Back in
January, my wife scheduled us for a family vacation. That vacation started on Friday 6/12 and
6/23. That means it started 2 days after
my release from the hospital :O.
While in the
hospital and every time I spoke with my doctor, I mentioned these plans to get
his assessment of whether he thought it was OK for me to do and whether I
should observe any special restrictions regarding my abscess, Crohn’s, or
anything else.
The doctor
cleared all vacation activities, even going to the beach and swimming in the
ocean (despite having aspirated the abscess).
He felt that everything would be healed up by the time I got to Florida
(where my vacation was).
On Friday we
spent 16 hours preparing for, packing, and driving. My wife drove most of the way but I did a
total of about 4 hours of driving. I
ended up in moderate pain most of the day and took ½ pain pill to help with
that about half way through the day which disqualified me from doing any
driving after that. I wasn’t able to eat
much dinner because I experienced the full & bloated feeling that sometimes
occurs with this flare.
We spent
about 8 hours traveling on Saturday. I
drove about 2 hours and my wife drove the rest.
Once again, I had moderate pain through the day and ended up taking a ½ pain
pill to make myself more comfortable. By
the time we got to the vacation house, we were all pretty tired. Despite that, it wasn’t hard to convince the
kids to unpack and prepare the place for our week’s stay. Some of the kids spent time walking around
that night but I took it easy.
The next
day, I spent about 20 minutes riding a bike and an hour at the beach. I spent most of the rest of the day lounging
in the rental house just relaxing.
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