Knee Feels Good So Far

 Yuma, Arizona        High 86 Low 58

The weather here has been windy almost every day, with hot weather predicated by the weather guessers. It is supposed to get to 100 by Thursday, so we are planning to go back to the frozen North on Wednesday. So far that looks like our best travel day.

I told about my knee issues on my last post, so I had heard of a procedure from people here in our Park, which is injections, in Los Algodones. I made an appointment for last Tuesday morning. There are two procedures the Doctor does, one uses your blood platelets and reinjects them with a solution, into where ever the pain is, and the other uses glucose with some other meds, which are injected into painful sites. We chose the later, partly because of cost, and the Doctor thought I would be okay with just the meds. 

The examination is he presses on your knee and surrounding areas and he asks if it hurts. If it does he injects the solution. I think I counted about 75 shots before he was finished. Then your are sent to a physical therapist, where she treats you with heat and ultra-sound. 

After it was done, my leg felt a lot better, so well that I decided to drive to San Luis to see our Mexican Dentist to get a broken tooth taken care of. It required a new crown, which was ready the next day.

So far, I haven't had any pain, but time will tell. The procedure and therapy cost $610.00, which seemed a little high for Mexico. but the other people I have talked to, said it lasts a long time. 

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More Dinners

 Yuma, Arizona    High 83 Low 59

Still nice weather.

We had two dinners to go to. One was put on by the Park, and one was for the small dog Park group.

We usually have about twenty people at the dog Park every afternoon, and Penny will start bothering me to go about an hour too early. I have talked to other dog owners and they tell me their dogs do the same thing. They sure like to see all their friends.

We were going to have this dinner outside, but it was too hot.

Then next pictures are the dinner put on by the Park for all the volunteer helpers.

This picture is the group at the small dog park.

And of course Penny wanting to go to the dog park.

I usually play shuffle board 3 time per week. We play with bowling pins one time per week. This week they added a golf ball on one of each players discs. The object is if you knock the pin over or the ball out of the disc, you get 10 points deducted. but if the golf ball is counting, you double your score for that spot. It really changes the way you can play the game. We play teams and we not only won, but had the highest score I have seen, since I've been playing.

Last March, I did something to my knee, and it has been hurting me since. I did go to the Doctor and got a shot in the knee, which helped for about a week. The shot cost the insurance and my co-pay $3500. Since it didn't last, I haven't done any more, but I have hear from some people in the Park about a treatment they got in Mexico, that has really helped them, so Tuesday, I am going to try it. The next picture is about how I feel walking now.

I'll let you know how the procedure goes.

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Italian Dinner

 Yuma, Arizona      High 83 Low 53

At least it cooled off a little after hitting almost 100 early in the week. We have got some wind, but not as bad as sometimes.

The Park had an Italian Dinner pitch-in. Several groups were together and each group pitched in for their own table. We had a group of 8, while our neighbor was with 28. 

This was our group and our table decorations below.

The following table won first place for decorations.

Again, the next picture is our table.

One of the local charities puts on a yard sale twice a year. We went to it and the next picture is all the people in line, waiting to go in.

Last summer,  our Palm trees got distressed and I think it was because the Park irrigation system cut back on the water too much, and so I decided to put my own sprinklers to the trees. There is a conduit going under our front patio and I found a root in the pipe. When I measure it, it was 20 feet long. that is what I'm holding in the next picture. It wasn't very big in diameter, but if it got bigger, it could cause a lot of damage.

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You Can't Go Back

 Yuma, Arizona         High 89 Low 56

It is starting to get warm here. It probably is time to think about going back to Utah.

The Park had a two day event they called Palmstock. It was a thing that remined everyone of Woodstock. We called it Hippie Days. People dressed up like hippies and played games and had lots of food. It was a two day thing. The first day was games and food.

This is as close to being Hippies as Cindy and I got.

When we got to where the party was, We noticed an ambulance close by, which soon left. We found out later that someone had taken the hippie thing too far and had smoked some pot. It had an adverse reaction on him and he started falling down and so someone called 911. I bet that the para-medics got a big kick over someone being a hippie at his age and seeing all the hippie costumes. This is where I got the name of this Post.

The second day was mostly water games.

The final event was the Hula-hoops. The winner had her hoop going for almost 4 minutes. She looked like she could have gone on a lot longer because it looked like very little effort to keep the hoop going.

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