Last night I slept as well as usual, woke up at 7am and got
up at 7:30.
At 9am I had Teresa call my dentist, Dr. Franco, and he said
he would try to fit me in at 2:30.
I emailed Alex and told him to come over sometime this
morning. (Yeah, I’m skipping gym.)
Alex arrived at 10am, I plugged in my magicJack and he called
Social Security. He had a 40 minute
wait. He was astounded that the
connection was so good with my headphones.
I was surprised he was able to get them at all on a Monday.
While waiting I tried on a pair of jeans he brought me. Because he lost 20 pounds he says he’s down
from size 34 to 32. They fit me and the
length appeared to be near perfect.
He talked to someone at SS and was promised that his
Medicare Part B will be cancelled and he should have a full reimbursement in
his January payment. (This has been a
lingering problem he’s had since he left SF last spring.)
I shut down my magicJack and put in his magicJack and it
worked fine. Maybe his problem is
incompatibility with his Apple laptop.
He said Alba has an HP laptop so maybe it will work fine with hers.
We left the apt about 12:30 and walked down to Deli Hoy for lunch. Today they had oriental chicken with pasta in
addition to the usual unlimited salad and juice for 11,000. We both enjoyed it a lot.
We caught a taxi to Poblado where Alex jumped out at
Monterrey mall and I continued on to El Tesoro.
Waiting at a stoplight I observed a young gringo and gringa couple with
their backpacks that had just crossed the street. They were stopped by a couple policemen and
they had just taken out their passports to be checked. First time I’ve seen that. Traffic was bumper to bumper up Calle 10.
At El Tesoro I stopped in a restroom and brushed my teeth
but I was still at the dentist’s office by 2:25. A young man was being treated and he left
just before 3pm. I took his place in the
chair and over the next hour Dr. Rendon worked on my tooth and fitted it back
into place. (For the record it’s my
molar furthest back on the top left side.)
He noticed a crack in one corner but worked for some time on
strengthening it. We know it will
eventually break but hopefully that won’t be for 3-4 more years. It’s low risk, high reward if it works as it
only cost me 150,000 pesos ($50) to put back in place. I learned the doctor leaves on December 19th
for 10 days on his skiing vacation so I asked him what I should do if I have a
problem while he’s gone. He said to call
him on his cell phone and he’ll give me the information for another dentist.
There was only one other person ahead of me for a taxi at
the stand. I was surprised to see the
chicken again as I was waiting. My
driver spent most of the time talking to someone using his bluetooth.
I got back to the apt with no problem for 11,000 pesos.
Teresa asked me if I paid for the gym this month and how
much. I told her 200,000 pesos. She asked why am I still paying for her
mother when she can’t even go to the gym.
I tried to tell her because I didn’t pay for her a couple months ago
after she had cancelled and I got jumped on for not doing it. So I decided I would continue to pay for her
until told not to. So now I’ve been told
not to.
Teresa and Laura left for the gym at 7:45 with all of my gym
payment receipts.
When Teresa came back she told me that Sondra does not have
cancer of the liver but doctor’s still don’t know why she’s getting stomach
pains.
Laura informed me that she needs her birth certificate
before she can continue at the university (CES) next year. Her birth certificate is in San Andres. So, in my imperfect Spanish I was trying to
find out: if she’s sure that’s really necessary, can it be mailed to her from
San Andres, would it be Laura or Teresa that should go, do they know if it can
be obtained the same day she arrives, can she fly out of the Medellin airport
or does she have to fly out of Rionegro, how much does it cost, etc. She showed me what looked like an airline
booking site but being in Spanish I couldn’t understand (and neither did she)
if what we were looking at were prices one-way or round-trip. To be continued.
I watched the first half of Monday Night Football and then
started my pre-sleep rituals.
T-shirt of the day: Don’t follow me. I’m lost too.
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