A Week In Review...

........let me just take a minute to tell you about our last week.  You probably already know about last Monday.....it was a great day!  We went out for breakfast, Poppa & Squeegie went golfing...then we went for supper at Longhorn Steakhouse.  Yep - a great day!  On Tuesday Poppa said he wasn't feeling quite right, but didn't have any specific complaints or symptoms.  So, we took it easy that day...a trip to the Post Office was the epitome of our excitment...other than that we lazed around the pool, read books, I did some knitting - you know, all the stuff we do when we are on holiday in Florida!  Wednesday morning Poppa is feeling worse - he has a headache, abdominal pain - and, oh yes...he was well...trotting a lot.  This went on until Friday and finally we decided he should go see someone.  So off we went to the walk-in clinic (the good news - we found one very close to the villa).  We arrived there about 3pm and left there about 6pm with three prescriptions - one for lab diagnostics, and two for medication.  Of course, by the time we got out of the clinic it was too late to go to the lab - so that had to wait until yesterday.  He is starting to feel better - they think he had Norwalk virus, but won't know for sure until the lab work is completed.  Today is the first day he has shown any enthusiasm about eating.  But, it gets worse yet.........now I am afflicted with the same darn thing.....so my energy level is about zilch!  Hopefully a week from now, we will both be recovered.  Thankfully, part of my retirement benefits includes out-of-country medical expenses...and when I called Great West Life they were extremely nice and helpful and we went today and mailed off the receipts and forms to try to recover some of the funds.  For all the horror stories we have heard about the cost of medical treatment here, we were surprised .. it seemed quite reasonable to us.  The lab work was expensive, the doctor visit and prescriptions were not...in our opinion.  By the way....

....in Florida - they call this winter!