Saturday, November 6, 2021

Recovery Day #134!

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, woke up at 7am, did my Kegel exercises and got up at 7:30.

Teresa left at 7:30 to go to eps to ask them a question. She returned at 8:30 and made me breakfast. We had a nap then left the apt at 10:15 and walked down to Mercado Madrid. As usual I got a number of plastic bags for vegetables and opened them for her. I was heading toward the back of the store when a chica (young girl) holding a tray of yogurts started her spiel. I understood the gist of it but I told her I don’t understand much Spanish. She switched to English and told me that the yogurt cups are free, IF you buy any package of that brand from the cooler behind her. Teresa then called me to get her more bags.

I paid with my debit card and a man pushed the cart up to our apt. complex. I was surprised and happy to see he was allowed to push it inside the porteria and even more when he went with us up the elevator and handed us things over the threshold of the door.

I’ve been trying to get Teresa to go out to a nice restaurant for weeks or months. (I did get her to Tagliata about a month ago.) I suggested it again a few days ago. I thought it would be another night in watching TV. At 4:30 she informed me she want to go to the nearby Outlet store and check out their jeans then we will go out for a nice dinner. We left at 4:45 and walked the two blocks to the store. She tried on a couple jeans but said they don’t fit. We were back at the apt by 5:30. She asked me what time I wanted to leave for the restaurant. I told her as soon as she’s ready, I don’t want to wait until 8pm to go out.

The “something” she exchanged for in El Tesoro this week doesn’t fit so I’m going to meet her there tomorrow after breakfast and she’s going to exchange it again.

At 6:45 when Teresa was almost ready to leave I called for a Didi card that was supposedly 4 minutes away. When the car was 2 minutes away we went down to the porteria. She sat down and I stepped outside because the app showed the car coming down our street. I motioned for Teresa to come out as the car was arriving. The driver dropped us off at the Provenza location of El Correo at Carrera 33 #7-89. The restaurant was attractive and only 5 of about 25 tables were occupied. We got a table on an upraised platform in back. Teresa ordered a sangria and I a lemonado de coco. She loved her drink. She ordered salmon and I ordered their pepper steak. She loved her salmon and my steak was appropriately spicy but portions were a little chewy. For dessert Teresa ordered a slice of carrot cake to share and I ordered a café con leche, hoping it wouldn’t cause me any sleep problems.

I forgot to take a photo of the restaurant and our meals (still not used to take photos) but I did take one of our shared dessert.

 

The total check, with tip, came to 179,300 pesos ($48) which I put on my debit card. I think I got her to promise to try a new nice restaurant every month.

We quickly caught a Didi car back to the apt. On the way Teresa talked to Esmeralda who recommended a Netflix movie called Mamá. I found it and we started watching it while I did my TENS exercise. I then read a little in my Nook before going to bed at 10:30.

 

The New York Times’ 7-day average of new daily infections and deaths has the US with 71,180 ð 71,617 ð 71,428 new cases and 1,164 ð 1,206 ð 1,215 new deaths.

·        The confirmed worldwide death toll from the virus passed five million, nearly equivalent to the population of Melbourne, Australia, or of the nation of Singapore. Yet the sobering figure is almost certainly an undercount, as many countries remain unable to accurately record the number of Covid-19 deaths.

·        Cases are rising again in Europe, where pandemic restrictions have been relaxed and temperatures have dropped. Vaccination rates in the eastern part of the continent remain low. In the last two weeks of October, more than half the world’s new confirmed cases were reported in Europe, the W.H.O. said.

·        The official daily death toll from the virus in Russia reached a record of nearly 1,200, as a vicious fourth wave raced through a population that is largely unvaccinated and distrustful of government interventions to slow the spread.

·        As India reported its lowest case numbers since February, hundreds of thousands of people traveled across the country to celebrate the annual Diwali festival. India has administered more than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, with 54 percent of the population having received at least one shot and 25 percent fully inoculated.

·        More than half the world’s population has received at least one vaccine dose, although the global figure masks vast disparities in vaccine access between wealthy and poor nations. More than 7.1 billion doses have been administered worldwide. 

 

Per Medellin Guru, as of yesterday, Colombia has a total of 1,908 ð 1,978 ð 1,999 new cases with 37 ð 39 ð 32 new deaths. Medellin has 249 ð 212 ð 242 new cases from November 5^th to 6^th. Envigado has 10 ð 13 ð 14 new cases from November 5^th to 6^th.

 

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