jarvis Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 My mom and I arrived in San Diego last night at 12:30am. Got to the OCC at 7:30am There were 9 surgeries today...mom was #8 I, of course, was last.....long day! No pain, only gas discomfort. This staff is amazing, they all have a very good sense of humor....we had lots of laughs while waiting our turn. We are looking forward to a sleeping pill at 9pm, for a good nights sleep. The hotel Lucerna is very nice, and OCC is so clean! Anne, Make sure you pack warm clothes.....it was down to 59 today. Best to all of you! Cindy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnm75 Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 My mom and I arrived in San Diego last night at 12:30am. Got to the OCC at 7:30amThere were 9 surgeries today...mom was #8 I, of course, was last.....long day! No pain, only gas discomfort. This staff is amazing, they all have a very good sense of humor....we had lots of laughs while waiting our turn. We are looking forward to a sleeping pill at 9pm, for a good nights sleep. The hotel Lucerna is very nice, and OCC is so clean! Anne, Make sure you pack warm clothes.....it was down to 59 today. Best to all of you! Cindy Cindy, Welcome to bandland! Isn't the OCC staff amazing? I'm glad that all went well. Kristy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mona-camille Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Congratulations and welcome to bandland!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrty835 Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Welcome to you and youre mom, Congrats. Glad you have youre mom to take this journey with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BandDiva Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 My mom and I arrived in San Diego last night at 12:30am. Got to the OCC at 7:30amThere were 9 surgeries today...mom was #8 I, of course, was last.....long day! No pain, only gas discomfort. This staff is amazing, they all have a very good sense of humor....we had lots of laughs while waiting our turn. We are looking forward to a sleeping pill at 9pm, for a good nights sleep. The hotel Lucerna is very nice, and OCC is so clean! Anne, Make sure you pack warm clothes.....it was down to 59 today. Best to all of you! Cindy WOOHOO! You did it! By the way, I was last too! lol I hated that wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlag Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Congratulations! It is so awesome that you and your mom did this together. Is so nice to have support and to know the person is going thru the same thing as you. Best of luck to both of you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValleyGirl Posted December 13, 2008 Report Share Posted December 13, 2008 Way to go!!! By the way, you have the prettiest smile, it just lights up this place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhawkchick75 Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Congrats! Now the fun really begins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losew8 Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Welcome to the BandClub! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopper Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Congrats!!! Thank you for the weather update!!! My wife and I are going down on Weds for surgery on Thursday and I had been wondering how cold it had been. Did you guys make it to Revoulution Ave for some shopping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firecracker Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 Congrats!!! Thank you for the weather update!!! My wife and I are going down on Weds for surgery on Thursday and I had been wondering how cold it had been. Did you guys make it to Revoulution Ave for some shopping? My husband and I did not enjoy Revoulution Ave at all, they were extremely pushy and nothing I wanted to spend my money on, just junk. A couple of the stores I would have liked to go into, the guys were so overwhelmingly pushy that it wasn't worth my time, we grabbed a cab and went back to the hotel. We also went to the mall just down the street, it is an outside mall with a movie theatre and regular shops like a Sears and it has a grocery store also. I had heard there was somewhere else to shop that was good also, but I can't remember the name, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyodieter Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 My husband and I did not enjoy Revoulution Ave at all, they were extremely pushy and nothing I wanted to spend my money on, just junk. A couple of the stores I would have liked to go into, the guys were so overwhelmingly pushy that it wasn't worth my time, we grabbed a cab and went back to the hotel. We also went to the mall just down the street, it is an outside mall with a movie theatre and regular shops like a Sears and it has a grocery store also. I had heard there was somewhere else to shop that was good also, but I can't remember the name, sorry. My son and I felt the same way. I felt so uncomfortable, One guy waited for us outside a restaurant thinking my son should buy some brass knuckles! He chased us down the street. We couldn't leave soon enough. I guess It's not everyones cup of tea. Glad I went just to see, but I will never go back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopper Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 That reminds me of a time I was in Algadones (I think) across the border from Yuma anyways and there was these 2 young gentlemen outside of a pharmacy trying to solicit my Dad to go inside. They were telling him that they had Viagra and it was better than Wal mart. Ha Ha... cracked me up. You just gotta ignore them and keep walking kinda like the stripper card pushers in Vegas. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CindyLou Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 I was approached buy a supposed pharmacists and asked if I would like to buy Vicoden or Morphine....I was a little tempted with all the gas pain...hahaha.... We got a cab and left right then. On a normal day I probably could have dealt with it but I was a little cranky the day after surgery and not up to the harassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsParris Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 One guy insisted I buy some jewelry from him. When I said NO, he told me I needed to get out of Tijuana and go to K-Mart. I decided then that I had had enough of Revolution Ave. NEVER AGAIN! The open air mall is fairly nice, a lot of shoe stores. I bought 9 pairs. We had them in our carry-on and they couldn't scan it properly, so security searched my bag. Kimberly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhawkchick75 Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that really didn't enjoy Revolution Ave!! I was sore and crabby and they were sooo pushy! This guy kept trying to get me to buy sunglasses and I finally just had to look at him and tell him all his sunglasses were ugly! I felt bad, but he finally left me alone. We didn't stay long and ended up headed back to the hotel. The other mall sounds like it might have been OK, but it sounds like I was in more pain than most people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted December 14, 2008 Report Share Posted December 14, 2008 I think the reason why we did so well there is because we had someone who spoke spanish with us. It was easy to tell someone off. We had a good time, but we didnt stay a real long time. I guess the whole thing was interesting to me. I had never seen anything like that before. As you can tell I am not well traveled. I just laughed at the pushy ones. We only went into the stores where there was no one out there grabing at us. This one guy tried to get me to buy his purses and I laughed at him cause he tried to tell me it was a REAL Coach, like I wouldnt know. HA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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