6:30 PM - Just got back from going to the beach with Emmy. This vacation has been anything but "grand", mainly because of yours truly. To put it blandly I've been a real "DB" because starting the second day I was in a lot of pain in my right hip that just seemed to continually get worse. Finally went to the ER yesterday, had been putting it off because I don't really have health insurance right now. They diagnosed me with bursitis on the hip bone on my right side. I forget the technical mumbo jumbo of it now. The doc was real nice and I told him there was no way I wanted to consider cortisone or surgery so they were off the table. After telling him how many extra strength Tylenol and IBU Profen I had been popping though, I told him it was a good idea to get something maybe a bit stronger? He gave me a prescription for Tylenol with codeine which seems to be helping more now. However, I owe a huge apology to everyone else on the trip, especially Emmy because I have been irritable, moody, as well as tired, cranky, you name it. She doesn't deserve that. Today the rest of the family, Scott, Liana, little Jane, and Kara went up to Monterey in California, but we only had one car so Emmy and I were stuck here. We made the best of it and she mapped out a route to get to Pismo Beach I think it was where we could go kayaking and whatever. Only we went to the bus stop and there was no sign! Then the bus showed up and hung a left and we were left holding the bags and yelling "Hey! Hold that bus!" It didn't stop so we walked to another stop, only to discover we'd be on the bus about forty minutes longer if we took that than wait the hour for the bus to return. So sure enough at the top of the hour again, :08 after is when the bus comes, we were there on the right side of the road and ready! But he saw us, hung the corner and again kept on going. So by 1:30pm we were back at the house where we started, having walked about 2 miles and not really getting anywhere. I told Emm my hip was okay so we decided to bike the 3 miles to the beach. My hip was okay, the biggest surprise was that Scott's bike you have to use clipped shoes. I slowly got the hang of them, this being the second time in my life ever trying them on and first time outside of a parking lot! Made it to the beach fine and went thumping through the waves. Hip still hurts. We fed a bunch of seagulls that almost attacked us! I was scared but of course Emmy wasn't. Afterwards as the sun was setting we biked home, stopping at the grocery store Vons for some salad and soup stuff! Through the stuff in the panier (really nice invention for a bike!) and came home. Just about to turn the left corner to come up to the cal-de-sac and boom! Emmy stopped and I saw too late and couldn't get the clip out and down I went on my right hip (the bursitis one). Luckily my right kneecap absorbed the brunt of the blow on the curb and my left hand went out to help too. Now going to have some soup and salad with a cutie, tell her I love her and am sorry, and going to ice ice ice, codeine, ice, and watch a movie while we snuggle! A good end nonetheless to a junky week. Going to see a specialist and doctor when I get home. Tomorrow's flight should be interesting to say the least!
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