On Friday, October 7th I boarded the plane at Ronald Reagan National Airport at around 11:30 AM to make the first of two flights to Fargo North Dakota. It was my best friend Allison Pipers wedding and I wasn’t going to miss it for the world! I’m rather comfortable in my expensive seat, ready to nap away then next two hours and 19 minutes. The turbulence was on the rough side at the beginning of the flight, but nothing I couldn’t handle. We were about 45 minutes from Minneapolis when I saw people running up and down the aisle. I quickly took out my earphones and started looking around franticly. I noticed a large box being quickly brought up to the front of a plane in the hands a flight attendant. I saw that the wording started with a ‘D’ but I couldn’t quit decipher exactly what it said. After about 5 minutes we were informed that a gentleman in first class had a minor heart attack and the pilot was planning on kicking it into high gear to get us on the ground. What I failed to inform earlier is that we sat on the runway for 25 minutes before taking off from Washington, therefore making us 25 minutes behind schedule. The pilot came on the overcome and announced that it was roughly 45 knot winds in the Minneapolis area, therefore prepare for a rough ride.
Great.
We raced to the runway with high speed and the plane was whipping back and forth, it felt like the wings were going to touch down first. We ended up getting there 10 minutes AHEAD of schedule. The paramedic’s met us at the runway to get the gentlemen off the flight as soon as possible.
Okay, flight one is complete.
It’s 3:00 PM and I’m preparing myself to board yet another flight. My head stopped spinning but my stomach hadn’t. As I step on my short 32 minute flight to Fargo, I thought I was going to faint. There were two seats on either side and about 10 rows deep. So I’m going to get back up in the air with these high winds in this? Seriously.
Like I expected, it was a crazy and very nauseous ride to Fargo. The 32 minute ride felt like hours of pure hell.
I land in Fargo at 4:35 PM. My mom picks me up at the airport and headed to get some medicine for my motion sickness. Nothing a few hours at Macy’s couldn’t handle ;)
Allison’s wedding:
BEAUTIFUL!
It was so wonderful to be back in North Dakota to visit friends and family. I had such a blast at Allison and Jacob’s wedding.
Party Bus: Check
Dancing: Check
Driving to Michaels: Check.
I got home last night and my flights were actually very nice. Very little turbulence and went pretty quick. Jacob picked me up at the airport, stopped quickly at the grocery store and then spent the night cheer for the Green Bay Packers. 5-0 Baby.
Monday, 10 October 2011
Thursday, 6 October 2011
The Adventure Continues...
September 29th:
At 11:30 last night Jacob woke up yelling in pain. He had blood running out of his ear and we rushed to the ER. We sat there for 2.5 hours till we could see someone while I held gauze to his ear to help with the bleeding. He saw a nurse for about a minute who checked his blood pressure and temp, then told him to wait for the doctor. After another agonizing hour while he was bleeding from the ear and in excruciating pain, I went up to the front desk in tears begging someone to help us. We finally saw a doctor at 3:30. His eardrum popped that night, which caused him to be bleeding out and in lots of pain. Around 4:15 AM we took off for a 24/7 Pharmacy on the opposite side of town, waited for pain meds and antibiotics and got home around 5:30. He is doing a lot better now, on lots of medication. We have no idea what caused the popped eardrum, but in a couple weeks he should be healed. To add the icing to the cake, I was harassed by some guy in the waiting room and it started a fight with some other patient who was trying to defend me. Oh Geez.
It’s official, I’m writing a book.
October 5th:
I lost my phone last night. Cool.
I was naturally a mess and very upset, but I eventually breathed when Jacob calmed me down. Guess what! There are some good Samaritans in the District!? I had been calling and texting my phone constantly to see if someone would pick up or find it. I lost it around 7:15 PM and I got a call about 8 PM from a guy who found it! He was giving it to his mother who will be at the Canadian Embassy today for me to go and pick it up! Seriously, I sometimes give up on people and then they turn around and surprise you.
At 11:30 last night Jacob woke up yelling in pain. He had blood running out of his ear and we rushed to the ER. We sat there for 2.5 hours till we could see someone while I held gauze to his ear to help with the bleeding. He saw a nurse for about a minute who checked his blood pressure and temp, then told him to wait for the doctor. After another agonizing hour while he was bleeding from the ear and in excruciating pain, I went up to the front desk in tears begging someone to help us. We finally saw a doctor at 3:30. His eardrum popped that night, which caused him to be bleeding out and in lots of pain. Around 4:15 AM we took off for a 24/7 Pharmacy on the opposite side of town, waited for pain meds and antibiotics and got home around 5:30. He is doing a lot better now, on lots of medication. We have no idea what caused the popped eardrum, but in a couple weeks he should be healed. To add the icing to the cake, I was harassed by some guy in the waiting room and it started a fight with some other patient who was trying to defend me. Oh Geez.
It’s official, I’m writing a book.
October 5th:
I lost my phone last night. Cool.
I was naturally a mess and very upset, but I eventually breathed when Jacob calmed me down. Guess what! There are some good Samaritans in the District!? I had been calling and texting my phone constantly to see if someone would pick up or find it. I lost it around 7:15 PM and I got a call about 8 PM from a guy who found it! He was giving it to his mother who will be at the Canadian Embassy today for me to go and pick it up! Seriously, I sometimes give up on people and then they turn around and surprise you.
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