{"id":4955,"date":"2010-10-16T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2010-10-16T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T13:05:08","slug":"va-vacation-7-aunt-marj-and-the-e-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/va-vacation-7-aunt-marj-and-the-e-r\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Vacation #7 – Aunt Marj and the E.R."},"content":{"rendered":"

after camping out for two nights, we headed down to urbanna, virginia, to stay with kevin’s aunt marj.\u00a0 urbanna is a quaint little town on the banks of the Rappahannock River.<\/p>\n

Marj used to have a b&b called the white swan, and her house has all kinds of swans.<\/p>\n

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here we are with jerry and marj; jerry rents a room from her.\u00a0 i was so happy to meet kevin’s aunt because she’s a delightful, sweet, gracious person who really loves animals.<\/p>\n

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we have a little duck statue like this in our front yard.<\/p>\n

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we all went to eat at marj’s daughter and son in law’s delicious restaurant.\u00a0 i had lobster bisque, scallops, and a big slab of chocolatey goodness for dessert.\u00a0 it was fun to meet kevin’s cousin robie, who entertained us with tales of kevin as a kid.<\/p>\n

a lovely evening, and then robie’s husband came out from the kitchen and gave us a tour.\u00a0 but as we stood up, i suddenly felt like i’d taken a massive sleeping pill – i couldn’t stop these huge, huge yawns.\u00a0 we walked through the dining room and into the kitchen, and i started to feel…strange.\u00a0 i’d never felt like this before, and things started to get dark around me and sounds were muffled.\u00a0 i didn’t know what to do – robie’s husband was showing us where they kept all the wine, and i didn’t want to be rude in front of these people i’d never met…but i was pretty sure i was going to either pass out or die.<\/p>\n

i finally squeezed kevin’s arm and mumbled something.\u00a0 he got me a chair, they all crowded around me, and i didn’t pass out, but all the strength drained from my hands.\u00a0 marj said we’d better get to the hospital.<\/p>\n

oh no.<\/p>\n

at this point it was about 9:30, maybe, and jerry drove me to the hospital in the little town about 15 minutes away.\u00a0 i wasn’t feeling nearly as bad, sitting there in the car, but everybody agreed that i should go be checked out.<\/p>\n

when we got to the little hospital they rushed me inside and the place was pretty much deserted.\u00a0 i thought, well, at least this shouldn’t take so long since there’s nobody here.<\/p>\n

i was wrong, of course.<\/p>\n

they took me into a room and a nurse asked me a bunch of questions, including “do you feel safe in your home?”\u00a0 at first i didn’t comprehend what she could possibly be talking about.\u00a0 it did finally occur to my muddled brain that she meant, does kevin beat you?\u00a0 i found this highly amusing and wanted to tell her about how it’s a little bit like a heavily-guarded fortress at our house, and i had nothing to be worried about, but i figured this was no time for such frivolity.<\/p>\n

they hooked me up to an EKG and another nurse came in and took a bunch of blood and the doctor came in and asked me a bunch of questions.<\/p>\n

and then we waited.<\/p>\n

and waited.<\/p>\n

and waited some more.<\/p>\n

i was really, really bored, and kevin and i were both really, really sleepy.\u00a0 poor marj and jerry were out in the waiting room, i’m sure equally bored and tired.<\/p>\n

i finally decide we’d better have some photos; at least it would give us something to do for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

they made me put on this gown, but i kept my pants and shoes on.<\/p>\n

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like i said, this was a very small-town hospital and it looked liked it was an exam room and also a storage closet.<\/p>\n

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why didn’t i take my boots off?\u00a0 it would have been more comfortable.<\/p>\n

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kevin is trying to keep his eyes open.<\/p>\n

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there was a bunch of crutches hanging on the wall, and eventually somebody came in and got a pair for a guy who came in with some kind of leg injury.\u00a0 he came in after i did and left before i did.<\/p>\n

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post op shoes.\u00a0 in case you need some shoes for your post op.<\/p>\n

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the blood results were finally in, and i passed them all with flying colors, except finally the doctor said i had low potassium, which she said could have caused the episode, or it could have been for some unknown reason and we’d never know.\u00a0 she gave me a prescription for potassium pills and a big list of instructions.<\/p>\n

it was midnight.<\/p>\n

we were all very very happy to make the drive back to marj’s house.<\/p>\n

the next day we said good-bye to marj and jerry, and we headed off for the shenandoah.\u00a0 i didn’t operate any heavy machinery, but i did take a shower by myself even though one of dire the warnings on my list of instructions was DO NOT SHOWER BY YOURSELF. i didn’t pass out anymore, even though i showered alone.\u00a0 i went to my dr. this week and my potassium is now aok, so no more worries about that.<\/p>\n

just a little bit of ER excitement during the middle of our trip.<\/p>\n

ok then,<\/p>\n

grace on FRIDAY already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

after camping out for two nights, we headed down to urbanna, virginia, to stay with kevin’s aunt marj.\u00a0 urbanna is a quaint little town on the banks of the Rappahannock River. Marj used to have a b&b called the white swan, and her house has all kinds of swans. here we are with jerry and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,80],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kevin","tag-virginia-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-1hV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}