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Sunday, August 20, 2017

The "The Road to Oregon - A Day in Corvallis", edition.

Good Sunday morning. Yes. Still on the trip. I enjoyed the trip because of the new experiences. Ok so we're at the hotel on Corvallis, the Hilton Garden Inn right on campus across  deep in  middle of the Oregon State University sports complex, directly across the street from the football stadium. The hotel room was paid for by Shawn's employer and we stayed with her. The kid delighted at taking care of her folks. :-D  She'll be staying there until she gets an apartment. There is a hitch though. Corvallis is one of the locations for the the total eclipse. And the hotel rooms had been reserved long before the kid even planned the move. So she's being displaced for a day. To north of Portland! (!!!) hooray for the path of totality? 

So we start the morning with Brian heading down to get us some bagels and coffee. The room has a Keurig, but we were unimpressed. And the hotel has a restaurant (!) not something you see much of anymore. Brian also starts the set up for the  dialysis machine. So even though it's portable, he has to assemble some pieces and then set it up..insert a cartridge, hang 6-7 bags of dialysate and a saline bag. Then prime the machine...which includes getting air bubbles out of the cartridge because air bubbles are bad. Don't want an air bubble running through my veins. Yikes!  Then I have to prep me..you know, asceptic technique, cleaning the hell out of my arm and access, then inserting the needles and finally Brian hooking me up to the machine. Sounds depressing doesn't it. It is, but it keeps me alive. It takes up to an hour just to prep, then I'm dialyzing for 3-4 hours. Talk about a time sink. Ugh. Anyway. 

Shawn was there for all the fun, but my child likes to sleep and she was simultaneously decompressing from Illinois and getting ready for a new phase..recharging if you will. I finished treatment around noon. After treatment I was ok. Yay!! So we went apartment hunting with the kid. Phone GPS got us around Corvallis. It's not big...population of 50k maybe, but remember there's a state university there. Heh. At one point a street ended as it went up a mountain. Lol. We went past her work place, and several apartments. And finally stopped at what we thought was a grocery store, but it was actually more like a small Meijers. And the name of the store was Fred Meyers. We all got the irony. Lol. Oh yeah. They had eclipse glasses so we bought some. And yes, she is staying in the hotel for a few weeks, but she still needed groceries. She has a mini fridge and a microwave. This is not new. Last summer she spent almost 2 months in a hotel in Edgefield, SC. The good news is she should be in an apartment by the the first week of September. 

After we shopped we went to lunch. What we learned about Corvallis is there is an overabundance of microbreweries.  Every restaurant brewed their own beer.  Even the deli we went to for lunch. More beer and coffee than you can imagine!!!  And bikes!  

We got back to the hotel. Brian and Shawn broke down the dialysis machine and packed it up so we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning.  Oh yeah. Knowing how terrifying the route back to Las Vegas would be, I suggested changing the route, taking I-5 back to Vegas instead of back roads through national forests and funky mountain roads.  I had enough time to cancel the hotel reservation in Reno. Maybe new reservations near Sacramento. But Brian and Shawn (who wasnt driving back) said no, it would be ok. I did adjust the return route to take the interstate as far south as possible. We still then had to head east to Reno. The map didn't look promising. 

That's it for today.  You got the dialysis angle right smack dab in the middle of the entry.  We're about done cleaning out the condo for the renters. Cleaning people tomorrow, painting and carpet cleaning this week. I think by mid September we'll be able to exhale. And I can get my dog. That's why we moved!  Lol lol.  Have a great Sunday!!! 

The tree of shoes I forgot to add yesterday. 



This is what we have to pack when I travel. I have several boxes of those hanging bags. And the cartridge is that thing sticking out the side of the machine. 



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