Hey everybody. It's been a week.
A rough week. Yeah, yeah, it's been one of those weeks, and we're gonna tell you all about it.
We are still in Arizona near a little town called Jacob Lake about 40 minutes north of
the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We have this beautiful spot in the Kaibab National Forest.
And you can tell we're bundled up again because it's about 8000 feet in elevation here.
Let's show you the boondocking spot.
We really wanted to bring you a video this week of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. But,
like I said, it's been a bit of a rough week.
Life happens. The travel life is still life in general too so... It's not always vacation. No.
So hopefully we will still be bringing that video to you guys just a little bit
delayed. Take that with a grain of salt though because the best laid plans sometimes go awry.
Yeah. So on to what happened. So a couple of days ago we heard our daughter Klara calling for help
in the bathroom. And Christine and I both ran in there, and she was standing in front of the mirror
just absolutely pale as a ghost. There was just no color in her lips at all. Her breathing was
a little bit irregular. She said she was having trouble seeing. Yeah it was, it was the craziest
thing. I mean I don't think I'll get that vision out of my mind for a while, but like lips so pale.
You just think, I mean truthfully you think is my child dying? Yeah. You know? Like you just,
you don't know. So it was one of those instances where we probably would have dialed 911 had we not
been way out in the forest. So we scooped her up and got everybody loaded up into the truck,
and thankfully before we even got her into the truck she was already recovering and doing much
better. Which was a good sign because we didn't know what kind of underlying thing was going on
that was causing this. It could have been so much worse, but it was a, it was an incident.
It was a temporary thing that passed, but we still knew we needed to get her checked out.
And so we thought the closest hospital was in Kanab. We verified that and called because at that
point she said she was feeling fine again. I mean thank goodness for the resilience of children. And
you know it was kind of like "I'm fine" you know "What's your big deal? Why are you so worked up?"
and um we tried to get in to the clinic in Kanab and they had no immediate openings and they said
you, like we thought, should take her to the ER. Yeah. So we went to the emergency room,
and they checked her out. And the entire thing was basically caused by something called the vasovagal
reflex which is kind of a fun scientific word for a fainting reflex. And that can
be brought on by a whole number of things. It happens a lot more if you're prone to it,
and... This guy is prone to it. I'm prone to it. And so clearly I have passed it on to my daughter.
It's never really been a problem for me other than when I am giving blood or having a blood
draw or something. And then it is basically no matter what I do I know if I'm gonna have
a blood draw I'm probably gonna pass out. It's completely involuntary, and apparently Klara
has the same issue. I can totally relate because I've been through it more than once. And I've just
never seen it in anybody else. And I don't think, have you ever, you've never watched me pass out.
No, I wasn't there. Because it was always in a doctor's office. So we can laugh about it now,
but I'd never seen it happen in somebody else. And in the moment, man it is just super scary.
Right, anybody who has kids or has had anything bad or scary happen knows that when you're in
the moment you just sometimes think the worst. And we're just so thankful that it worked out
to not be anything. Because when I was in the ER with Klara they checked her out so they asked us
all the questions of course they took all our vital signs they did blood work and they did
a stomach cavity x-ray so that they could see is there anything else going on that's causing this.
So at least if it happens again we'll know that really she just needs to lay down, put your feet
up, until all the color returns to her face. Hopefully, hopefully it doesn't happen again,
but if it does I think we'll be a lot more prepared this time. Yeah. So we, you know we
struggled with do, do we talk about this on the channel, do we say what's been going on,
do we just skip a week with video, do we try to push through and just get something out.
And so we thought well this is RV life. This is real life. We're sharing our life and our family
with you. So we thought we'd just share with you guys right because you're on this journey
with us. And then you can see that it's not all, sunshine and daisies? Rainbows and...?
It's not all fun and amazing places all the time. All the time. You have to live real life too. You
do, you do. And you know like let's celebrate together that it turned out well. And big shout
out to Kane County Hospital ER staff because thank you so much for just you know taking good
care of us and helping us through that. Um, and after we get through talking to you guys about
all this, they gave me another good tip about world famous cookies in Jacob Lake.
Apparently the Jacob Lake Inn has some amazing cookies. We heard about that from the nurse in the
ER. He said that that's what they're known for. So we are going to check that out right after this.
But another thing that happened this week... Yeah so if that wasn't enough, a couple of
days later I woke up, uh, I always leave my phone in airplane mode overnight. I turned it
on. I was looking at it. And I get all these text messages popping up from our credit card company,
uh, inquiring about fraudulent charges. So of course after all this we now have thousands
of dollars of fraudulent charges hitting a credit card which in and of itself isn't that big a deal
because of course the credit card company takes care of it, but it's just one other thing. So,
yeah, instead of having a really happy travel video this week we had a couple of bad things
happen, and instead of leaving you on a low note we are going to end with cookies. Let's go.
Jacob Lake Inn. Cookie time.
Success. I could have gotten just one cookie but 15 is way better. So we got one of each
and every kind. They had all of them? They had quite a lot, and they even had a pumpkin one so
you'll be happy. Nice. It is actually flurrying a little bit out here. I walked out the door to
snow. I thought we might find a picnic table over there by the visitor center to eat these, but...
It's cold and windy. Let's go home to our rig. Yeah. Let's do it.
So we are getting through these cookies pretty fast, but we are not gonna eat all of them
tonight. So far our favorites have been: the pumpkin chocolate chip and the lemon raspberry.
And we're probably gonna eat one or two more and then put the rest away for another time. But we
highly highly recommend the cookies here at Jacob Lake Inn. And so many varieties to choose from. I
think anybody would find something they like. So this makes a good end to, an otherwise rough week,
challenging week. So we hope next week is better, and we wish you guys a good week as
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