Unplanned Visit to Hospital

It was around 10:30 AM while we were getting ready to go to the Thousand Trails campground and select our site for the next 3 weeks. As Josie was gathering up the trash to dispose on the way out I heard this loud "Ohh! Oww!" and looked up, and saw here grab her thumb and hold it in the air. She had pushed down on the trash in the bag and cut her thumb on a loose can lid that was in the bag. It looked pretty nasty so we went up the street to the CVS Pharmacy that has a mini clinic with a Nurse on staff. She recommended we go to the hospital emergency since it was a deep cut and most likely needed stitches. She was right.

I decided that, after Josie got settled in a treatment room in the emergency, that I should go to Thousand Trails alone to select the site before all the good ones are taken while she waits for the doctor. We were fortunate to get the same, nice site, that we had before going into the cabin a couple weeks ago. With that done, I returned to the hospital and Josie was just finishing up - with 5 new stitches in her thumb. We celebrated by having a late breakfast at Denny's.

That was not a good start to our day, although we were now set to return later to Thousand Trails with our site already assigned. The next item on the agenda was Camping World, where we arrived around 3:30 after packing up and leaving the Sherwood Forest campground, to have our water pump checked. For a while, it seemed like they might be able to fix the current pump, but after several tries, realized they had to replace it once again. This one - our 5th - is replacing the pump that was just installed in January. Believe it or not, they tried to charge us the labor for installing it. After they peeled me off the roof, they went ahead and installed it at no charge. The gall! Charging labor to replace an item that they installed 30 days prior! It was then on to our home site for the next 3 weeks.

We made a trip to Sam's Club and then Walmart, to get an antibiotic prescription for Josie's thumb, then settled in for the night. It was a busy day, and not all pleasant, but we're ready to attack the next few weeks, starting with my next work day tomorrow. In the meantime, we may try a new mini golf course today that is not too far from here - if Josie can play with her thumb bandaged. Who knows, it may be the ingredient for a better swing and better score...