Juneau

All our guests are gone and all we have left is dirty laundry and sweet memories. All of you that joined us are missed. Well, we were hoping to get out of Juneau by tomorrow. Life gets complicated. This morning Fred was on the upper deck working on the davit. It slipped and sliced into Fred's left middle finger. He wasn't doing well, so I went out on knocked on boat hulls (boats don’t have doorbells) nearby to see if there was a man who could help us. Janet on “Artic Explorer” (49' DeFever) grabbed her car keys and away we went to Bartlett Hospital in Juneau. (I made her some brownies) Fred was taken in very quickly. The MD numbed Fred's finger and explored. They took him off to x-ray on the gurney. He pretty much separated the finger tissue from his nail bed and broke off part of the bone at the tip. A PA (physician's assistant) came in to sew him up. I lost count of the stitches after 20. They put on a huge, padded dressing and gave him a prescription for an antibiotic and pain med. We took a cab home and Fred took a pain pill & tried to relax. Now all he has to do is keep the hand elevated and the dressing dry. Sure glad this happened in the USA instead of Canada. I don't thing our insurance would have covered it there.