what is going on with the high blood pressure. The heart exam came out great but the Kidney one did not, it seems I have greater than 70% stenosis in the proximal and mid renal artery. In other words 70% blockage to my left Kidney valve, due from Family History. Luckily we have caught it in time before any damage is done, so more then likely next Thursday I will go to Phoenix and have a stint put in to open the valve back up. It will be an over night stay in the hospital then after that we leave for our Rally in Tucson. I asked both Doctor's what causes this and they both said "It's your Family History" nothing I can do about it. If nothing is done though it could lead to kidney damage and a stroke, and we don't want that. After that surgery I have to wait 30 days before I can have my knee surgery because of the meds I'll be on.

Anyway, on a brighter note, Dave and I got done planting 12 Sage bushes along the back fence, boy was that a lot of work. Our backyard is all rocks, plus, once you move those rocks and try and dig there are even more rocks underneath.

We have been doing the garage sales and estate sales and made some pretty good buys this past weekend, lots of fun.

Dave's got another new job, non paying, he is now the Cyber Assistant to the Secretary of the Elk's Lodge in Jerome. Now he is a Cyber Assistant and Chairman on the Architectural committee.

The lady across the street from us, very unfriendly, let's her dog run around and yesterday the dog crapped in my yard and then the dog had the nerve to come running and barking at Dave and I when we got back from our walk. I chased the dog down, the lady came running out of her house and called her dog back, I told her to clean up my yard too! This is the 2nd time this dog has attacked us so this time I wrote the HOA and they said to call the Sheriff and report it, which I did this morning. The Sheriff called me back and said they will be out this afternoon to talk to her about the leash law. If she isn't home they will write her up, will see. If she can be so unfriendly so can I.

That's it for now, heading out for Bakersfield tomorrow for a few days, will come back to Arizona on Tuesday. We need a Miss Madison fix.

Back in Cornville

We finally finished cleaning out the RV and put it in storage, hopefully, no mice, snakes or anything else get in. Dave thinks he filled all the openings, will see when we get it back out of storage on the 22nd of Oct.

My car's front end has been shaking a lot so we had to take it in to get checked. With having only 1 car you either hang out at the repair place, take your bikes so you can ride home or just walk home. We choose walking home, it was almost 4 miles no biggie, just a little bit further then we walk every morning. When it was done we decided to ride our bikes down to go pick it up, never again. It was a lot more work riding the bike then walking, plus, not much of a bike lane and lots of cars use that road. The car ended up just needing an alignment and rotated the tires, thank goodness we thought it was going to be something major since the car has 120,000 miles on it.

This past Thursday we started finding the garage sales and estate sales again, Dave has found stuff to buy but I haven't yet. Friday we went to the Prescott Fair, very small, then on to Costco.

Saturday, in Cottonwood, we went to the Rhythm & Ribs fest, 4th year having it. With the price of admission you got 3 free sample tickets to try from any of the vendors. After that for a $1 the other vendors would give you a sample. They had a big stage setup for all the bands that were going to be playing. The best restaurant ribs, we thought, were Hog Wild. We have been wanting to try the place but just haven't done it yet, now we will be. Still haven't found out yet who won.

Dave is now Chairman of the Architectural Committee here. Since he missed the last meeting they voted him to become the Chairman, oh yea! (when you belong to a committee you better not miss a meeting) Plus, he will be working on the website for the Elks Lodge, so he should be keeping pretty busy. I don't think the Elks have done anything to their website since 2006 or 2007. There isn't much to do as Chairman except go to the meetings once a month, and if someone submits something they want to change on their house everyone has to look at it, if it is turned down then Dave has to write the letter.

My brother, Mike, did great through surgery and is doing good, my surgery was cancelled until November 2nd. Got to find out about this high blood pressure, am going tomorrow for a Echo Cardiogram with Doppler and a Renal Ultrasound test, will get results next week. I might also have a stress test next week if the BP is under control.

That's about it, Dave is starting to set water drips in the backyard so we can start planting things.