I am in the Mayo Clinic Hospital, in Phoenix Arizona. Last Monday the 28th, after flying from Hong Kong to Seattle, laying over in Seattle for 3-hours, then flying to Phoenix Arizona, Patti and I checked into the hotel Patti had set up for us.<\/p>\n
I will repeat that. I flew from Hong Kong to Seattle about 12-hours. Laid over in Seattle then flew 3-hours to Phoenix. Do you think I was just a teeny weeny bit tired!<\/p>\n
After we checked into our Phoenix hotel, off we went to the Mayo Clinic Hospital Emergency Room. Great way to end up a long day huh?<\/p>\n
They admitted me to the hospital after reviewing my situation and shooting about 7 or 8 X-Rays of my left hip and left knee.<\/p>\n
En route from Dubai to Hong Kong, while in Hong Kong, en route from Hong Kong to Seattle, I had contacted a terrible case of ‘blast diarrhea’ and I mean a terrible case. I cannot say exactly when it came to visit me.<\/p>\n
I was given a serious regimen of antibiotics that have knocked out the diarrhea but I still have some pathogens in my system. Great. All the nursing staff are wearing ‘protective clothing’ to protect themselves from me.<\/p>\n
As I write these few words on Wednesday evening the 30th of November my Surgeon, as of this moment, plans a total left hip replacement in the morning.<\/p>\n
IF this doesn’t make me think carefully about any future trips to the other side of the World I don’t know what would.<\/p>\n
Captain? Don’t tell us you are getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am afraid at this moment that is an accurate appraisal.<\/span><\/p>\n Still Smiling. Cap<\/p>\n I insisted Patti take the whole day off and sleep and relax. She listened. Patti got here to the hospital about 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am in the Mayo Clinic Hospital, in Phoenix Arizona. Last Monday the 28th, after flying from Hong Kong to Seattle, laying over in Seattle for 3-hours, then flying to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,91,456,975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidents-messes","category-drama","category-hip-replacement","category-mayo-phoenix-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50849,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985\/revisions\/50849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}