Coz, the trip home.....
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Wildcard:
Which one was it??? Now you've got me curious!
So I take it you forgot my Polo Shirt. 
Glad you had fun diving, too bad about the puke on the plane.
And the broken bottle of Tequila is just not right at all. :biggrinba:
Glad you had fun diving, too bad about the puke on the plane.
And the broken bottle of Tequila is just not right at all. :biggrinba:
WaterWayne
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First, Wildcard, well-done on a messy yet essential job. It sounds as if the victim was suffering from more than airsickness? Did you ever hear the final diagnosis?
Second, although this is straying, $75 is not completely unreasonable for fine tequila. I'm a modest but diligent and veteran student of tequila. For instance, the best "production" tequila (available throughout most of Mexico) is generally acknowledged to be Jose Cuervo's "Reserva de la Familia". (Bear in mind that Jose Cuervo makes everything from hell to paradise.) The cheapest I've found Reserva anywhere in Mexico has been about USD90.00, more frequently USD100+, and I've constantly shopped on my many visits there. (Here in Texas it can be found for about the same price, IF available at all.)
If you've been buying Jose Cuervo Gold (shudder) for about USD25, then you're scoffing, why so much?! Here's why: to start, the Gold swill is not 100% agave cactus, which true tequilas will proudly proclaim somewhere on their labels. Next, 100% agave Reserva is an extra-aged anejo tequila, meaning aged more than the anejo-standard 12 months. (Anejo itself means "aged".) It's very much like cognac in consistency and complexity of taste; not to be mixed with anything but good company! Reserva comes in a numbered bottle, boxed in an artist-designed, collectible wooden box; the boxes themselves are created by a different Mexican artist each year.
There are also rare, super-premium, boutique tequilas that cost USD300. or more, that are not just gringo scams. One such vintage is Gran Centenario Gran Reserva (GCGR), bottled in an exquisite, hand-blown bottle with pewter adornments. (In Hermosillo, June 2005, I found a bottle of the GCR for USD280. That's all I did, was find it and admire it...) I've tried GCGR, and it is indeed better than Reserva. Not three times better, but better.
OTOH, you should be able to get some of the near-best for $50-$75, anywhere in Mexico.
And a busted tequila bottle still represents a heartbreak, perhaps lessened by Wildcard's confident satisfaction in assuming responsibility for a fellow human being.
Salud! (health -- doubly meaningful in terms of the poor victim!)
Second, although this is straying, $75 is not completely unreasonable for fine tequila. I'm a modest but diligent and veteran student of tequila. For instance, the best "production" tequila (available throughout most of Mexico) is generally acknowledged to be Jose Cuervo's "Reserva de la Familia". (Bear in mind that Jose Cuervo makes everything from hell to paradise.) The cheapest I've found Reserva anywhere in Mexico has been about USD90.00, more frequently USD100+, and I've constantly shopped on my many visits there. (Here in Texas it can be found for about the same price, IF available at all.)
If you've been buying Jose Cuervo Gold (shudder) for about USD25, then you're scoffing, why so much?! Here's why: to start, the Gold swill is not 100% agave cactus, which true tequilas will proudly proclaim somewhere on their labels. Next, 100% agave Reserva is an extra-aged anejo tequila, meaning aged more than the anejo-standard 12 months. (Anejo itself means "aged".) It's very much like cognac in consistency and complexity of taste; not to be mixed with anything but good company! Reserva comes in a numbered bottle, boxed in an artist-designed, collectible wooden box; the boxes themselves are created by a different Mexican artist each year.
There are also rare, super-premium, boutique tequilas that cost USD300. or more, that are not just gringo scams. One such vintage is Gran Centenario Gran Reserva (GCGR), bottled in an exquisite, hand-blown bottle with pewter adornments. (In Hermosillo, June 2005, I found a bottle of the GCR for USD280. That's all I did, was find it and admire it...) I've tried GCGR, and it is indeed better than Reserva. Not three times better, but better.
OTOH, you should be able to get some of the near-best for $50-$75, anywhere in Mexico.
And a busted tequila bottle still represents a heartbreak, perhaps lessened by Wildcard's confident satisfaction in assuming responsibility for a fellow human being.
Salud! (health -- doubly meaningful in terms of the poor victim!)
This was in a hand blow bottle. Cava Antigua is the brand but I don't rember the exact type. It's in a garbage can at LAX.
I will be in TX again on thursday, I'll look for some of your suggestions.
I will be in TX again on thursday, I'll look for some of your suggestions.
I feel for you . . . I had a similar experience a couple of years ago. My husband and I were on our way to Botswana and had done the leg from Seattle to Amsterdam. We got on the 747 from Amsterdam to Johannesburg, and about four hours into the flight, a guy got pale and sweaty and started puking. The call went out for "any physician on the plane", and four of us responded. We had an ICU doc from the Netherlands, a pediatric ICU doc, me (an ER doc) and an infectious disease specialist. The guy had a pressure of 70/40 and a heart rate of about 35. We started a line and gave him the 250 ccs of fluid which was ALL the plane had, and gave him atropine and epi. Looked pretty clear that he was having an inferior MI.
We then spent hours telling the crew that no, we could not proceed 7 hours to Johannesburg and yes, they WERE going to have to land and get this guy to a hospital. I was amazed he held on. There was nothing more we could do (with no more fluid and no more meds) except keep measuring his vitals and telling each other medical horror stories.
The crew kept trying to find a country that would accept us, that had a runway that would take a loaded 747 still carrying most of its fuel and hotel rooms for 400 passengers. This is not easy to do in north central Africa. Eventually we turned around and went back to Malta, where we offloaded the sick guy but nobody else could leave the plane. At this point, we'd exceeded crew rest regulations, so the only thing we could do was go BACK to Amsterdam, where we arrived just about 12 hours after we left.
Sometimes air travel leaves a little to be desired.
But I didn't lose any tequila on that flight.
We then spent hours telling the crew that no, we could not proceed 7 hours to Johannesburg and yes, they WERE going to have to land and get this guy to a hospital. I was amazed he held on. There was nothing more we could do (with no more fluid and no more meds) except keep measuring his vitals and telling each other medical horror stories.
The crew kept trying to find a country that would accept us, that had a runway that would take a loaded 747 still carrying most of its fuel and hotel rooms for 400 passengers. This is not easy to do in north central Africa. Eventually we turned around and went back to Malta, where we offloaded the sick guy but nobody else could leave the plane. At this point, we'd exceeded crew rest regulations, so the only thing we could do was go BACK to Amsterdam, where we arrived just about 12 hours after we left.
Sometimes air travel leaves a little to be desired.
But I didn't lose any tequila on that flight.
WaterWayne:
Wow! You taught me something
I'm NOT a tequila drinker, but I did get a taste of some reserva about a year ago and it was NOTHING like the tequila I had sworn off 15 years prior I have shopped for tequila for others for gifts, and have just never seen anything that high here...but I stand completely corrected
We had two 500 cc bags but only one ETOH prep in the whole bag. Limited amouant of 02 and only a Auto defib. It seems there is always someone on board that can use the ALS gear, I just wonder why they don't carry it, esp on long flights?
This guy had a Hx of HTN and with 500 ccs on board I could only get his pressure up to 104/66.
The last time I did an inflight I got into it with the flight attendant about what I could do. There was an army cardio doc on board also who told the attendants that he was "only" a doc and this is what paramedics do every day. I fixed a reverse block after a few minutes and after that they had a whole new prospective on EMS providers can do.
I realy miss working full time in EMS, I just make three times as much playing with bombs.
This guy had a Hx of HTN and with 500 ccs on board I could only get his pressure up to 104/66.
The last time I did an inflight I got into it with the flight attendant about what I could do. There was an army cardio doc on board also who told the attendants that he was "only" a doc and this is what paramedics do every day. I fixed a reverse block after a few minutes and after that they had a whole new prospective on EMS providers can do.
I realy miss working full time in EMS, I just make three times as much playing with bombs.
94GTStang
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So where does my Sauza fit in? :14:WaterWayne:
I've yet to have a bad experience with tequilla.... hopefully I will keep it like that.
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