In this post first family.
Family is distant so most of our impressions are passed on by a second person. Illness, surgery, school progress are examples. In comparison using emergency room visits, I have had two so details are part of the story. One in 2005 and one this summer. This summer was ill advised but gave me a course of action. Details --- a common old age skin growth may have been infected and had a BAD odor. And of course it was Saturday. The advice was, "see your primary care provider" (one hundred miles away). To finish the story I did as above getting an appointment two days later. Even better, the follow-on skin referral was very quick. My mind was at ease in less than a week.
Emergency room visits 1500 miles away are mostly unreported or given a brief mention.
We will travel 220 miles south for Thanksgiving. Details of that visit will all be firsthand. And now a mention of weather. A late in the month Thanksgiving means colder air and snow. An unknown for this trip.
