Friday, February 18, 2022

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, fell asleep quickly, got up twice during the night, heard a short rainstorm at 5:30am, woke up at 7:30, did my Kegel exercises and got up.

Teresa went to an early exercise class, so I had cereal for breakfast and left the apt at 9am.

At Envios Market I paid 230,400 pesos ($60) to DHL all of Laura’s stuff to her. (I thought the cost was going to be well over $100.) She should receive it in 3-4 (probably business) days. In addition to that Laura owes me 270,497 for her medicine from Todo Drogas and 87,000 for her cream from Medipiel for a total of 587,897 / 3,900 COP/USD = $150.74. She said she would pay me next month when the starts working again.

I had coffee at Los Porteños before returning to the apt.

There seemed to be some confusion as to my EKG results: where they are and who has them. Finally, Dr. Gomez said he would contact Clinica Medellin to retrieve them.

 

Very cool day; only 70 degrees at 1pm with a few raindrops.

I left the apt at 2pm and took a Didi to Viva Envigado. I recycled a pill bottle than saw Daniel with a customer in Celebrity Barber Shop. He initially asked me to return in 20 minutes. I told him I could come a little later if need be. I said to return in an hour at 3:30. I had just settled down with a latte in Todo Fresa when he texted me asking me to return in 5 minutes. Sigh! I paid for my coffee and hustled back up to the 3^rd floor. (It turns out he had another customer who moved his appointment to later.) He gave me my usual haircut. I asked him to remove my nose hairs again since it had been 3 months. He put the wax in but when it came time to remove the sticks they didn’t come out and he had to try a second time.

I went down to Santa Leña for a latte. I left an hour later and noticed a lot of people wearing jackets but at least they didn’t have umbrellas. At the entrance it was obvious we had a little rain but not at the moment. I got in line, and it took 10-15 minutes to catch a taxi because of the demand.

I was back at the apt by 5pm.

For the first time in 2 years, I completed one of my Rosetta Stone lessons - Unit 15, lesson 3.

 

Surgery update: 1. My surgery duration has been reduced from 6 hours to 5 hours (I guess they’re going to hurry 😊)  2. The hospital charge has increased from 8,540,000 to 8,720,000 but includes a one-night stay. (I was a little concerned about my surgery ending (on time) at 7pm and then having to checkout in a few hours so as not to stay “overnight”.)

After I recover from this latest surgery, I’m going to have to see a rheumatologist for what I suspect is arthritis in my feet.

 

The New York Times’ 7-day average of new daily infections and deaths has the US with 129,239 ð 119,291  ð 109,664 new cases and 2,291 ð 2,281 ð 2,219 new deaths.

Per Medellin Guru, as of yesterday, Colombia has a total of 4,142 ð 4,014 ð 4,020 newly reported cases with 147 ð 147 ð 136 newly reported deaths. Medellin has 261 ð NOT REPORTED ð 224 new cases from February 17^th to 18^th. Envigado has 9 ð NOT REPORTED ð 19 new cases from February 17^th to 18^th.

 

Funny pix of the day