Credit cards:
~just found out this afternoon that my personal Visa card has been compromised. Somehow Amazon ( ??? .ca or .com ) have been charging me $15.00 US per month since May. Looks like it could be for Prime which I do not have. The strange thing is that every month I check my Visa statement with each receipt. Nothing was out of line 🙁
We went to the nursery last Saturday and got extra soil and a few plants. However things have happened since then and they have not yet been planted. Very very soon I hope.
~as I was sorting that out with Visa I discovered that charges were made in Paris yesterday on my Visa card at a travel agent for $1671.38CAD. However much I would like it to be true, but it is not.
~thus far I have been on the phone holding for close to four hours. At the moment I am waiting for the FRAUD department to answer.
Salt water pond full of happy egrets.
OOPS………40 minutes later after finally speaking with a human we were cut off and I am starting all over again 😡 I had given her a for certain phone number to call me back on but she said if we were cut off she could only call back to our home number. Well she never even tried as we have phone messages call forwarded to our emails.
Heading to the Isla for some surfing.
Ciela:
~she appears to be totally back to normal.
Both of the twins love Katia. Ciela especially. Once she saw the massage table being set up Tuesday, she sat at the top of the stairs patiently waiting. I did have to cancel my massage last week because of my root canal. Once the sheet was down she jumped up onto the table from the recliner on the far left. Ciela lay as still as she could be as Katia gave her some attention. when her ” treatment ” was over Ciela jumped up and ran all over like a whirling dervish.
Colin:
~last week he stepped on a rock helping the girls out of a rocky wavy area in the ocean. He had a small cut on the one foot, which between us we thought we had addressed. Then the pain stopped but started again ( rather aggressively ) last Sunday. So Monday morning before we went into Mazatlan, he went to the local Isla doctor. She confirmed that it was inflamed and then gave him three different meds and a lidocaine gel. Of course he is supposed to be off his feet for several days but this is almost impossible. However he really is trying and if he doesn’t pull his full weight down on the affected area then the pain is tolerable.
Carlie was more cautious and would not lie down and relax.
Contessa:
~I saw Dr Paty ( the dentist ) Monday about noonish. As my pain remained at the same high level I completed the antibiotics and the anti inflammatories plus the self prescribed heavy duty pain killers. I was tired of constant pain, it wore me right out. Dr Paty was not happy that I was taking so much medication but I stood my ground. She had received the X-rays from the root canal specialist and she said that it was a perfect root canal and that there was no infection. There was no reason for me to have pain. Other than the fact that a perfectly healthy live root was cut from a live healthy ligament 😥 She said that it can takes weeks to heal. Again I stood my ground saying that I have had several root canals over the years with no further pain. She was concerned about my medication intake. I told her that I could not live without the meds re the pain. I mentioned that the temporary filling had not been levelled and could that be a part of the pain? She did another ( normal looking ) X-ray. The she did the graphite paper test to check high points on that filling. Yes the filling actually was high.
Colin managed to get photos of the sunset. Monday. I just slept and slept. My body was/ still is worn out.
~so she filled it down and almost immediately I felt strange tingling sensations all over my lower right side jaw, even between my upper lip and nose. So strange, this went on for over an hour. I surmise that the high filling was being been pushed up by my lower teeth. Thankfully the pain is decreasing.
~so next Monday I see Dr. Paty again and she will remove the temporary filling and redo it, seal the root canals and and she has decided I need a crown as well. 14,000MXN for the crown ( I already paid $5,500.00 ) so a grand total of $1127.00USD or $1534,00CAD. Good thing Santa sent us a memo last month that he was not going to visit us 😎
CREDIT CARD UPDATE:
~back and forth holding for this company or that company. I got dropped at least twice but it may have been three times. Very long story short, my card has been cancelled and a new Visa card is being mailed to me at home. As luck would have it, a very very wonderful friend has my mail key and will be bringing it to me end of next week. Along with a much needed RV part 😀
Does anyone have a prescription for anti drama medication???
The poor girls missed their beach walk today as we both needed to be here to speak with Visa. This compromised credit card thing happened to me long ago while here on the Isla and the replacement Visa card was delivered to me on the beach. Rather amazing 😛
Sorry to hear about all of your issues. I always thought dental was inexpensive in Mexico. I had 2 crowns done this week here in AZ and only paid $1435.00 US for both. Excellent dentist, far better than Canada. Hope you both feel better soon.
Hope you get feeling better very soon – so you can stop some of the medication. And hope Colin’s foot is healing well. Beautiful sunsets – miss them. Though here in Vegas we do get some pretty sunrises. Relax and enjoy being there – I thought Dr Paty was expensive.
Pretty expensive for that root canal and the high filling was totally unacceptable. Many moons ago I had a painful molar that had a root canal but the pain never quit. Then the tooth was ground down so I wouldn’t bite on it. It was finally extracted and one root fell off. An invisible fracture. The tooth was reimplanted (sans root) and it ankylosed. Had to have a crown lengthening (bone ground down) and then a crown which was attached to a bridge. How’s that for drama😁 Tooth is still good.
Hope that you and Colin are doing fine.
I wanted to wish the two of you a very Merry Christmas.
Love reading your Blog
Hope all is well with you and Colin. Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, Joyous Noel.
Hi, que pasa Contessa that U’r last blog was written on December 6, 2023 ? Deseo que todos estèn saludables, felices y sin problemas.
I figure perhaps U’r internet is not working appropriately .