SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 3/3/01
This morning I left at 7am to walk 2 miles to Harborview Medical Center. I
walked right through downtown, city center Seattle and really enjoyed that. It
was a beautiful sunshiny morning and crocuses were blooming and all the trees
had buds on them. There were quite a few people downtown, and they seemed like a
casual lot. I walked past a lg Nike shoe store and there was a line of people a
city block long! I asked "What's up?" and they said a shoe sale! You
gotta be kidding me! It was only 7:15 and the store wasn't even open yet! I was
also amazed at all the Starbuck Coffee Houses that were downtown. There must've
been one on every other block! Starbuck is headquartered in Seattle, but I was
still amazed at the number of shops.
I arrived at the University of Washington Regional Epilepsy Center at Harborview
Medical Center, where a neurosurgeon gave me a tour of the facility. There have
been a few changes since I was last there 20 yrs ago. A couple changes are that
they now use MRI's (they weren't invented yet when I was there,) and they now
put the patient to sleep while they put a saw to his head and cut his skull
open, then they wake the patient back up, perform the surgery, then put the
patient back to sleep while they sew him back up. I was awake the whole time,
even when they cut my head open. He also showed me the very room that I was in
while I was there for 6 wks.
After that I walked back to the motel. Tom arrived with the cart around 1130,
and I showed him around town. My mom & sis and her 2 kids arrived a little
later and we all took the monorail to Pikes Place Market and spent the evening
there.
When Tom brought the cart, he had added a few things that he thought I'd need to
it, and when my mom & sis came they brought a BUNCH of stuff to add to it.
it was a hilarious joke when all the extra stuff was added. I bet that cart
weighed 300 lbs! So we did some serious eliminating & got it down to around
200 lbs (cart & all), still a very heavy load. Of course, only time will
tell how much junk I'll throw in the ditch in order to lighten my load. (Tom
says he's going to drive behind me the first week & pick up all the stuff I
pitch out along the way!)
I had asked my mom & sis to buy me a radio/cd player, and guess what they
got me? A boom box with a TV in it! You gotta be kidding me! This little toy
only takes a mere 10 batteries to run it, and can't y'all just see me watching
the soaps while I push my cart down Hwy 101?! Or pitching my tent up in the
woods and watching the six o'clock news?! Yeah right.
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