Recovery Day #125!
Last night I took my first 3mg melatonin an hour
before I went to bed at 10pm, got up once at 2am, woke up at 6:30am to El
Colombiano!, did my Kegel exercises and got up at 6:15.
Today is Dia sin IVA.
IVA is like a national sales tax, usually 19%, added to the cost of most
products. (At least here the price you see for a product already has the tax added.)
Today, that tax is waved for many products so we expect stores will be busier
than usual. There will be 2 more Dias sin IVA this year on November 19th and
December 3rd.
My prostate surgery was
exactly 4 months ago. So where am I today? I guess my insides are still healing
as I feel some discomfort when I walk too long or too fast. Everything
downstairs looks normal but I’m still dealing with urinary incontinence. I
would say I’m in the leaking stage, when I cough, sneeze, or stand up or
sometimes just walking. I’m only changing my AD before going to bed and after
my morning shower and the old ones don’t appear to be very damp. So why do I
change them? You change your underwear everyday (I hope) and they aren’t wet.
It’s more of the clean, comfortable feeling I’m after.
I was up 3 pawns to 2
in a rook endgame with Angry_Horse but we agreed to a draw after 49 moves
lowering my rating 2 points to 1566.
I usually have 4 games
going on Chess.com at the same time but currently one of my opponents,
theGreekLad, has been on vacation for weeks (3 weeks remaining), the Iranian
guy, rudarwolfs, keeps on playing although I’m up 2 knights and 3 pawns (all
about to Queen) and he has 1 pawn. He should have resigned long ago so I’m
going to stretch this out and Queen all my pawns before I corral and checkmate
him.
We have 2 and 3 o’clock
appointments to have our teeth cleaned by Dr. Rendon in El Tesoro. We were
getting ready to leave to have lunch there first when his receptionist called.
I handed Teresa the phone and she told me he can take us right away. We arrived
by 11am by taxi. Teresa went first and I told her I’d be back in an hour.
I went down to the mall
area to a store called Trendy where I bought Teresa a beautiful pair of
earrings she admired last time we were there.
Back upstairs it was
soon my turn for a teeth cleaning. I learned that Dr. Rendon took his family to
Chicago last July. After a few days at a hotel downtown he mentioned they
stayed a few days with a friend in Glenview. Hey, I lived in Glenview from
about 1981 to 1995. I told him some stories about the now closed Glenview
Naval Air Station which is now The Glen. I told him next time he
plans on visiting Chicago to let me know as I have some out of the way places
he could visit. No problem with our teeth after cleaning, I paid 360mil and we
left.
We had lunch in J&C
Delicias. I had my usual Cesar salad and she had salmon with vegetables.
The total came to 73,480 including tip.
Teresa went shopping
for a dress for Daniela’s wedding. She tried quite a few stores and came up
with nothing she liked that wasn’t outrageously expensive.
On the hunt she stopped
at a jewelry store and looked at earrings. Uh-oh. I was thinking, “it’s okay to
look but if she finds something I’m going to have to give her the earrings now.”
Then I thought she would probably want to wear them to the wedding so maybe I should
give them to her today. When she came out of a dress shop I gave them to her.
She was surprised but she thought I bought them at the jewelry store she had
just come out of. I told her it was from another store. She said there was
another pair she liked more. We went to the Trendy store and she looked
and talked to a sales associate but either she couldn’t find them or she
changed her mind.
We continued her hunt
for a dress. At one point she said she wanted to call Vicky for advice. (I was
thinking she meant Vicky, Daniela’s mother.) Problem was she forgot her
cellphone and I don’t have Vicky’s phone number in mine.
We were looking for
another dress shop when she spied Vicky, her friend with the dog, that lives
nearby. She took us directly to a dress shop named Manitu. Teresa tried
on a few and found a couple that looked beautiful on her. She finally chose one,
I paid for it and was surprised how inexpensive it was. Not sure if I only made
a deposit, paid half, or it was a rental. No idea. I guess I’ll find out when
we pick it up after alterations are made.
We decided to go for
coffee but on the way they stopped in an inexpensive jewelry store where Teresa
bought hoop style earrings and a purse.
I made a quick trip to Banco
Caja Social where I withdrew 300mil because I was soon going to have a cash
flow problem.
On our way to Santa Leña
Vicky’s dog suddenly stopped and peed on the floor. Vicky waited until he was
done then kept on walking with me still standing there. She told me not to
worry because the cleaning people will come clean it up. I told her I was
concerned about people stepping in it. As we walked away I turned back in time
to see a 2-year-old girl stomp in it like it was a puddle. Point made but Vicky
claimed it was the fault of the father for not keeping an eye on his daughter. ☹
Outside Santa Leña
Teresa saw Chef Burger and said she wanted a chicken burger. I had a
hamburger, no cheese, no bacon with a Coke and she had a chicken burger. She
said it was much better than McDonald’s so maybe we’ll be switching from iFood
(McDonald’s) to Rappi (Chef Burger).
They went to look in a
few more stores and I went to Santa Leña where I had a café con leche and
waited for them to return.
After at least half an
hour I paid and left to use the restroom and I ran into them returning. We said
goodbye to Vicky and I asked Teresa if she would rather take a taxi or use
Didi. She agreed to Didi and we went down to Torre Medica/Carulla where we would
be easier to find. My app said a car would pick us up in 7 minutes. Half an
hour later it arrived and I figured out my app was telling me he came from
Mayorca mall to pick us up. For some reason he went down Calle 10A to Ave. Poblado
before heading south. Maybe he knew something I didn’t because traffic wasn’t
too bad.
When I put on the TENS
3000 connector I felt the current until I lift my foot and then it seemed to
disappear.
I watched the end of
the Packers vs Cardinals game which ended rather surprisingly.
The
New York Times’ 7-day average of new daily infections and deaths has the US
with 70,824 ð 71,962 ð 72,569 new cases and 1,400 ð 1,395 ð 1,380 new deaths.
Per
Medellin Guru, as of yesterday, Colombia has a total of 1,428 ð 1,680 ð 1,750 new cases with 34 ð 26 ð 35 new deaths. Medellin has 269 ð 225 ð 213 new cases from October 27th to 28th. Envigado has 11 ð 5 ð 13 new cases from October 27th to 28th.
T-shirt of
the day
Dibs.
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