Mayo News- Day 7

(Ok, I know this has taken forever to get all this up so we're just gonna do the reader's digest version of these last few days. Here goes!)

The weekend was certainly refreshing and the break we all needed to get our energy back up for the next few days of doctors. As far as we knew, all I had left was to get the skin test read and to meet with the infections disease doctor, cardiovascular specialist, and then the final visit with Dr. Picco. We had already been in Jacksonville for a week, had seen 3 different doctors, and still had no idea what Dr. Picco was going to say at the end of it all. Today however was Monday and we were going to just get my skin test read early in the morning and then it was off to the beach for the whole day! At least that was the plan anyway...

We went to the office and all they had to do was look at the three places where they injected stuff under my skin and see if I had reacted or not. Thank God, I am not anergic!! There was one spot that was supposed to react for sure and it definitely had. There was a bump, it was itchy, and it was larger than 10 mm. So, I was done for the day, no more doctors.

We had worn our bathing suits under our clothes and had packed up food for the day. Only problem was that it was pretty overcast. It didn't necessarily look like it was going to rain but it wasn't a beautiful sunny day either. We drove to the beach, which was only about 10 minutes from Mayo, and unpacked and set out to hang out. Unfortunately it kept getting darker and darker until it sprinkled about 4 drops and then... it began to pour!

Mom immediately packed up and ran back to the car but Dad was already in the water so I bagged up my camera bag and headed to the water with him! It was gorgeous. The waves were still really small despite the wind but the way the rain was falling was just like a scene from a movie. You could only see about 15 feet away from you and it was coming down in sheets. I couldn't get enough of it :) There is just something about being in the rain that brings out a joy from deep down and for me it just stirs and stirs until I begin to laugh uncontrollably. I love it.

We stayed in the water for about 20 minutes or so until it started to thunder and we quickly high tailed it outta there. We ran back to the car and then made the torturous drive back as Mom blasted the air conditioning on our wet bodies. Let's just say it were cold!