Aaron sleeping just before we headed to the Medical Center
Well, we traveled to Colorado Springs without much fuss. We had a fun stop at Del Taco for 50 packs of hot sauce. Then we had a nice quiet evening with Mark and Evette. On Friday, Aaron worked on the new computer while Evette and I did some errands and packed for the trip. That evening Adam, Kirst and my favorite nephew Burke came for a visit and we ate at On The Border. I hadn't been there for years and it was delicious!
We loaded up the next morning and were on our way, with brief detour to the Young Life office. The Colorado scenery was great- mountains, plains, lots of rivers and streams. We arrived in Lake City and settled in. We promptly went to Dan's Fly Fishing store. Then we met our dear friends the Cairns and the Smiths downtown for some ice cream. We then helped them to unpack and then went to dinner.
Unfortunately, this is where the trouble begins. . . just after dinner, Aaron came in, laid down, and started shivering. Then he got hot. He had chills and fever all night.
He woke up the next morning pretty worn out. So, we visited the Lake City Area Medical Center. The hours were 2-4 on Sundays, so we got there just after 2. Around 5 pm, the nurse asked me to come back into the patient room with her. Aaron was getting back from a chest x-ray and starting to get chills again. The results: pneumonia or a blood clot. So, the very kind doctor* and nurses gave him a shot and put an I.V. in him. *Really- they were great~ I don't know what I would have done without their kindness. It is pretty hard and scary to see your husband hooked up to an I.V. and be helpless to do anything.~ We didn't leave until 7 pm. Needless to say, we took it easy that evening, visited, and went to bed early.
Aaron had a follow up appointment the next day at 10. We left at 12, ate lunch with everyone and then headed to Gunnison to get another antibiotic prescription filled. Nothing to exciting to report from that trip- but we did stop at Sonic. I got a vanilla coke- yum! That evening we visited and I played Uno with Jennie and Steve while Aaron sat around trying not to infect anyone with his pneumonia.
That's about it for the first few days. To be continued . . .
