BUSH DIARY NOVEMBER 1997

BUSH DIARY NOVEMBER 1997:

11-1:  Barrow is officially damp, folks can possess alcohol, consume privately but not sell, trade or barter.  Like THAT would happen.

11-6: Went to the airport to meet Tim.  Plane was late and they announced that the flight out tonight was making a special flag stop at Prudhoe as they had equipment and personnel that just had to get delivered.  Unfortunately that would add an hour to everything.  Plane finally got in and Tim got off with Bradford and carryon.  No BOJA.  Tim went back to make baggage claim thing and Boja turned up, she was stowed in the Prudhoe Bay equipment.  All right then.  All is good.

Saturday 11-7:  Very bad day in Barrow.  A Hageland Air flight took off for Wainwright at 8:06 am and crashed killing all on board.  Sad part is that there was a coffin on board with family all going to Wainwright for the funeral.  The plane went down 100 yards off shore.  The whole town is in shock. 

Ron Nalikak was part of the recovery team and he was decompressing and describing some of the more horrific stuff.  They had to pull the plane out of the water.  All of the passengers were trapped in the front from the weight of the coffin which broke loose on impact.  Ron said that the metal coffin weighed about 500 pounds and actually bent in the middle.  They had to use the Jaws to cut the plane apart.  The jaws blade actually bent cutting apart some of the structures on the plane.  Thank God for Marines.

Going High Tech with the bus route.  North Slope Borough has been developing a bus map on channel 57.  It shows the three main bus routes and real time location so one could estimate when to start walking to the bus stop.  Very nice. 

Computer Game:  Holiday on Tuesday, Veteran's Day.  I got the sequel to Myst called Riven, very mysterious and lots of puzzles to solve.  I mostly navigate through the beautiful scenery. Only thing is it is a very big game,five discs. Have to stop from time to time to change discs.  Ugh.

Jury Duty: I got the duty through the end of January 1998.  What fun.  I have been called once but the parties settled before even calling in the jury.  Yay!

Most of the week before Thanksgiving was spent straightening out the bill pay services.  A set of replacement cards did not show up and I was using expired cards.  Then those cards were reported missing which started a cascade of closed cards and unpaid utilities.  So I spent some time trotting around Barrow paying by check and explaining the happenstance.  Erk.  

Pharmacy:  Payless did not send my meds.  After some floundering around I discovered that one of the lady doctors wrote me some scrips and all of them were sitting in the pharmacy at the hospital.   Then the Payless scrips showed up in the mail, now I got extra.  Yay, me.

Gotta rest up now, G'night folks.

BUSH DIARY OCTOBER 1997

BUSH DIARY OCTOBER 1997:

Another Patrick Story:  Patrick has been taking an evening class at Ilisagvik College.  One of the topics was on credit reporting.  Patrick decided to get his own credit report.  He was expecting a balance of $1700.  

He almost fell over when the little mechanical voice told him his balance was  $5300.  Much raising of eyebrows.  He promptly got in contact with a real live human representative of his credit card company and they looked at all charges over 100 dollars.  

One humongous one was for $3300 at a jewelry store.  As well as at a florist for 110 dollars.  Patrick called the store and they dug around and he told him that a couple of guys called in an order for some stuff and it would have worked except the one guy on parole got cold feet.  

So basically the store owner was not out anything and he credited Patrick with the 3300 dollars. Patrick contacted the local law in Eagle River who did some sleuthing and discovered that the two guys are ex-cons out on parole and they will be talking with the two lads. At one point it looked like one guy was locked up in pre-sentencing.  Patrick was hoping that part was true because is added to the story.  Nope. But he is getting his credit back under control.

Dr. Bob and family left last Friday.  Monica gets to move into their apartment in quarters.  She is thrilled, lower rent, no water bill, no taxi fare each way and she can walk to work in street clothes via nice heated hallway.

At this point in the original document I have a cute picture of grandson in his car carrier thing, what a cutie?  

10-6:  Tim deposited his check settle from his father's estate.  Together we might be able to come up with a down payment of some sort on property.  He will be looking at property with his sister, Carolyn, but is not too enthused about making a decision without me present.

Tim has been playing with  a program IBM VoiceType Simply Speaking Gold.  Close but no cigar so far.  He is still teaching the program his voice.

It feels like everyone is bailing out at work.  One of long time RN's, Bill Egan and his wife are moving to one of the villages, Nuiqsut. He will become a Village Health Aid and drop his credentials as a registered nurse. He says is burned out.  Get some rest, Bill.

10-7: Election day:  The burning issue yet again is whether or not to go damp or say dry.  Going damp won by 51 percent of the vote.  The City Council adopted an ordinance that special elections can only be held once a year.  So we won't wrangle over the same issue until NEXT October.

It was REAL drunk out last night. ER was already jumping with crying screaming drunk people.  Surprisingly we do not have a drunk tank there, that gets referred to PSO, they have been very busy.

There is actually a limit to how much liquor one can possess inside Barrow City the limits are five cases of beer, two cases of wine, one case of liquor.  Now there is a lot of paper work keeping track of who has ordered when and when.  Ugh.

Patrick called from the lower 48.  He had to undergo sudden surgery because his aneurysm is suddenly larger. He has Marfan's syndrome which is a connective tissue disorder disease which means he has to be alert things such a aneurysm's.  His Mom called and his surgery went well.  He will be out six to eight weeks.

I had a dream, I was talking with Judy Coltrin the whole time she was operating a piece of heavy duty equipment and was busy digging a trench.  (Smack head on desk.)

Monica is gone to Phoenix for the national MR meeting.  Warm there.

Tim left Sunday for Corvallis and Bradfords Iodine treatment.

Wednesday we had a murder in town.  A nephew killed his uncle. Method not disclosed.  Then Thursday morning pharmacy got a call from a little girl who said her Mom was cold.  The Cops went to that address and the mother had died.  Another coroner's case.

Thursday was also Dr. Maria Freeman's last day.  What a wonderful girl.  She actually takes time to type her own H&P's, I asked her once why she did that and she said that it helped her think about her patient better.  We went to her apartment for a potluck.  I took a dish of my famous tamale pie.  I told everyone that I was not taking it home.  And I didn't because the whole dish disappeared.  Later on one of the PHN nurses brought back the empty dish and begged for the recipe and it was so good she didn't want to share it with her children.  I make that recipe for Tim every once in a while.

Tim and Carolyn looked at a couple properties in North Bend. The driveway to the two car garage was too steep and one place the kitchen was too small.  Tim has tentatively named the new kitten Boja (bundle of joy alden).

10-18: Routine home chore things. I did tackle the wall of boxes and consolidated, rearranged and discarded a few.  Doing all this made the humidity drop to 21% so I fired up the Vornado to get things back under control.  

Patrick called the hospital about three times at 3 am on Monday, he was a little disoriented.  Called him Thursday and he was MUCH better, knew what day it was and everything.

Stupid dream involving a cat and a purse from which many things were missing.

Cooking gone awry.  I thought I had picked up a ham, it was a pork butt and promptly become destined to become Chiles Verde, took it all in my crock pot and brought back an empty crock pot.  I love when I don't have to deal with left overs.

Halloween Week:  Icky one of our former clerks got fired from her Pharmacy Tech job.  She had a disagreement with her native roommate, called PSO to be present when the girl came to move her stuff out of the apartment.  Then a whisper campaign started all about how Geri had told everyone what was in the girl's medical record.  Nope, I don't think so, but momentum took over and Geri was fired.

Halloween costumes.  Lots of people love to dress up.  Almost everyone did and had some cute ones as well. I wore a costume.  I wore a name tag that said Zen Nudist.  People would read the name tag and either look puzzled or laugh outright.  Didn't have to explain it to many folks.

UPS called and said I had packages.  Yay!  UPS does not deliver in Barrow, you gotta go pick it up. Got some stuff I had ordered also got the kit for the kitty tower and got that assembled, I have lots of left over pieces but it is a tall rectangle of carpet covered legs and arms with places for Bradford and Boja to play upon.

Tim called he and Carolyn attended a cat show and had a very good time. Now October is all done.  Sleepy time.

BUSH DIARY SEPTEMBER 1997

BUSH DIARY SEPTEMBER 1997:

9-2:  Rather quiet with the exception of the clinical director, Dr. M, who should know better, made a mess.  He came in to get caught up and strewed medical records all over the floor.  One of our coders had come in on Sunday  to do some work and she reported that it took her over an hour to get the mess straightened up and off the floor.  What a pig.  Will be glad when the man departs the station in October.  Today is also the day were started using the superbill.  The docs check off diagnoses for the billing department.

Worked very hard today.  I had to be telephone girl at 10 am and at noon for the front desk, so I ordered Teriyaki lunch and munched and slurped whilst answering phones, urp, 'scuse me. Also had to stick around to do a last minute dictation handed to me at 5:15 and I got home late enough the husband was thinking about sending out search and rescue.

Superbill: Hold that thought.  All of the doctors objected to the Superbill because they didn't know anything about it.  So let's hold a mini workshop. I shouldn't hafta think of everything.

I reviewed the photo CD and the Kodak photo disk.  They are really nifty.  I was able to print out a fairly decent picture on plain printer paper. I printed out pictures of Jordan age 9 months Mom and Dad holding him.  Cute boy!

Dream:  The medical record department got moved and it took a bit of exploring to find it.  I also dreamed a joke, I think.  I saw Bob Hope doing a routine with a large red umbrella and every once in a while he would sidle up to someone, shake their hand, peer closely at that person's fingers and muse, "Cuticles!".  No idea.....

Off to day one of the JCAHO survey.  The fog is very thick, if the plane does not land, survey will be delayed.  
Sure enough plane did not land, landed next morning at 10 am, the team appeared here rumpled and determined to be about the business.  Monica disappeared and I pulled appropriate charts for the team to review.  Ugh.  So glad I am not on the front line.

Day two of survey:  I noticed an odd thing.  All of the kick plates have been taken off of the hallway doors. It is apparently a Life Safety issue. Nurse survey said, "Take 'em off."  Jeez.

Did not see Monica for a report about the exit interview. Saw Ron Nalikak and he reported the hospital got a score of 85 with nine type one recommendations. Not bad. 

ODD STORY BUT TRUE:  Patrick asked me to sit with him and have lunch today so he could tell me a really good story.  I asked him if was true and he said that it was. At lunch he asked me if I remembered Will Adams.  

Boy did I, he was the guy who walked into the clinic expecting to be seen on his break and was quite upset that it was not going to work that way.  Mr. Adams moved to Barrow a few months ago and got a job in the local court house in the adult probation office.  As most new residents do, they wind up at the hospital for hep B series, tetanus update, TB screening the whole thing.  

Mr. Adams made a large negative impression on the nurses he was very ignorant, whining and the southern accent came and went.

One of Patrick's roommates is one of the local district attorney's, Brian.  A few weeks ago Brian was in Anchorage and while in the airport, Mr. Adams spotted him and came over to exchange greetings as they see each other in the probation office. After Will walked away from Brian another man came up to him  and identified himself as FBI.  

He asked Brian what he knew about Will.  So Brian told him everything he knew. It turns out Will Adams is not his name.  And he had served a sentence for murder (Canary Killer Murder, he strangled a canary in addition to the main thing).  Will was also under investigation for another matter as well. Shortly thereafter Will Adams left Barrow.  

It was discovered that he had been downloading kiddy porn on the computer at work.  So happy he is elsewhere. Erk.

Whaling news:  Four whales have been struck and landed.  Two of them were 45 and 50 foot long. Unaluk (oonaluk) is fresh boiled muktuk and is a big favorite amongst the locals.

Kitty Travel:  Tim has flight booked to take Bradford for his second round of I 131 later on in October.

True Bus Story:  This morning we were all gabbing and the new lady, Gwen stated that some bus drivers were not very helpful.  Patrick over heard the remark and he started laughing and said he had a true bus story:

This involved Frankln's D's wife Anna.  Franklin works in hospital maintenance and Anna works at AC.  One morning she was on the bus waiting to be let off by the driver and there was a drunk standing behind her  Anna started down the steps, the drunk decided she was not going fast enough and gave her a push.  Anna fell face down and the drunk fell right on top of her and then vomited all over her.  (At this point were laughing and gagging at the same time). The bus driver was good enough to get out of the bus and made an attempt to brush stomach contents from the back of Anna's coat.  It would have been truly disgusting if she had landed on her back.....

9-17:  Red Skelton died.  His show and Disney on Sunday evenings were a decades long viewing staple in the Berglund household.  TV viewing has changed so much.  We never turned on TV until after dinner and we all at the the table, there was no snacking, eating at a chair or anywhere else.

Driving dream.  

9-25: Permanent fund was announced in the amount of $1296.54, I find that simply amazing.  EVER citizen gets one of those. 

Let 'em eat cake.  We have had cake every day this week  because someone has been leaving Barrow.  Urp.

Another whale was landed yesterday. That makes eight whales caught in the Fall season so far.  One of the villages donated a strike and the meat will be shared out.

Let's put September to bed now.  G'night folks.

BUSH DIARY AUGUST 1997

BUSH DIARY AUGUST 1997:

Big fat baby trip:  Flew out Saturday August 2, caught the red eye out of Anchorage which was overbooked.  They asked for volunteers to take a later trip and by the dust settled there were actually a few vacant seats.  Go figure.
Got to Boise about 10 am Mom met me and boy is it HOT in Idaho, 98 degrees kind of hot in August is gruesome.  Got everyone visited, got baby stuff shopped and got all that packed in the car.  We took off on the 9th headed south and over nighted on Lovelock and visited the Casino and made a 50 dollar profit surprisingly.  Next stop was Boomtown the Southern side of Reno and visited the casino there and won a 70 dollar jackpot there.  Cool. 

Got to Sonoma a bit late because I took a shortcut that was a bit longer than I remembered.  We checked into the local Best Western Sonoma.  Visited with the family first thing next day.  Got all the baby stuff assembled.  I had purchased stroller/car carrier combo as well as a high chair.  I also got them a baby monitor.  Anthony is a cutie pie and has fine dark hair.  Smoochies.

We visited with Pat and Beth but mostly hung around and took gobs of pictures.  Mom had remade Charlies baby blanket and that was a big hit.  

Sonoma to Boise: Left 14th and bid fond farewell.  We drove back through Redwood country via 101. We stopped at Mysteries of the Redwood and walked until we saw very tall trees.  Later on we stopped briefly at one of the most beautiful rode side stops called Blue Star Highway.  

Gorgeous.  We drove to Grant's Pass and stayed there.  The town was jumping with a local fair and temp was 102!!!
We drove through the south Oregon route through the dry dusty parts through Vale, Ontario and at last Emmett.  Whoa, Nellie!  Carla had flown to Boise to preview at 64 Thunderbird but it did no please her. 

Gale gave Dads ashes to Carla he will visit Seattle for a while.  We flew back together-ish.  While there we toured the Redhook Brewery, delish! Finally got home to Barrow where it raining very hard.  It felt beautifully cool.

8-28: Getting caught up at work with birth certificates and charting, transcription. We have contracted with LTD of New Jersey for transcription, doc's call in and they type and fax us copies.  Whee!!

Work drama, one of our nurses swallowed a bottle of pills, so she got sent for a little mental vacation.  Barrow is a very challenging place to have a personal crisis.

Carla got laid off from Green Garden last Friday.  She is happy to get out of that job. She won't have any trouble finding work.  But it will be a good time to finish the deck.
Labor day weekend. 

 No internet access.  Barrow.com has decided they will not provide service until Tim and the Internet decide to speak to each other once again in a more civil manner.

Nifty recipe:  Jessie's mother-in-law brought in the most delicious little dumplings.  The dumpling skins are made of all things tapioca.  It gets softened and rolled into little skins to hold meat/veggie and then get cooked.  It was delicious. Mary Jo brought her dumpling back and told Jessie that it kept getting bigger in her mouth and she could not finish it.  Uh huh, this from the girl who loves fresh boiled muktuk. The dish is called Saccu.  I thought it was pretty darn tasty.

Ok, enough about the big fat vacation and a tiny bit of work.
  
G'night folks.

BUSH DIARY JULY 1997

BUSH DIARY JULY 1997:

7-1:  Only fall out from "rogue" ASNA meeting was that Dr. M handed all of the JACHO documentation and files to Monica for HER to do it.  I think she will be able to handle it without much effort.  

7-13:  Received official email notice of change of positions  at the hospital.  One of the ASNA people is coming over to be assistant hospital administrator.  Tom "resigned". Dr. M is still on board as he signed a three year contract.  Drat!

Patrick is back, he was not job hunting just having fun.  He also took Monica's truck in for servicing in the amount of 700 bucks, some of that was for four heaters to be installed and replaced all fluids with synthetics.

Charles and Leslie have decided the baby's name will be Anthony Scott Dougherty. That is a nice sturdy name for a boy child.  

Charles also reports that Grandma LaVann is not doing well.  She is in the hospital and the doc's wanted to put her in long term care and she refused.  Went back to the ranch and she has someone there taking care of her and she is apparently on oxygen. I have many fond memories of one of the strongest willed women I have ever known. I shall send flowers at the appropriate time.

7-14; Two weird dreams:  One was where I was in a very tall place such as the Space Needle.  Also took a tour of an SPCA stable for horses. I felt so sorry for them, they had no lower legs and were lying in lots of straw.  Poor things.

Thrift plan: Reviewed the goings on with that thing, it is doing well and I will leave it all alone and let it continue to make money.  Yay.

Travel dream:  I was packing my bag getting ready to leave the hotel.  One of the hotel people asked me if I was going to show my ticket to get on the plane.  Apparently the hotel people were check in agents for the airline. That is so handy I am surprised the Sheraton has not already thought of doing that.  Although they do have an Alaska desk in the lobby it has limited people and limited hours.

Monica's truck gets put on the barge on the 29th and then she will be committed to staying in Barrow for a couple of years.  She is flying to Anchorage to make a deposition on behalf of John Morrow.

7-17-97:  Happy Birthday to Anthony Scott Dougherty.  Delivered via c-section at Community Hospital(Sutter) in Santa Rose, California. Everyone is doing well.  Must get grandma stuff.

7-18:  Local vet called to tell us that Bradford's T4 came back and he is once again hyperthyroid.  He is on Tapazole and Bradford has discovered that there are pills hidden in the cream cheese and has begun chewing very carefully.  Tim has taken to manually inserting his meds manually and checking that he has swallowed. The med is to remind the thyroid to get to work.

7-20: Sad news from California.  Grandma LaVann passed away about 9 pm on the 19th. Services will be in Santa Rosa. She will be buried next to her first husband in Colma, California, a town south of San Francisco well known for the funeral industry.  Sent flowers to Uncle Phil.

7-22: Today a former medical record clerk delivered a baby boy.  She decided to adopt the baby out.  The adoptive mom is a former medical record receptionist.  It is quite common for babies to be adopted by relatives or friends up here.  It's a cultural thing.

7-26: Mock JCAHO survey.  Two people came and surveyed the hospital. Results is that they found about 20 type I recommendations.  Our major ones were Safety, Human Resources (we recruit too much but there are reasons for that) and Leadership (there IS none at present).  We can probably clean up two thirds of those by November.

Latest nonsense at work. Dr. Bob took it upon himself to hire a rad tech, named Ellen.  She took the job, took a week off from Providence to do all the moving stuff and showed up here. Yesterday Dr. Bob brought around a new employee and introduced her as  the new x-ray manager and it was not Ellen.  ??? Dr. Bob completely skipped the ASNA HR people and things are a mess.  I smell another law suit.   Dr. Bob and family are leaving for Guam soon.  Banging head on desk.  And the new lady has to take a three month school for ultrasound.

Summer building boom is nuts. The Cultural Center is going up very quickly.  It is a huge building and will be handy for many of the events held in town. 

There is a new hotel across the street from Alaska Airlines. 

 Still no expansion at Alaska Airlines, their itty bitty terminal is very crowded. People stand around the baggage area and someone in the crowd yells, hey that is my bag, pass it back, so someone in front grabs that bag and hands it overhead to the back.
  
Mary Jo Santos got the keys to move into her new house.  She got her keys one evening and then promptly lost them while visiting on the Canadian ice cutter.  The crew found the keys  and returned them to her the next day.

The Martha Black is moored just off shore.  They are in town to discuss Salmon Treaty stuff.  They had an open house and tons of people went out.  Monica went to lunch with the captain.  Woot!

Another big build is the gigantic multi-million gallon water tank going up just behind the hospital.

Taking the red eye this coming Saturday, one drink and its lights out.

Update on JACHO survey. For some damn reason it has been scheduled for September.  Oh bother.

July is almost over, it is very noisy here in the summer.  I keep my fan going in the window for ambient noise.  Ah, sleep.  

G'night folks.

BUSH DIARYJUNE 1997:

BUSH DIARY JUNE 1997:

Red Alert:  Our billing concerns mentioned in the previous posting ie; Dr M's insisting that one ICD9 code from page one and one CPT code from page two was adequate and if the diagonsis of the actual medical record did not match?  No big deal.

Um, yeah it is a big deal.  Our main third party payor, Pacific Care, has put the hospital billing on Red Alert.  That means that all bills are being automatically rejected for review of coding and/or diagnoses. Aetna is next, then Medicare, then OIG.  Fortunately Monica has extensive documentation of the objections to the physician driven coding.  Oy, Paperwork!!!

Dreaming:  Toured a high end manufacturing facility.  Also shopping dream.  I was shopping for angels with not much luck.

Chat rooms:  I shall eschew them not having found intelligent life.

6-17:  Gruesome morning. Two car collision and young man and young woman involved, the girl was killed.  She was the daughter of a former medical record clerk.

Nalukatuk is this week, I shall take the afternoon off and go take a lookie loo, it is much fun. Sometimes a tourist lands wrong and the hospital gets some business. Oy.

6-26: Gorgeous day.  Plus 50 degrees, blue skies, tons of walk-in's. Hmmm.

Potluck at work today:  The inpatient manager is leaving for ANMC.  The pharmacist and his wife are leaving for Oklahoma.  He just made captain in the corps and they are both pleased.

Gossip; Heard that the assistant hospital administrator, is shacking up with one of the nurses.  A person must be careful about things like that because we all sort of live in a fish bowl and most every naughty thing quickly becomes a topic of conversation at coffee break.

6-27:  Monica took several concerns from the hospital to ASNA.  One specific item was the assistant hospital administrator wanted to start storing supplies off site.  Um, no that is not workable especially if someone runs out of something and it is not  readily available.  AND Dr. P complained that Dr. M had a lack of experience as a clinical director.  Lots of venting and a promise from ASNA to take a closer look at concerns.  That is pretty fair.

Baby news:  Charlie said they are going to have a baby boy.  Name discussion ensued.  Mom and I will be driving down in August for a visit.  Yay!

June 30:  Dr. M handed over all of the JCAHO stuff to Monica.  She will get it done right.  The assistant hospital administrator had a very loud and unintelligible conversation in his office with Monica.  He is going to personally see that everyone attending the "rogue" meeting with ASNA would be fired.  


Patrick has quietly extended his vacation. if he is interviewing I will scalp him!  He better just be chasing girls!
Boy that had better be quite enough from you, June!

G'night folks.

BUSH DIARY MAY 1997

BUSH DIARY MAY 1997:

5-1:  Have the recently purchased Dell computer set up and running.  Have signed up with Barrow Cable TV for online service.  That gives us access to the internet.  I was given a disc with Juno  on it and we are signed up for that. It works like this.  You compose a message off line and then go on to Juno to transmit the email via modem screew, scrawww, booooo, beeee, scrawww.  Eee.  

Playing with the scanner not happy with results so far.   Am collecting sibling and family emails as they occur to the connected members. 

Tim called, his Horizon flight got cancelled so he stayed in Seattle  and will not get into Boise to get the car and will just rent  local.  Good plan.

Monica is gone the next three weeks; to Albuquerque for IHS stuff, Anchorage for orientation to ANMC and JACHO stuff.  I get to acting behotch what's in charge.

Wash token update:  It is official the cost per token will go up one dollar to three dollars each which is one load of wash.  The tokens are different shaped now. l The round ones have been changed to star shaped one.  Which will probably jam in the slide thing easier.  Oh yay.  We exchanged our bunch of old tokens and got 30 bucks for them.  

5-15:  A total of seven whales were taken this Spring.  Muktuk everywhere.  And it is evident from the clinic that everyone has eaten plenty of muktuk, the smell of whale farts is most abundant.  Somebody open a window!

5-17:  While Tim is gone I shall take the opportunity to clean out some empty cardboard boxes, still have the original eight that I originally shipped up here.  Why, dunno, but they are going to the dumpster.  Sold the old computer to Monica's daughter, Tasha.

I have been playing a CD-ROM disc of the game "Myst".  It has very graphic and pretty scenery.  You wander all over an island and solve puzzles, at which I am abysmal, but it is very pretty.

I got lonesome and booked a flight to Seattle. Tim met me and we visited with Carla.  We ate at Cucina! Cuchina! good food, very noisy. We drove to Albany and Carolyn and her husband drove us to look at some property they own in Coquille.  The house was jam packed with a couple families, packed to the ceiling in the center hallway and the sunroom and there was a narrow hallway through the living room and dining room.  Upstairs, had all three bedrooms busy with people and their computers.  Attic has a couple mattresses for the kids to sleep on.  Very crowded house. 

We picked up Bradford from the Vet on Tuesday and drove north, stayed overnight at Carla's and flew to Barrow next day.  Bradfords T4 dropped from 29 to 12, normal is 8 or so. Will do follow up test in a couple weeks.

Chatted with Charles and Leslie looks like due date is 7-19.  Have tickets booked for an August baby viewing.

5-10 Traveling dream. well of course.

And are my arms ever tired.  G'night folks.