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Impressive. Thank you for your summary ...and quickly !

Walking four or five blocks.

Wierd. So what about the tickets we sued to have to buy to park close to the center of David? Now that was a pain !

...so meanwhile they have meters. Seems like loss of income. hummm

I buy meat that has a lot of tendons, and cook it in a pressure cooker. The tendons dissolve and created a meaty flavored gelatin. I hide my nasty tasting expensive vitamin I grind up with the Glucosamine and the Omega 3 in there. The dog we rescued several months ago who walked on 3 legs ...then limped, no longer limps. Dunno...but she's lookin better. runs like the wind !!

It appears as if this was one heavy allergic response. Topicals that draw seem to be helping...like ceder tincture...some of the Grubers topicals plus warm Magnesium soaks. Today the red swollen area is less and mobility is better. Of course I'm on Cipro antibiotic...so who knows. Amazing how dysfunctional you can become when you lose the use of the forefinger. Yeiks...I'm counting my blessings ! Thorns...enemy of the gardener !!!!!!

Thanks Dottie...

Yah!!!!!! sign us up

Bill just got home from a trip to town. Between Alto Dorado and Ivan's on the west outside lane.......an amazing backwash. The flow into the street was approaching surfable as the water bounced off the curb. Overkill on the ditches you say ?.......they are now looking like the Colorado river in this location. Every side street has a wash of water onto the main road that's mighty impressive. We're waxin up the surfboards...and if there's no lightening ....we'll be out there hangin ten ! ( nah....)

Thanks..both of you. I started a large dose of Ciprofoxicin antibiotic within hours. Also took some Benadryl. I have a good friend who is an orthopedist. He lives in Florida...so he knows all about tropical thorn pokes. He advised starting the Cipro right away...especially in that I have a total hip replacement ( which he did). You always have to be careful about bad systemic infections as those metal hips seem to have an affinity to bacteria in the blood. I can move it today a bit after a soak...but it locks up quick. I'm using Grubers miracle goo as well. Nasty business those palm thorns I tell ya. You really need to put on the armor (..leather gloves, safety glasses) if you're gonna tackle trimming that tree. Man Bonnie...it got red quick...like instantly. Infection usually takes a few days to brew. Makes me think it's a heavy allergic response to whatever is on those thorns. That said...I'm not taking any chances.

Where is Dr Tello located? ...and thanks for all the helps from everyone. Bill and I never owned a dog. Flossy just appeared at our door one night. Bill made the "mistake" of feeding her after he was won over by her charms. Now we are hooked ! She's really sweet.....

You might miss the lakes......

You are my very best friend for life right?

Yesterday I had a palm thorn poke through my garden gloves. Today my finger looks like a Mexican Chorizo...red swollen and can't bend it. Ideas? I can't see much at the puncture site. No apparent fragments. Thorn came out intact as far as I know.

wow..congratulations !

I purchased some ( expensive I might add) vet vitamins to augment our rescue dog's diet. Right now she eats beef, chicken, gizzrads, oatmeal and ground up dry dogfood ( won't touch it otherwise). My concern was she's not getting entire compliment of vits in that diet. OK....I have tried every trick to hide that vit I can think of. She eats the favored treat...then out pops the vitamin. Sooo now I grind up the vits with the dry dog food and scatter in in to the gravy. Her fur looks better. If I overdo it...she won't eat the food. One thing I havn't tried yet on that vit is to smash it into a piece of white bread...then into the meat treat. I'll have to say those vitamins taste horrible. She has floppy ears and I am battling ear infections and I'd like to improve her resistance to infection. Meanwhile I have learned a great deal about ear care from the vet and that should help keep her ears healthy.

Squeeze one Omega 3 gel cap into the food. I have a fussy dog...and she consumes it! Great for the fur coat...stops falling hair

I am saddened by this report.

We've lived here 8 years. As nurse I worked the mission clinic up Volconcito road for several years. Waaay back 8 years ago, all this was a well known fact. This is nothing new. Albendazole was given out like M&Ms...lots of swollen bellies with diarrhea, abdominal pain and vomiting among the Ngobe. Flagyl...yes on occaision. Hey right away, we consumed only boiled water in our home...and bottled when out. Now we have a purification system on our drinking water...but hey, it's not perfect either. Until a purification system is in place for the community water assume water is contaminated. Alison

For most of us here, I do believe we will figure out in time who is talking. For example Suliman the Magficent ...he can't hide no matter how hard he tries.... Uhhh "as if"

I'm posting this for the Handicap Foundation on behalf of Rodny: If you have stuff that hasn't seen the light of day in years...donate it. I have some really nice clothes, hammocks ect (..things I LOVE but either don't fit me or I don't use) I put into a box today and Bill dropped it off at the Foundation almost across the highway from the Roller Skating Rink on the main Boquete Highway. I look at my closet now, and the empty hangers and I feel relieved.....MORE SPACE (smile)...AND more air in my closet ! Alison "Dear Boquete community: Our last scheduled sale of the year will be held on Saturday October the 31 first. For this we are asking for your donations on all house items and clothes in good conditions. You can bring them to the Tuesday Market or to our building in Alto Boquete. We are also looking for books donations for our sale. We are taking donations until October 25th. Thank you. Rodny Moreno.

How do you buy a car, a house or anything else with a large cost? The Toyota dealership would not take cash, our credit card nor a check off our USA bank. We had to hand them a cashier's check off a local bank. That's what we did to buy a car.

I just received a notice that we should as a group of US citizens, voice our concerns to the US embassy here that we are subject to crimes committed against us. My take? My take is...they will say to you " You are no longer in Kansas. We have no authority here. Register with us and we can send you notices and can inform your next of kin if you are in a bad way here. Otherwise we can only sympathize and offer you our empathy that you are living in a country where crimes are committed against you" I say this because we got the same exact speech from an embassy rep who in fact did come to our home up in the mountains of Colombia back n the 70's. Bill and I had bought a home in Colombia. A mountain hut basically. We were in our 20's then. On a border run to renew our visa, I was taken off the street by a policeman and ushered into the station and into a back room and told to strip naked before the cleaning lady. I found it a bit of an un-nerving experience to tell you the truth...(and so did the cleaning lady I might add!) We were let go but wrote to our US congressmen. The result was the visit. The US Embassy guy said in essence: "you are on your own here... If you find yourself in jail, we can bring you a Reader's Digest"....his exact words ! Keep in mind, we were hippys, pot was all new and all so prevalent in Colombia. He was just saying ..."watch your peas and Qs !" OK so now we are ole farts on Soc Sec with a house and cars. I suppose we "look rich"...hey we ain't. That said if the Embassy guy were to visit us today he'd say....."Gringo ole fart, watch your peas and Qs" What stuck was...."you are on your own here" Don't kid yourself. The US government is NOT the Panama Rep govt. You live here and are at the mercy of the system as it exists. Better just hunker down, low profile it...secure yourself and stay safe...as safe as you possibly can. That means staying informed...and protected, and never let down your guard. ....just sayin and only my take on that recent notice.