An Unusual Day

This has been an unusual day. The folks who have the houseboat three slips away from us took off to Aruba for five weeks and invited a sequence of friends to come to Marathon and use the houseboat. The last guest arrived with his girlfriend last Saturday; on Sunday she fell and broke her wrist and we helped them and sent them to the hospital. Not a good start. About 1130 this morning she came over asking for help; while packing to leave he suddenly lost his short term memory. He did not know where he was or why he was here. He had no memory of the trip down here, why his girlfriend had a cast on her arm, etc. We of course feared a stroke and Dixie and I rushed them to the Emergency Room. After five hours of endless tests including a CAT and MRI, while Dixie stayed with them, the doctors could find no reason for it. The "guess" diagnois was "untypical migraine", whatever that is. Anyway he was released from the hospital and is back at the houseboat still with no memory. She can't drive and neither can he. All reservations back home have been cancelled. The hope is that his memory will come back over the next day or so. The owners are coming back on Wednesday; be interesting to see if their guests are still here. A little excitement on the dock.