OUR STAY IN THE ROCKIES

It wasn’t through hell or high water but it felt like it. Instead it was snow and high winds from Utah to Colorado through Wyoming. The new awning over our slide out got a good test with winds up to 50 miles per hour. Fortunately the snow didn’t stick on the highway but it sure made a mess of our windshield. Zoe really had a workout driving.

We settled in Estes Park RV Resort at the foot of the Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a wonderful view of the snow-covered Rockies. A trip into the national park gave us views of elk and mountain sheep but the best view of all was the elk grazing right in our RV park.

We drove the car down to the spinal clinic north of Denver where Lovern had a thorough checkup. The doctor determined that she had a bulging disc that was pinching a nerve. Lovern agreed to have surgery to widen the opening in the disc for the spinal chord. She goes in for surgery on Tuesday, will be in the hospital only one or two days and then be able to be up and around. The procedure is called ‘decompression’. There is no bed rest as they want movement to exercise the muscles right away. The only limitation will be excessive straining or bending over.

We are moving the rig to a park closer to the hospital in the Denver suburb of Englewood.