26:31.078N 78:37.868W O'Keirnan's Law strikes Grand Bahama
Timeandtide
Thu 15 Mar 2018 18:31
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Gill is in charge of blog entries but I wanted to let
you know that we are currently experiencing O'Keirnans Law. For those of
you not familiar I will explain. Murphys law as we all know states that
'everything that can go wrong will', O'Keirnan's law
simply states that 'Murphy was an optimist'. I
will let the blogger in the family tell all.
I don't get it? Anyway, here we are....still. A week
later and we are still anchored in a very non picturesque spot on account of
Richard having another bout of kidney stones! They reared their ugly calcium
heads literally the first night we got here. He'd been feeling rough for a
couple of weeks but put it down to stress and dehydration. As the familiar pain
got worse we decided to stay put and go see a doc here, luckily there are 2 very
good medical centers as well as a hospital here on the island. Couldn't believe
how quickly we got seen and the level of service and care we received even
though we weren't residents. Have to say, never experienced service like that at
home, and everyone here is just so bloody happy! Loving the Bahamian
people.
To cut a long story short, with stones, an infection and
a bonus hernia that we knew nothing about, Richard needs to stay put for now
until all of the above have passed, cleared and popped back in! There is
obviously a big question mark over whether we should continue or just turn back
but we are reserving judgment till we see the urologist tomorrow, we'll make a
decision after we have all the facts. Never rains but pours, eh? We are
both obviously gutted, after spending so long working hard towards getting
the boat in the water, now this. But what can you do? It is what it is and we
should be thankful that we are here and not in some remote part of the Bahamas
where we had no direct access to medical care. This place is really not
where we wanted to be but its the safest place for now. You can only plan for so
much, guaranteed something will jump up and bite you in the arse when you least
expect it.
On the plus side, I have managed to read a whole book in
one week! A first for me, last book I started i was still reading 6 months
later.....never finished it. Our freezer is full, I have beer (Richard is on
boiled water poor sod) the sun is out, I can think of worse places to be while
recovering from kidney stones.
Not very many pictures I can show of Grand Bahama, just
looks like Miami to me on a smaller scale, but here's a picture of richards
x-ray just for fun.
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