Well I'm back from what was going to be a great time in Cancun. It wasn't! We arrived at the Hilton at around 9:30 on Saturday night, got unpacked, went out to dinner, went dancing and had a few drinks then hit the hay. The next moning, after breakfast Linda and her pal Mary Ellen went to the the gym for a work out and my son and I headed out for some SCUBA diving. Just as we were getting into the pool for a check out I got notice to get to the gym right away as Linda had met with an accident.
To make a very long story short, a machine that Linda was using collapsed severing the little finger on her right hand. There ensued a nightmare that gave us a very up close and personal look at the emergency medical facilities available in a 3rd world country. They are not good. She had to be air evac'ed to Miami for emergency surgery which meant we had to hire the med evac Lear Jet to the tune of $15k to get us to Miami.
Again, to keep it short, the finger could not be re-attached, but she still needed surgery which was done at Mercy Hospital in Miami at 2 in the morning. We spent two days there and then flew home on Tuesday. She is going to be fine and is joking that her manicures will now be cheaper! I spent the week with her "doing for her" (sure are a lot of things that a woman does with her hands) and came home this morning.
I won't take up bandwidth with this anymore, but if anybody is going "down" there, buy the extra insurance for this kind of thing. The Medicos down there did thier best, but Mexico, even in the big resort areas, is still in the 1950's.
Brent, so sorry to read about your motor. Any chance you can get it going by June?
It seems like everything is progressing ok for the Idaho run, I don't see any fires that need to be dealt with. Anyway, I'm back and if you have questions, give me a heads up.
Bish
