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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 2412235, member: 16948&quot;]After the show on Wednesday, we went to Chicago Prime Steakhouse, we had been there before and knew they had great food and wine!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5383_zpsa7cpkkqw.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5391_zps1ilgiasi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5385_zpsa8etcog4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5386_zps1lbj42fd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Me, Rick and Matt</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5381_zpsxpucs26r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5387_zpsq9k2hf6j.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Had some more much appreciated good wine!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5388_zpspxquo99n.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great prime rib (end cut, mmmmmm)!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5390_zpsrnzd0sw1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday morning I had an early WIN board meeting, followed by our general meeting.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5394_zpspphfjpmd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s our wonderful, hard-working WiN board!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5428_zpsllazrci3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>David Hunsicker gave an excellent presentation on old banks made by banks.&nbsp; I learned that banks would give out their custom banks to customers without the key.&nbsp; So the customer would have to bring the bank back to the bank, which they would open and place the funds in the customer’s account.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5429_zps2w04aeea.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5396_zps0ic1yi0b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5430_zpscfx8tu6r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I then settled in at my table, thinking that all was ok with my hubby, trying to focus on coins.&nbsp; Shortly after I got to the show, my good friend David Lange stopped by my table to show me his great new book on coin collecting albums that he’d been working on for quite some time and was just published!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5399_zpsoe83qwar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Got an adorable photo of David and Taryn at the PCGS table</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5401_zpsislqpmmu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Back to Lou’s saga.&nbsp; Thursday afternoon, I heard from my son that Lou had arrived back in the states and was at the hospital in Irvine getting checked out.&nbsp; I breathed a sigh of relief that he was home.&nbsp; So I headed out to dinner with Rick, Matt, and another copper friend, Greg Hannigan.&nbsp; We loved Chicago Prime Steakhouse so much, so we decided to try Chicago Prime Italian!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5411_zpspomraydr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5407_zps342tpskt.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, I went from relief to shock in a span of minutes!&nbsp; Troy called me just before we left for dinner and told me the doctors did an MRI and a CT scan to make sure there was no bleeding on his brain from the concussion, which there was not, and to check for anything broken.&nbsp; Well, they found a fracture on C-2 of Lou’s neck (the one that allows the neck to turn and swivel).&nbsp; Troy told me they were rushing him by ambulance to a spinal specialist at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach for possible immediate surgery.&nbsp; They also found that he had broken 3 of his fingers.&nbsp; How could the doctors in Mexico miss this critical injury and release Lou from the hospital in such an unstable condition??? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once we arrived at the restaurant, I anxiously waited for further word (the hospital in Newport Beach is only about 10 miles from the Irvine hospital).&nbsp; Troy called and told me they were going to do another MRI and CT scan, and would wait until the morning before deciding on whether to do surgery.&nbsp; I was at least relieved for that.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That night I again looked into getting a flight back to OC on Friday (no flights are allowed to land in OC after 10pm on week days so I couldn’t fly out that night unless I wanted to go to LAX, rent a car and drive back to OC).&nbsp; It would cost over $1,000 to change my flight, plus the only one that wasn’t full wouldn’t get there until Friday night.&nbsp; So again, I had to make a decision and decided to wait to see what the doctors said in the morning.&nbsp; Again, in hindsight, I wished I would have just flown back home on Wednesday….</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Shortly after I arrived at the show on Friday, my son called and told me the doctors wanted to do one more MRI with contrast (which is a die) to get more detail of the fractured area and he would let me know the results, but that Lou was stable and doing ok.&nbsp; I got to speak with Lou and he was once again in his “I’ll be fine, don’t worry” mode.&nbsp; Lou is a really tough guy with high tolerance for pain, but I knew he was a little fearful of what was ahead.&nbsp; This made me tearful, and even though I had customers at my booth, I had to turn away to compose myself.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Within an hour, Troy called with an update.&nbsp; The new MRI scan had shown 5 more compression fractures on the thoracic and lumbar parts of his spine, plus a fractured rib – none of these needed surgery and would just require time and pain meds to heal, but geese, every update seemed worse than the one before.&nbsp; Again, more tears and wanting to go home.&nbsp; Here are photos of the doctor’s notes showing all the various fractures.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5423_zpsfbzhziri.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2016%2004%20Central%20States/IMG_5422_zpsg9cu3unl.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Troy then told me the doctors were considering fitting Lou with a halo device for his C-2 fracture instead of surgery because the fracture was not too bad, was still in alignment, and was a good candidate for healing without surgery if kept stable.&nbsp; He said that there was no longer an urgency, so the doctors were going to wait and talk with me when I got back to OC on Saturday.&nbsp; The surgery would permanently and severely limit Lou’s neck movement, but wearing the halo device for a couple months would be no picnic either.&nbsp; Sigh, cry, compose, carry on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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