What a week! Or maybe 5 months!

Ok, Campers,  been a great couple of weeks lately and an even better one coming up.  After that opening, I know y'all are chomping at the bit in excitement.  Right? So let's get started.

As, y'all know, back on Halloween, Mrs J and I were involved in a car accident after I had an unexpected (I'd never been diagnosed with it) Atrial Fibrilation (AFIB) incident.  I lost consciousness at 75MPH (the speed limit there, Beans) and went off the highway and into a ditch and hit a rock embankment.  

The truck was totaled.  Mrs J was bruised and sore, but essentially ok.  I had hit the steering wheel and was unconscious for a bit, but regained it as the ambulance drove up.  Long story short, I had 3 cracked vertebrae in my neck and my sternum was broken from hitting the steering column.  Yes, we both had our seat belts on.

 Spent a week in the hospital, not because of the injuries but because of the heart issue.

But because of the bone and neck injuries, I wore a neck brace for 4 months and recently (finally!) got permission to take it off.  During a visit with my Cardiologist a few days ago, he said everything about the AFib was coming along nicely, and released me from my indenture.  I'm having another procedure, called an Ablation, done next month to, hopefully, finish up the process.  

I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV, but apparently, they run a tube up one of the blood vessels in my leg into my heart and do something up there in one of the other chambers of my heart to get that fixed.  It's an outpatient procedure, so shouldn't (Please, Lord!) be difficult.    

But everybody seems confident, so...full speed ahead. 

I found it interesting, that after the Doctor gave me the release blessing, I was released from my restriction on driving.  Didn't have to go beg for mercy from TEXDOT, just saw that my name was no longer on the prohibited list. 

I got to drive home!  Wow!  Big Smile on my face.

And all this came about just in time.

Mrs J and I are flying to France on Wed, 8 Apr, to go on a wine cruise on a river there .  Over the past few years, she has set up a few of these with the winemakers we know in our area.   They, in turn, invite their wine club members to sign up. While cruising, the winemaker conducts wine seminars and the guests get to enjoy tasting his wine, what's not to like? Mrs J has set up a few of these in the past and they're gaining popularity, so it's a win/win for ALCON.

And they're fun.  This one will be on the Rhone River in Provence.  Nice scenery, nice friendly customers, nice wine...what's not to like?

Our boat on the Rhone River

 

So, I think there's internet on the boat, and will keep you up to date if so. But, it you're hearing the sounds of silence, the lack thereof might be explainable.  

We'll see.

Peace out y'all!