I slept well waking up at 6:30 and getting up at 7:30. It was squealing brakes that initially woke
me up.
Teresa and I left the apt at 9am and walked a block to a
slightly busier street where we quickly caught a taxi. We arrived at the Nueva eps by the stadium at
9:35 for my 10am appointment. The
waiting room was nearly full with just a few chairs remaining. After standing in line for a couple minutes I
paid my 2,900 ($1) co pay and we took a seat.
We were called to consultation room #4 at 10:20.
The doctor, an Urologist, spoke very good English. I gave him the results of my most recent blood
test and a copy of my past Wellness and blood tests. I questioned him about a possible lack of
Vitamin B12 but he said it wasn’t a concern.
I showed him the drugs I’m currently taking. He said another name for Tamsulosin is Flomax.
I asked him about taking Excedrin 1 or 2 times a week because it contains aspirin and he said he
wasn’t concerned, as long as I’m not taking a lot of Advil because it can cause
kidney problems. He said he would give
me a prescription for a better brand of Tamsulosin
and I understood it would be free from Nueva eps. It would be a 6 month supply and I should
come back in a year for another blood test and consultation. He gave me a quick rectal exam and said my
prostate seems fine (although enlarged).
We left about 11am and walked over to El Viejo y El Pancake for lunch.
(They are usually closed on Wednesdays & Thursdays but they had a
notice on their Facebook page that they will be closed on weekends so for the
time being they will be open Monday thru Friday.) David’s wife Alexi was there today (her first
day back) and Teresa learned she’s equal parts American (father’s side) and
Colombian (mother’s side) so she has dual citizenship. As her spouse, David can stay in Colombia
On the English side of their menu I noticed it said “how
about some pancakes today?”. I was
curious what “how about?” would translate to Spanish because I often start my
questions to Teresa in English with “how about”. Like, “how about we do this?” It turns out it translates to “que tal?”.
I paid 20,000 pesos for our lunch and we walked over to the
chess league office by the stadium. I
saw that they started an under 1900 tournament last night. I guess I’ll be waiting for the next one.
We walked over to El Diamante CC (mall). I dropped off my chess clock at Techno Watch (local 1434) for a
cleaning. He said it would take about an
hour and the charge would be 30,000 pesos (about $10.50). Teresa stopped at a small store while I made
a trip to the restroom. Skip the rest of
this paragraph if you don’t want TMI about toilet behavior. Wouldn’t you know
it my stall didn’t have toilet paper or a toilet seat. (But it did have a hook that I used for my
tech bag and my fanny pack.) Luckily I was
able to quickly do my thing and I had some TP with me. After using what I had, I felt I still needed
more. I pulled my pants up and took a
quick look outside where I saw a TP dispenser.
I grabbed a yard or so of it and quickly hustled back into the stall.
Soon I was back with Teresa.
She found some skin cream she wanted for 22mil. I gave the woman a 50mil bill and she gave me
my change.
We sat around for a little while and then headed back to the
clock repair store. We waited about 15
more minutes for him to finish. I
checked that both sides worked and that the flag would fall on both sides.
We walked outside and at the main road quickly caught a taxi
back to the apt.
I walked to Exito where I picked up 2 bags of milk, 3
tomatoes, a package of hamburgers and a package of buns and a package of
microwave popcorn. Walking past the
cashiers I saw the same sign that said “we’re sorry but their aren’t any bags
today”. I observed the couple of
customers ahead of me and sure enough they didn’t bag their groceries. Since I couldn’t carry everything loose I
just purchased the hamburgers, buns and tomatoes. I questioned the cashier about this and she
said it’s every Thursday. I’ll have to
remember that.
Back at the apt I dropped off my few things and then made a
quick trip to the corner store for 2 bags of milk.
I decided to put my blood test results in my storage
box. I was surprised to see there was a
hanging folder missing exactly where a file marked MEDICAL would go. I asked Teresa about that and she said she
didn’t have it. She went in the back
bedroom and came back with a couple plastic bags and proceeded to go through
them and show me that they were all hers.
I took out a couple hard plastic storage envelopes I had and showed her
a colored folder with a label that said DENTAL and another that said
MISCELLANEOUS and asked here if she knew where the other one is labeled
MEDICAL. She went in the back again and
this time came out with a plastic envelope that contained all my medical
records including the missing blue MEDICAL folder. I went through everything quickly throwing
away things that I knew I wouldn’t need.
A few minutes later she started to go through my garbage pile and ask me
about things. I told her I already went
through everything once and I wasn’t going to do it again so just throw it
away. Another day I’ll go through them
again more slowly and put them in chronological order and throw out the medical
orders probably keeping just the results.
We finished watching Copycat
(6.6) on Netflix and then at 6pm MT came over.
I understand she gets bored alone in her apartment.
I started watching The
Thin Red Line (7.6) until Teresa wanted to watch another movie so I switched
to The Sentinel (6.1). MT left at 8pm. We stopped when Laura came home at 9:30 so
Teresa could make her something to eat and I continued with my movie.
Tomorrow we leave early (supposedly) for Nueva eps to drop
off my prescription and perhaps pick up my medicine.
T-shirt of the day: Best place in the world.
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