Hawaii Day 3 and 4

 

Hawaii, Day 3 and 4

Weather: Windy, temps from low 70s to mid 80s, ocean too murky to snorkel

Annals of Medicine  only more frustration (on day 4, THB sent a note to Patient Care for Stanford Health asking for help)

Mostly hanging out at the pool, and trying to teach the twins the art of boogie boarding

 

twins looking roooster and chicks

using wifi, the twins now know how to facetime with each other. on their i-pads. Dad is getting a live performance. And here he thought it was so quiet because one of the twins was resting in their shared bedroom

twins chatting up a much younger kid in the shallow end of the pool

is this the same red-spotted gecko THB saw on Day 3?

twins modeling their new  Blue Ginger outfits: a dress with built-in shorts?

On day 4 after lunch the M's (twins and parental units)  fly off to Honolulu to spend the night and tomorrow morning with friends. 

Sushi at OAS

THB and DB - using Uber - go out for a nice omakase dinner, with sake, $300, followed by walking back from dinner (about a mile) with a stop in the middle for a rich scoop of ice cream. THB, who has been doing little walking, feels like a cripple by the time they get back to Coral Tree.

THB decide to ice down his head instead of his knee

Hawaii, Day 5

Annals of Medicine more frustration (is that possible?). THB sent a note to Patient Care for Stanford Health asking for help). A phone message said to call a number to schedule the MRI. THB called the number and explained to the scheduler that the order had to be for Emeryville Radiology. Okay, then the  20 minute interview starts, the scheduler says here at the times available in Redwood City...hey, that's even further away than Pleasanton. The scheduler says she's just a trainee, nothing she can do. CLICK

THB gives LB the short version and offers to call the docs' number. with the first transfer and 20 minutes of active questioning, it turns out one of the docs put in a plain MRI and the other puts in a MRI with injection. Thew latter is the one only done in Redwood City.

Still no phone call from either doc (let alone an e-mail message on what either had done) and no phone call  from the Stanford Patient Care line. 

The aloha rooster seeing us off to Molokini 

the snorkeling in front of Coral Tree looks a lot better today, the murky line is much close to the shoreline

Back to Hawaii: LB books DB, THB and LB on the 2 hour Molokini 7am snorkel tour. All agree it was awesome: super clear water, big fish, not too many species, and the coral is on its last legs. The boat leaves from a small jetty 2 minutes from Coral Tree. LB's mask may be on its last legs. THB and DB's equipment is trouble free.

Breakfast at Kihei Caffe: French toast for DB (made with sweet Hawaiian bread), bagel and cream cheese with a side of home fries for LB, and scrambled eggs and chorizo with side if beans abd tortillas for THB, one pog, $53.

Rest of day: recovery mode. Some time at poolside (in shade), some time watching the final episode 9 of Dept Q. DB and THB know they got too much sun. Twins and parental units return from their jaunt to Honolulu. 

Book Review: Peace Is A Shy Thing, the Life and Art of Tim O’briend, Alex Vernon (read by Shawn Compton): For those of you near the same age as THB, this book will make you relive the anguish of the American War in Viet Nam all over again, plus give everyone a terrific overview of O’Brien, author of one of the great books that came out of the war, The Things They Carried. THB has some experience with what an author’s life is like: revision,  revision, revision, hard work, dedication, endless anxiety, and if you have success, living with the pressure of how to deliver another gem, over and over.

In the Something Else Category

 An article in the NYT on William Kentridge