DETOUR!!

One thing about RV living is you have to make reservations for your site months in advance or you risk spending the night on the parking lot at Walmart.

I had made our plans and reservations to leave Dickinson, (South of Houston) spend 2 nights in Louisiana (take a 2 hour swamp tour in a flat-bottom boat) and move on to Alabama.

Then, Stone Mountain park outside Atlanta.  We had tickets to a Braves game at the new ballpark in Atlanta and that would have completed Jane's quest to attend a game in every major league ballpark.

Eventually, we were going to stop in Cooperstown, NY to visit the baseball hall of fame and then attend a game at Fenway Park in Boston, which would have completed my list of parks.

But, I guess my heart wasn't in it or at least that's what my cardiologist said.  I have mentioned in previous entries that we have to live by James 4:15 which says, "What you ought to say is, "if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

A couple months ago I experienced chest pains while playing softball and again playing pickleball.
So when I mentioned it to my PCP, he immediately scheduled me for a stress test.  The cardiologist got me on the treadmill, did the EKG and sent me for a calcium score.  Bottom line, the calcium score showed elevated levels indicating some hardening of the arteries and possible blockage.

She wanted to schedule an angiogram and possibly surgery to insert a stent, so we cancelled our trip east and all the reservations I had spent hours making.

We also decided to get a second opinion from a cardiologist I had seen 3 years ago.

He advised against getting the angiogram and suggested I stop taking a beta blocker the other Dr. had put me on.  And said my calcium score was nothing to be alarmed about.  He said we'll monitor things and if I have no problems I'll see him when we are back in Texas in Sept.

So instead of going to New England, we planned a last minute trip to Denver/Cheyenne/Yellowstone and the Badlands of South Dakota. Making our site reservations on such short notice resulted in us staying at RV parks off the beaten path, but so far, so good.   We should arrive at the lake in Arkansas the last week of June, that is, "if the Lord wills and we live."  Stay tuned for news of our trip west....maybe we will make the trip east next year.