Category: Journal
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Journal Entry – Travel to Rochester
To get ready for my ablation procedure on Friday, I drove up to Rochester today. Since I left in the late morning, I traveled through Iowa, since I had the time. The fall colors are a little hard to describe at this time, and I would guess that the weather has made the difference. When…
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Journal Entry – Lake Superior – Day 8
After I got up this morning, I tried to figure my day. Should I stay here and take in the beautiful leaves and hike in Porcupine State park, or should I travel to Medford, Wisconsin. As the sun was coming out from behind the clouds, I decided to stay here, and I am glad that…
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Journal Entry – Lake Superior – Day 7
Another beautiful day here next to Lake Superior, with the sun out and the leaves in full color. Even with the high winds yesterday, the leaves really did not come down. This has been a good trip based on the colors of the leaves. With the high winds yesterday, I stayed in Copper Harbor for…
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Journal Entry – Lake Superior Trip – My Birthday
As for me, it is so great to spend time up here in the colorful wonderland for my birthday. Today was more cloudy than yesterday, so it was not a day to take photo of the colors, but it was a good day for hiking. I guess that I need to back up to last…
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Journal Entry – Lake Superior Trip – Day 4
This morning was overcast, but late in the morning I toured Fort Wilkins, since I am camped campground. The fort was built in 1844. After purchasing the land up here from the Indians and finding copper, the fort was build to maintain peace, although the Indians were to move off of the land. Without much…
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Journal Entry – My Surgery
William Worrall Mayo born in 1919 described as an English Immigrant and country doctor, and I have seen photos of him with his horse and buggy. Dr. Mayo always saw his patents in a suit. When William James Mayo (Dr. Will) and Charles Horace Mayo (Dr. Charlie) became surgeons, they kept their farther legacy and…
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Journal Entry – Surgery
I was informed this evening that I am to be at St. Mary’s Hospital at 9:00 tomorrow, and that sounds like it should work fine. At first I felt that this was going to be just routine surgery on one hernia. But now that it is three hernia, it seems like it is more than…
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Journal Entry – My Health II
I had my visit with the cardiologist this morning, and the discussion went well. My heart rate expands when I get an infection, as was pointed out with my sinus and urinary track infections, with the problem being that I do not know when my heart rate has increased. To make a long story short,…
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Journal Entry – My Health
The breaking news today is: my inters are leaking out of my body.” In scientific words, I have three hernias. One on the right side (the big one), one on the left side, and one in the center (the belly button). This all sounds and fell routine until the doctor states that he will have…
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Journal Entry – My Health VIII
Since the late 1980s, there has been a cascading effect on my hearth. In the late 1980s, I had a pain in my lower right abdomen. The doctors stated that I had a hernia. When I when in for my hernia surgery, they found that I had abbesses appendix, and they had to operate on…
