Thursday, October 11, 2012

A Vacation to Forget - Day 1.5

Ever put boots on a dog for the first time and laugh until you almost pee your pants? That is what watching DJ use crutches for the first time was . . .except without the laughing. We headed to Door County to pick up art work from Decorators Gallery and just spend some time up north in the beautiful fall foliage.

We left Milo at the vet as he was going to have a procedure done to fix his breathing problems, the vet said they thought it was polyps (not lollipops) in his throat. We decide to take the longer, more scenic route by going to Sheboygan and then straight up following Lake Michigan. As opposed to the butt ugly route towards Oshkosh. Oshkosh is a pretty city but that area near the highway is BUTT UGLY (sort of what Columbus will look like soon).

I took this iPhone shot at Two Rivers, our first stop.

In the afternoon we get a call from the vet saying that they could not find any polyps and with further tests and flushing there was a lot of blood in his nostrils which COULD be cancer. More tests were needed (of cour$e).

After checking in to the Ceder Creek Inn in Fish Creek we thought that since it was so windy we should go to Cave Point to check out the waves.

As we get there it is just crazy windy (gusts to 53mph) and I tried to take some photos. The thing was that I ALMOST lost my camera. It was on the tripod and the wind blew it over towards the water but I caught it. Almost lost my cap a few times also.

The odd thing was that water level is 1 inch from record low and their was only 1 or 2 feet of water surging into the cave area. Plus I could not go where I normally stand because while the lake is low the waves were pushing everything on to the rocks.

Normally I can stand 10 or 20 feet beyond that wave.

ANYWAY - we have supper at the Gibraltar Grill and are looking around for other things to do. A few days earlier DJ mentioned that she felt she had been fighting off a cold for the last few days and it was now here, she had a cold.

Undaunted as we were on vacation and we walked around Fish Creek and stopped in for a drink at a local bar for ONE beer. As we were walking back to our inn we spotted a coffee shop and went up the stairs to look in the windows. We both agreed to check it out in the morning.

It was dark and the stairs were uneven with uneven stone at the bottom. The last step was about one inch lower then all the rest and as we went down DJs ankle, which expected to find the bottom at 6 inches felt nothing and reached out, twisting, searching for footing and found it at the most inopportune split second.

Snap, pop, and I turn around and WOMAN DOWN!! After a few moments of pain we limp the final 2 blocks to the inn.

At the inn we see the ankle has an easter egg size swelling with all sorts of pretty colors. I go get ice and elevate it and hope it gets better in the morning.

It does not. I go get some coffee at the coffee shop and we decide to find an urgent care which, it seems, is 25 miles away. We skip breakfast and drive to the hospital and spend most of the day getting xrays and so forth. Meanwhile . . . . .I think I'm catching a cold.

Finally about 1:30 we are let loose. DJ has two chipped bones in her ankle and we need to get crutches. FINALLY we are free and WE NEED FOOD!!!

We go to a bar to get great hamburgers and think about what to do. It's been raining ever since we woke up so not a lot of outside action going on so it's decided to just drive around looking for photos.