Laura’s supposed to arrive in two days, August 9. Staying with Keith. Aug 9-19. She arranged this just be emailing him, I suppose. She’s never been to his new place which is convenient but a sty. Didn’t confer with me, and I certainly would have told her it was a stupid idea to come to New York City in August. Weather has tempered a little but it’s not idea. Who would even think of such a thing? She had the idea of renting a car and driving around upstate. Upstate meaning, north of Poughkeepsie, basically. I gave her the suggestion of taking a train to someplace like that and renting a car. Left it to her to make arrangements, because if it had been up to me I would have said, AFTER September 20, please!
New patient today. 77yo nig, quite pleasant, living in a Second Empire building at the beginning of Restaurant Row. Holy smokes, this was clearly remodeled to be a boutique hotel, how did it become a cool SRO for these people. The guy is from SC, which I figured out, and I told him I had SC background, so we bonded over that and lots else. But he’s one of those clients dying for company and thinking I’m somehow his maid. Actually he hasn’t much to do except cook and sweep his floor. Nice wood floor. His speech is almost totally incoherent. Some kind of Low Country jabber. Geechee Gullah?
I went out on an errand for him to Duane Reade, getting him some Vitamin D and a half-gallon of milk on his OTC card. (Welfare card for Medicaid recipients. I have one myself but spend it all on Con Ed. More about that later.) He was in a tizzy when I brought back D3, not Vit D, because that’s how they brand Vit D these days. I think D3 is the active ingredient of Vit D. Off on his own he went to the drugstore and came back with two big bottles of D3. Rest of the morning (9-12) I washed some dishes and swept his little floor (nothing there) and made his bed. With him. Actually enjoyed it. Jolly guy.
Came home, thought I’d take a nap. Did nothing. Internet. Later got around to making potato salad for Dottie tomorrow. Special recipe I found online, avocado and other things, but no mayo. I bought her coleslaw at the little Whole Foods at 50th and 8th because she must have it. In revenge I did not pay for it at the self-checkout. What else? Bought some great big wild shrimp which look to be unshelled and veined. The latter bit I have to take care of. EBT purchases, can’t complain. Got a chicken burrito of sorts, it was okay, filling, nothing great.
Clocked into Deputy for 1/2 hr to get the docs for the upcoming BICS half and 5k on the 23rd. I left it on for over an hour…have emailed Jen to strike it all.
