Blog 71 More Trying Times, Life or Death
On 23rd Jun 2023 Scan0013 (This picture is about 4 months after my radiation…
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(Anna was Pregnant but single. She asked me to fill in and the photographer thought that I was the father, and every picture shows that idea!)
(When you have to go, you have to go!)
Nearing the end of our drive to Telluride, We needed directions (before GPS) and I needed to use the bathroom. We went into a small town thinking I would find a gas station or store so I could excuse myself. However, the town was so small there was nothing but a small store that would not let me use their bathroom. They told us two ways to get to the resort, One was longer by fifteen miles that they said was the easiest. It was forty miles. Then he said , If you feel you can go around the mountain on the left side of the town, it would only be 25 miles.
I had to get to a bathroom soon so we decided to go around the mountain. BOY, did I make a mistake! It had recently snowed and the road was almost a singular lane. Because I did not have snow wheels, I was moving ten to twenty miles an hour. Every now and then, a car would pass and I would have to pull close to the edge and let them go by. We were headed UP the mountain and the altitude was only making me hurt more.
Robert would not let me speed up and people were coming up behind me. I, therefore, could not stop and just go. And, we did not have a container that I could use. So, I could feel the pressure pushing drops out. By the time we got to the top, there was a park. I saw a bathroom and I hurried to get to it. OOOOHHHHH, what a relief it is! I noticed that I had a small wet circle on my pants, But it gets worse.
We asked another group if we were going in the right direction. We had already been driving almost two hours. They asked us what we were doing on the Deadman’s Mountain? We let them know that we were told it was the closest way to get to Telluride. After laughing, they said we were only halfway there and we had to keep going now DOWN the other side of the mountain, but it was as bad as the way up.
So, knowing we still had up to two hours, we took off. The people were very right, the driving was just as bad. Now, it did not take long to realize that the descent down was putting pressure on my bladder again. Within thirty minutes, I was feeling full again. During the way going down, Robert was much more adamant that I go slow. I tried to tell him that I would NOT make another hour to relieve myself. (He did not care…..) So, on we go with my bladder overflowing and I was in PAIN trying to hold it. Again, I began leaking (unknowingly).
It felt like FOREVER, but we finally found the entrance into Telluride. We went through the town, not yet knowing that our hotel was up in the mountain. Well, we made it and we had to valet park. I got out of the car while asking the valet where the bathroom was at. He directed me and I then looked down and saw that I had a HUGE round wet circle. I asked for my hand bag and I held it in front of me as I stepped into this BEAUTIFUL front room of the hotel. I know I was so embarrassed. I got to the bathroom and I never wanted to leave it.
I came out of the restroom and met Robert at the Counter. I still had my bag in front of me. The man taking us to our room tried to grab my bag and put it on the luggage rack. I told him that I was fine carrying it. When we got to the room and were finally alone, I showed Robert my pants. We both started laughing hysterically. I was embarrassed, but it is just my luck that we get to stay at a Five Star Hotel and I have gone to the bathroom in my pants, then had to check-in before I could go and change.
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15th May 2020
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I think I’m finally all caught up uncle Millard…. it’s been an emotional roller coaster for sure. For your readers that don’t know, i was fortunate enough to follow Millard into radiology, but i do x-Ray, cAt scan, and mri. I graduated from school back in 1995 and i have many stories like yours, including one where i was doing an exam on a local newsman from Dallas who passed before i graduated where he was seated on a gurney in the hall and i saw he needed help so i ran over and he needed To vomit. So i ran to grab an Emesis basin (the tiny kidney shaped ones) and as i ran back (approaching him from behind) i got the pan under his mouth just in time for him to release a stream of vomit straight from the movie ‘the exorcist’! Of course i had the curve in the basin pointed directly into my face!