Today is a Satruday and I brought my brother for a pre-visit to an oral surgeon before he has two teeth taken out. My brother's mouth is a mess, his teeth were put on the back burner because of all of his other medical issues. At the "new" nursing home, there is a visiting dentist, so it's been much easier to address his tooth decay. Unfortunately he needs two teeth pulled out.
Learning from the disaster of someone else taking him to the cardiologist, this time I decided I would take him. I picked him up early because I wasn't sure of where I was going to park and how long it would take us to get into the office. Actually, it was pretty easy, the oral surgeon is only about a mile away from the nursing home.
But we were 45 minutes early, and the surgeon was 45 minutes late. My brother gets fidgety and anxious if he has to wait, so I was very thankful when the surgeon walked in. The whole visit tgook about 15 minutes, including getting new xrays. I need to call the cardiologist and make sure it's ok for him to get the surgery, and then we are ready to go. I am going to ask our case manager to arrange for someone else to take him in for the surgery. Not too bad, considering that my brother contradicted me every time I raised a health issue, etc. But ok.
Then I took him to a Jewish delicatessen located nearby and he order matzah brie. For those of you who don't know, that's fried matzah that has been soaked in eggs. He was in seventh heaven.
But a wierd thing happened. My purse was on the floor and a service person picked up, gave me a wierd look, and said it should go on a chair. I thought nothing of it until I noticed pretty soon after we left the restaurant that my cell phone was gone. The surgeon's office was closed by then, and I went back to the restaurant to check for it but there is no phone. I am pretty sure the waitress stole it, but I will never be able to prove it.
Too bad we didn't go to our usual restaurant!!!
Meanwhile, if I include time spent on dealing with the cell phone (I haven't replaced it yet)_, it took about 5 hours.
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