We got up and had breakfast, listened to the net and debated what to do for the day. Finally decided to go to Paradise Village and get a slip for the duration. We had originally planned to go in on Tuesday, but the list of what has to be done is pretty big, so. Here we are!
We started into the list, taking some of the easy stuff first, like putting covers on instruments and canvas on windows. I adjusted the battery charger and solar controller to keep the batteries at less than 100% while we are gone. We have a list of things we have to do before we leave the boat and a list of things for when we get back. Adjusting the battery charger is on both lists now. I walked to the office and checked us in, then took a water taxi to the Port Captains office to get checked in there as well.
Good news: the bathrooms are very nice, Bad news: they are about a mile (round trip) away. The pool and beach are easily accessed and they have a happy hour at 5 pm, beer is 60 pesos and it is two for one, so about $1.50 per beer.
We walked out to the grocery store, it is a pretty short walk and it is a very upscale store, this area of Nuevo Vallarta is very high end, as some one said, it is more like Redondo Beach. Unfortunately, the prices match the look.
I tweaked something in my neck or back and I am having issues with lifting my right arm as it hurts so much. The symptoms are very similar to what happened about 10 years ago. Then I had chest pain on the left side, my left arm felt like someone was hitting it with a baseball bat, and I had lost sensation in my left thumb and first two fingers. At that time I called the advice nurse and was told VERY calmly to take one aspirin and have someone drive me to the emergency room. When I eventually got to the emergency room, they did not let me sit in the waiting room and escorted me to the back, where I was immediately hooked up to an EKG machine and after a bunch of other stuff, they took x-rays of my neck (as I told them from the beginning, I thought it was a pinched nerve in my neck). Finally after several hours in the ER and a pretty big bill, they told me that they thought it was a pinched nerve in my neck. They even showed me on the Xray where it was, then they showed me a nerve map of the human body which showed that the symptoms for a particular nerve in the neck between two of the vertebrae were chest pain on the left side, pain in the upper left arm, and loss of sensation in the thumb and first two fingers. I remember that the nerve between the vertebrae either above or below that spot had similar symptoms, except it was on the right side. Anyway, I took some Advil and went to bed.
