Awake: 6:30am Temp 67 sleep 6+20 sunny overnight @ Newell Campground.
Lee’s Detroit Diesel engine woke me up from a sound sleep but it’s close to my usual wake up time anyway. I watch them pull out, hook up their tow car & roar up the road toward PA.
Later, super guy Harry pulls his coach out from the most desired campsite; the only one that’s close enough to the dump station to permit dumping waste water without moving the coach. Kathy zips our Suzuki onto that pad to claim residence while I retract our slides, wind up the shore cable & head right on over there.
It was nice visiting with Harry & Roslyn again; we had visited them for (2) days in Little Rock, AR in Dec 2003 & really enjoyed our time with them then and now.
Later we bid farewell to Harry & Roslyn who are returning to Little Rock & to Sydney & Linda who are heading to Sallisaw, OK today.
Mid morning, I ask Madison, Newell’s computer guru, to help carry the portable freezer that is still sitting @ our old campsite. We take it back into the service bay where Dave had set it for our use last Monday.
This past week, I’ve been asking Kathy to look @ a spot on my back that itches; each day she applies Cortisone & says it’s getting redder & bigger. We both agree that maybe I should have a doctor take a look @ it. All along I’ve been suspicious of an insect bite. I ask Kathy if she would look into finding a doctor to see what's going on.
She walks to the main office & asks the receptionist, Kathy, about a local doctor who we could see about this; not only does she give a phone number but also makes an appointment for me for 1:30 today, very kind & efficient of her.
Late morning, Kathy is in the back of the motorhome & I hear a loud noise; “did you drop something” I ask her. “No” she says. I looked outside, didn’t see anyone so I kept on reading.
About 1:00pm, we leave for downtown to find the doctor’s office. (20) min after we arrive, the patient application is filled out (it was very thorough) & within (10) min we were taken in to see Dr. Duane. I like having Kathy along because, being a nurse, she is very good @ asking questions that I would never think of & she holds my hand when I get wimpy.
I stated on my application that I might have an “Insect Bite”, so Dr. D. began asking about our outdoor activities & areas we had been walking or hiking in. When he raised my undershirt to look @ my back, he says: “that’s no insect bite; you have a case of shingles.” “But I am too young to have shingles” I told him. “Do you know the youngest person documented with shingles?” he ask me.” Then he raised “(6)” fingers. Next we talk about the treatment & what medicine might be best to take. I was very surprised about all of this. He told us the medicine would be available @ the local Wal-Mart within (2) hr. I liked Dr. D. very much. He had a sense of humor, was very sociable, smart, & thorough.
After that excitement, we visit a different liquor store, restock our short supply of wine, & then drive past the Northeast Oklahoma A & M College campus. We did a little stalling around before visiting Wal-Mart to pick up my shingles anti viral medicine.
Back @ our motorhome, I was on the computer & looking around @ our unorganized living room when something caught my eye: a long crack (about 12 in.) in the refrigerator wall that was just finished yesterday. Huh! I couldn’t believe it; that must have been the noise I heard earlier. I felt bad about exposing this to Kathy. We’re pretty sure that flaw will slow our progress by @ least a day.
Dinner: Kathy’s homemade crab cakes, broccoli, & rice.
Without doing the dishes, we zip down to NEO (Northeast Oklahoma) A & M College & join the Newell technician, Bobbie, & his wife, Sheryl, &their son, in watching a high school football game: Miami Wardogs vs. Cardinals from Collinsville, OK. We stayed for the 1st half of the game (Wardogs lead by 13 points) & the halftime show (Bobbie’s daughter is on the dance team) & then, returned to our cool coach. I was on a hot seat (concrete) sweating away but did enjoy the ambience & friendliness of a small home town experience.
Kathy washed the dinner dishes & I dried them before watching the movie: “Lust for Life” with Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, etc. Brilliant adaptation of Irving Stone’s biography of painter Van Gogh, vividly portraying his anguished life. 1956. What a story; we had no idea of the struggle this man had in his short lifetime.
High temp=88 Lights out: 12:47am
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