Last night I went to bed at 10:30, quickly fell asleep, got up once during the night, again at 5:30, soon decided I’d better get started with my day and got up at 6am.
I left the apt at 7am and quickly caught a bus outside
Smartfit. There were only 6 others on the bus, I expected at that hour
it might be nearly full. I got off at Calle 7 and and walked up a block to Cedimed.
I showed my blood order to a girl inside and she took it
with my cedula. I took a seat and a few minutes later my name was called. The
young man didn’t speak English but I managed to give him all my personal info, pay
the expected 180,700 pesos and I understand they will email me the results.
I sat down again and my name was called again a few
minutes later. The Phlebotomist (sp?) took me to a back area where she asked me
a series of questions (lol); I didn’t understand a lot but I told her most of the
medications I’m taking. She quickly and painlessly took a single vial of blood and
it took an extra bandaid to get the bleeding under control. I understand
partial results will be ready tomorrow and the remainder next week.
I went outside to their cafe Il Capuccino and
it appeared they didn’t have much more than coffee and pastries. I walked up to
the next café called Boulevard. I was happy to see calentado on their
menu so I ordered it with eggs but they lady said they don’t have calentado so I
left.
I walked across the street and tried the ATM hoping it
would give me all 20s like before the pandemic but no, mostly 50s.
Outside I caught a taxi to Viva Envigado where I had my
usual breakfast at Habia Una Vez. Upstairs I had coffee at Santa Leña.
Trey, from Galviston, Texas soon arrived and we talked a little more. He’s been
here 3 weeks visiting his younger brother Skyler. He was interested in hearing
about cafes that I’ve tried here for breakfast. He soon moved back to his table
as he had a 10am meeting on his computer.
Teresa called me and asked me to pick up tomatoes,
lettuce, and plantain on my way back to the apt. I noticed they were checking cedulas
before entering Exito so I didn’t even try to enter. I had the taxi driver
drop me off at the little grocery store next to Asados Rogelio in La
Buena Mesa. Finding tomatoes was no problem but no ripe plantain and the
lettuce wasn’t her favorite crispa. I bought a ripe avocado from a guy outside
our apt complex for 4mil on my way back.
On the afternoon news I understood Medellin is now
under curfew from 5pm to 5am at least for holy week.
Juan Castro texted me that they have a power problem
so we won’t be able to have a lesson today.
Teresa beat me in parcheesi today 4 games to 1.
Medellin Guru confirmed that Medellin (as well as all
of Antioquia) is under curfew until April 6th due to an increase in
ICU occupancy.
Well, we hit the upper 80s today and it’s been 2-3 days
without rain. Hope I’m not jinxing myself.
The
US has 30,281,704 ð 30,318,445 ð 30,388,472
coronavirus
cases with 548,800+ ð 549,000+ ð 550,000+
deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of this afternoon Colombia has a total of 2,382,730 ð 2,389,779 ð 2,397,731
cases with 62,955 ð 63,079 ð 63,255
deaths. Medellin has 205,366 ð 207,568 ð 208,428
cases, an increase of 1,394 from March 29th to 30th.
Envigado has a total of 18,736 cases, an increase of 172 from March 29th
to 30th. Again, the Medellin total cases didn’t change for some
reason but the change did.
Joke of
the day
To the
person who brought multigrain chips to the party – you could have just said you
didn’t want to come.
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