Road trip with the Farkel Family

We wanted to get home as soon as possible. Air transportation was expensive, plus I could not travel, being paralyzed on the left side. So the plan was to take ground transportation. On Friday, my wife checked with the social worker and was able to get information on getting us ground transportation back to Milwaukee. Again, this is where my wife came through. When the social workers contacted the transportation company, they said that we could not get out till Monday. My wife said that there was no way that we were staying here the weekend and was persistence in getting a hold of this company even though no one was answering the phone until she got them to commit to leaving Saturday morning. My wife also made the connections with a rehab center in Waukesha and made sure that there would be a bed available and they knew when to expect me. She also took care of the payment for the transportation among other things.
The next morning this large vehicle comes rolling in. It was huge, the front half was like one of those there RV,s and the back half was like an ambulance. So my wife and I were in the back part in a queen size hospital bed with one foot square windows on each side for our viewing pleasure. The front half was like a regular RV that included a full kitchen, table, bathroom, etc., which I never got to see. Now they were three people that came along, one was a nurse, one was the main driver, and one was the fix-it man, who also did some driving. This part is hard to believe, but they did have a GPS system which would seem hard to believe after I describe what happens next. Oh by the way, we find out these people were from Tennessee, very nice people, but very laid back. So how does one get lost going from Cleveland to Milwaukee with an interstate system and a GPS system in the vehicle. After about two hours, I don't think we went more than 30 miles and from what we could tell looking out our tiny windows knew something was wrong. For some reason, they were on these dead-end country roads and there were numerous times when we were stopped for 5 to 10 minutes and then tried to make a U-turn and this happened several times. Not only that, but it was an extremely bumpy ride in the back which the nurse jokingly explained that it was good for therapy because all the jostling would help wake up the nerve's. I think part of problem of being lost was that they were looking for this special truckstop for their lunch. And when they finally found this place, it was an all you can eat buffet and they loaded up for lunch and dinner. My wife went in and tried to get me something that she recognized that I might like. We ate our food and then sat there for another hour and a half while the Farkel family took their time eating their lunch. It was getting close to mid afternoon and we still were not too far from Cleveland. Eventually we started making good time and after a few more wrong turns when we got to Waukesha to the rehab hospital, our journey had ended late Saturday evening. The Farkel family didn't even want to leave when they got to the rehab hospital. So needless to say, this was a very long day. It was kind of funny at the time, but a lot more funny now. It was an experience that I will never forget and also never want to go through again.

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