An Unexected Side Trip in Solomons, MD

Date           May 23, 2012                            
Day            330
Departure   No travel today
Arrival        Spring Cove Marina, Solomons, MD
Miles                  0.0   
Cumulative   5338.8

Spring Cove Marina, Solomons, MD

We rode the marina bicycles to the near-by Calvert Marine Museum.  They have amazing displays of twenty-million-year-old-fossils taken from Calvert Cliffs, just a short distance from where we are staying.  They also had a section on local wooden boat-building, oystering, a marsh exhibit, Bubbles and Squeak the otters and the restored Drum Point Lighthouse.  The lighthouse was moved from it's original location at Drum Point to the Calvert Marine Museum.  It has been completely restored and is open for tours.

Whale Fossil

Drum Point Lighthouse

Bubbles, or is it Squeak?

Arrgghh!!

Look at that, this pirate must have captured the sister of the mermaid we saw last week!!

















Well, we had quite an unexpected side adventure later in the day.  Some time last week, Bob had bumped and scraped his elbow in the engine room of the boat.  It seems it became infected, because his elbow was sore to touch, red, swollen and very warm.  We went to the urgent care clinic located near the marina.  The doctor said he needed to get to the emergency room at the hospital and have it drained as there was an infection in the bursa.  The hospital was 20 miles away, we didn't have a car and the marina was closed!  Lynda called the emergency number posted at the marina, reached the marina owner and he let us take the marina pickup truck.  We spent four hours in the hospital, Bob was given an IV, they did some blood tests, an x-ray, his elbow was poked with a four-inch needle and the doctor removed 5 cc's of fluid from his elbow!

The patient

They gave him an IV of antibiotics, some pain pills, a prescription for more antibiotics to get in the morning and instructions to follow- up with the urgent care facility in Annapolis (where we will be heading tomorrow).  We finally arrived back to the boat at 1:15 am!!  Whew, what a night.
Thankfully, it appears he will make a full recovery and we won't need to delay our travels.