On Sat we went to LA to surprise Scott for his 30th B-day. Heidi had set up an elaborate plan to surprise Scott. She told him that they were going somewhere for his b-day, instead we were at the airport waiting for them. From there we went to there house and walked to a bar a couple blocks away where the shoulder dislocating bus was waiting for us along with 20 of his friends. We got on the bus and went to the Poop Deck to grab some beers. Waiting for us there were Scott's Parents, sister and brother in law, friends from MN and CA. After that we picked up Dane at another bar and were off to dinner. By this time it was 6 or 6:30. We had a couple drinks are were ready for some dinner. About that time, while on the bus Scott's friend Billy told me that Erica had just dislocated her shoulder.
She was just riding like everyone else holding on to the rail over her and her shoulder popped out. We were just about to the restaurant and so we called the ambulance. They arrived shortly and wanted to put a sling on her arm but they did not have one. Really well prepared. She was in great pain and but they were not really concerned about that. They put her on the gurney and wheeled her to the ambulance. While they were putting her in back they seemed to hit every bump and all the bars. Then instead of a short ride to the near by ER we had to got 7 miles to one that was not as busy. When we got there shortly after 7 and the morphine not kicking in yet we waited and waited. X-Rays happened about 8 and then more morphine. It finally began to work about 8:30. It wasn't until 11 that we were visited by a doctor. After he came it only took about 30 minutes until they popped her shoulder back in and she started feeling better. We got released at 12:30 and low and behold the bus came to pick us up.
The next day we sat around and watched football and played wii. Erica got her medicine and began feeling less pain. Monday we toured around a little bit and took our flight home. Erica had to go see a doctor on Tuesday. She gave good news saying that Erica would not need surgery. They gave her a new immobilizer and we were on our way. Erica took the rest of the week off and returned to work the next Monday with minimum pain. Her arm is healing and getting stronger by the day.
We are now just preparing for Christmas away from our families and our first together. We have sent out gifts and done much shopping on-line. Our tree is small but and has a few packages underneath. This weekend we are going to see the Heceta Head light house. They light it up during the holidays and have a Victorian Christmas theme.
Happy Holidays!!
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