Wow, what a day today was! We got away from Dawson City around 1:00 p.m. and headed down the Klondike Highway expecting to possibly make it to Carmacks. Just before Pelly Crossing the dreaded rock chip on the windshield happened in a 2 mile stretch of loose gravel. Shortly after going through Pelly Crossing Jerry’s lower right leg started hurting and from past experience he was certain it was cellulitis coming on. Before too long he was shivering and shaking so hard he couldn’t drive so I drove to Carmacks. We got to Carmacks around 7:30 and found the local nurse’s office, picked up the phone and it summoned the nurse who came to the office and said we needed to get to the hospital in Whitehorse, which was four hours away. By then Jerry’s leg was red as a beet, swollen, and very, very sore, but the chills and shivering had let up so he drove on to Whitehorse. We got to the hospital in Whitehorse a little after midnight and the ER doctor put him on an IV of antibiotics and told him to come back in 12 hours. Finally around 2:00 a.m. we got out of the ER and went back to the RV where we spent the night in the parking lot with security’s blessing. By having to go to Whitehorse caused us to drive 378 miles in one day, our longest drive in one day since we left home.
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