9/18 No Flu

This picture cant really do justice to the sky today but it was blue early and stayed that way all day.  Perfect temperature - no wind.  Buck and I had fun this morning and I felt guilty leaving him so I gave a nod to the parking faries and we both drove to Little Italy to visit an italian pastry shop I read about.  They have a patent on a cake....BUT I was really going for a ricotta with orange zest stuffed thing...sounded yummy.  Why didnt I get a slice of the patent cake?  Hes becoming quite the city dog walking closer in more populated places. 

The parking faerie demands patience but always appeases.  Went straight from there to Richard.

Buck is panting his way up the elevator and into Richards room.  It takes about 5 seconds of it and he opens his eyes and says BUCK!  Are you hungry?  No I had breakfast.  Its about half an hour to noon.  I have a couple pieces of pizza by the slice and the pastries.  I asked if he wanted to get up and do some exercise, and he wants to go to the roof. 


Is is for the most part tremor free today.   He didnt like or want the pizza- fed it to buck.  Didn't want a pastry but I think hes addicted to Orange Crush.  We sat there for quite a while.  I was sort of getting ambushed by people with Buck and this super old guy leaning half way out his chair and drooling out that side of his mouth asks about him then slowly maneuvers his electric wheelchair around all the obstacles on the roof and ends up by my right side.  Im being polite engaging with him as he speaks and try to get Buck to say hello.  Hes from Fort Worth originally.   Talked about hurricanes blah blah.  Then he asks me if I'm married...and color me stupid for saying no cause this man spent the next 10 minutes rattling off every inappropriate dirty joke he had learned in his 90 years and giving me the creeps. o.O

I escape to the indoors with Richard and we try keyboarding but the computer is sort of messed up and the mouse doesnt work well....messed with some instruments and headed back to 5th floor rec room.  Hes wheeling himself but Im assisting with verbal cues on holding one wheel and turning the other one way or the other to turn.  He gets it and does it both ways and is getting around pretty well.  So we're sort of mixing him wheeling me pushing depending on what he has in his hands.  His coordination and knowledge retention regarding maneuvering the chair has increased for sure...as well as his ability to get his left on the wheel and use it.

We go to the rec room and get a set of bike pedals and he peddled on them for a couple of minutes. Some how the creepy 90 yr old finds us in the middle. 

He gets tired easy and we didnt want to do too much without being monitored so back to the hobbit hole.  He was glad to have the rest of the day to himself.