Monday, November 24, 2014

Update on Doug's eye

We went back to the doctor today.  The good news is that the infection is all clear.  The bad news is that it has left a lot of damage.
The newest picture is the one on the top left and middle top.  What you see on the left is a damaged circle on the bottom of the cornea.  That circle has very little tissue.  The picture top middle that looks like a line, is the shape of his cornea.  That drop is lost tissue.  There should be a nice curve.
Doug is still on all medications.  Antibiotics are needed because the tissue is an open wound.  They are precautionary at this point. Steroid is taken because small blood vessels grew into the cornea to heal the infection.  Only problem is, white blood cells also cause rejection.  The course of treatment now is medication and a "healing contact".  I never heard of this.  The contact works like a bandaid to keep the eyelid from tearing the open tissue.  The doctor will recheck him next Monday.  Hopefully this "bandaid" will help the antibiotics heal the open tissue.  If this fails, the next option is something else I have never heard of.  A piece of amniotic tissue will be sewn over the open would to promote healing.  The amniotic tissue is lab grown and has no DNA of it's own so Doug's body won't try to reject it as a foreign body.  Let's hope we don't have to go that route.
We leave tomorrow for Tunica.  Looks like a good time for me to drive again.  Doug's vision is better or maybe I should say it is "near normal" for him.  Doug has not have good vision (20/100) in that eye since he was a small child.  This is "normal vision" for him.  Prayers are welcome and appreciated.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Well it's back to the doctor tomorrow

Doug didn't have a good day with his eye.  In fact, it looks horrible now.  I know it had a lot of trauma when they took the culture and I expected it to look worse, but this is really bad.  After a call, they decided they should see him again tomorrow.  We should have just taken the motorhome to Maumelle Park and stayed all week.  This will be our 4th trip to Little Rock this week.

On a different note:
I thought I would post our expense sheet for our trip.   Fuel costs would have been a lot better if we hadn't spilled about $100 worth.  We averaged 9 mpg on this trip but think it would have been closer to 10 without the spill.  Being in 10,000+ alt. I think even the 9 mpg was good and yet our best mpg was our fill up leaving the Grand Tetons.
Our campground costs (in green) almost equaled our fuel costs.  Maybe on the next trip we will try boondocking some.  I am spoiled to having full hookups so I don't know if that would go over or not. It might work for me if it was a only a 1 night stay between campground stops.
We traveled 4,288.5 miles.  I look forward to our next long trip which will be next summer.  We need to start planning that one soon.  I am sure we will take a few short ones before that just because I can't stay out of the motorhome that long.
Happy travels all.
Later













start
end
miles driven
gallons
mpg
fuel cost
campground
cost 
DATE TO
Date

TOTAL

74236





Maumelle COE Park
$24.00
9-8-14
9-9-14
Maumelle, AR








Springhill COE park
$10.00
9-9-14
9-10-14
AR



74604
367.8
43.403
8
$151.00
Flying J Fuel



MO.








Big Red Barn Campground
$29.00
9-10-14
9-11-14
MO








Blue Springs Campground
$52.00
9-11-14
9-13-14
Blue Springs, MO








Bluffs Run @ Horseshoe Casino Iowa/NE
$60.00
9-13-14
9-15-14
Council Bluffs, IA


74604
75001
402.0
43.3
9
$165.00
Flying J Fuel/Council Bluffs



Council Bluffs, IA








R&R Campground
$22.79
9-15-14
9-16-14
Mitchell, SD


75001
75401
394.5
40.8
9

Pilot Murdo, SD



Murdo, SD








Sleepy Hollow RV Campground
$62.01
9-16-14
9-18-14
Wall. SD








Happy Holiday RV Resort
$163.53
9-18-14
9-22-14
Rapid City, SD


75401
75815
413.1
50.024
8
$200.05
Pilot Murdo, SD



Casper, WY








Fort Casper RV Campground
$21.75
9-22-13

Casper, WY








Grand Teton RV Resort
$203.55
9-23-14
9-26-14
Moran, WY


75815
76264
449.9
41.92
10
$160.64
Flying J Fuel

9-26-14

McCammon, ID








Golden Spike RV Resort
$31.68
9-26-14
9-27-14
Brigham City, UT


76264
76606
342.2
41.039
8
$155.50
Flying J Fuel

9-27-14

Beaver, UT








Arizona Charlies RV CG
$96.78
9-27-14
9-29-14
Las Vegas, NV








Grand Canyon Railroad RV Resort
$66.72
9-29-14
10-4-14
Williams, AZ.
passport america


77076
469.8
47.675
9
$173.50
Flying J Fuel



Bellemont,AZ








USA RV Park
$69.49
10-4-14
10-6-14
Gallup, NM








Coronado RV Park
$120.00
10-6-14
10-9-14
Albuquerque, NM
city park :(


77495
418.5
38.348
10
$143.00
Flying J Fuel

10-9-14

Moriarty, NM








Mountain Road RV Park
$27.75
10-9-14
10-10-14
Tucumcari, NM








Oasis RV Park
$65.50
10-10-14
10-12-14
Amarillo, TX








Fort Amarillo RV Park
$250.00
10-12-14
10-22-14
Amarillo, TX



77755
260.6
26.572
9
$98.02
Flying J Fuel



Amarillo, TX








North Texas jellystone resort
$25.00
10-22-14
10-23-14
Burleson, TX
Yogi bear 


78184
428.1
65.031
6
$236.00
Flying J Fuel



Waco, tx
spilled abt 25 ga. of fuel







Yegua Campground
$39.00
10-23-14
10-26-14
Lake Summerville, TX








Westlake RV Resort
$124.98
10-26-14
10-29-14
Houston, TX



78526
342.0
36.737
9
$135.89
Sulphur Truck Stop

10-29-14
10-29-14
Sulphur, LA








Paragon Resort/Casino
$34.65
10-29-14
11-1-14
Marksville, La.






























4288.5
474.849
9.00
$1,618.60

$1,600.18



$3,218.78