Yesterday was a frightening day. I was staying the morning with the dogs while Nancy went to a Thrift Shop a few towns away. I would then ride a short day when she got back. Nancy called me and spoke in a frightened voice, “I don’t remember the name of our campground, I don’t recognize the shop I just walked out of, I don’t even know how old I am, I think I might have had a stroke”. She said that she was about to drive but didn’t know where to go. I told her the name of the campground, New Wine Park, and told her to put this into Apple Maps and let it guide her back to our site. I googled hospitals and when she showed up we drove to the one in Dyersville. They brought her right in and started the examination. They told her that it didn’t look like a stroke but something called Transient Global Amnesia. They suggested we go to the Iowa University Emergency Hospital in Iowa City for an MRI.
We went back to the campground and picked up the dog to bring with us. We were there for just about twenty four hours before the doctors decided that she did not have a stroke. She was told that it was Transient Global Amnesia. We got back to the campsite around noon and tried to sleep.
Today after helping Nancy pack up the campsite I rode back to the route and then detoured to the Field of Dreams movie site. Nancy met me and we walked around the set.
Leaving the Field of Dreams I chose not to backtrack and get back on route. I rode back roads through farm fields to reconnect. The temperature was cool today, a high of 67°. I really enjoyed the rolling countryside.
I then headed south and east to my sleep spot at the Community Center in Oxford Junction.
