Stressful Day
Thursday eve I was merrily cooking BLTs when I created an overload...electrical. AC, microwave and toaster just don't work together. So a breaker popped and handy Jim reset that. Later in the evening he noticed that the house battery charger wasn't working so he turned that on...popped a breaker. Ooops! this is not good. The way we were set up the power to the outlets was coming from the battery. Mind you this is all happening at midnight...bedtime...brains are zapped.
We turned off ALL electrical stuff to reduce load on the batteries. Went to bed, couldn't sleep wondering what the hell is wrong and how much time and money will this take. Morning coffee session we were wrestling with the problem and I said," why are we having a power issue when we are plugged into the power pole on the site?" Well duh?! Light bulbs go off and Jim remembers that we can bypass the batteries and use power direct from the power pole. Most of you are probably set up that way. We had our system set to assure that if the park power failed the batteries would seamlessly kick in and maintain computer power with no interruption.
Ok...so my "dumb" question led us to resolve the issue temporarily but we still needed a fix. We also had a very important doctor appointment to get the results of Jim's CAT scan. Jim called a few mobile RV guys and found one who could come over late Friday. In the meantime we headed off to the doctor.
The good medical news is that Jim's lung tumors continue to decrease in size. The not so good is that they are not yet small enough to have the RFA procedure. We were very impressed that Doctor VDM had consulted with the RFA radiologist. Together they remeasured the tumors and agreed that another two rounds of chemo should do the trick. So six more weeks of chemo for Jim. The doctor is very optimistic that this will work and then the RFA treatment will get rid of the tumors. Then Jim can say he HAD cancer.
Jim is of course disappointed at more chemo, but encouraged that there is a good end to this :)
The RV repair guy arrived finally at 5:30 and was done by 6:00...voila. The problem? A loose power connection on the breaker panel! Geez! Jim could have fixed that if he'd thought to look there....never occured to us. We should have remembered..."always check your connections"....be it the washing machine, the computer or the power panel.
After this stressful day we relaxed with a glass of wine, chicken and mashed potatoes and a ballgame!