Cynthia and I have spent the last couple of days getting oriented, meeting the Taylor family and Bill Langley, tackling the public transit system and checking in on Richard.Arlene officially handed the reigns over to me at a formal meeting at the Tunnell Center on the afternoon of the 1st. Cynthia moved to her friends in San Mateo the day after. On my own I fumbled my way through public transit. Its a long trek.
I'm freaking exhausted. Confusing buses, miles of walking, and always lost with a dying cell phone battery...i bought a monthly fast pass for public transit, so hop from one bus to another according to what my phone tells me to do. Sometimes I'm on the wrong side of the road taking the bus in the wrong direction.
I broke an arm of my glasses days before I left, so went to see an optometrist at the end if the day today who thought it a good idea to dilate my eyes. Then I walked out of there unable to read my phone gps to get home...
Everywhere i go people are standing in the street smoking pot. REALLY good quality pot. You can smell it. I finally figured out last night that it's a bunch of medical marijuana card carrying people after a tv commercial advertising it...
Buck loves the parks and drags me down the stairs carrying his own leash in his mouth. We're having to walk 2 or 3 times a day, so I get one in for the am, go see richard, come back and take him out again then leave for more whatever errands...then once more at night.
I have to move my truck once a week on tues from noon to 2 pm for street cleaning. Going to drive to richard those days and bring buck. There is a garden on the roof there where he can get some sun and visit.
He's not eating because they are trying to feed him boxed potatoes with canned salty gravy, mashed peas, mashed protein that smells like cat food...etc. He takes one bite of each them puts his fork in the middle and messes it all up so it looks like he ate.
I brought him a protein shake with fruit today...going to start smuggling in other food as well. He's skinny, completely off blood pressure medicine, lucid but tired.
Trying to get him on b12 injections to help with energy, and if we can get him some decent fuel for his body, I think he'll bounce back.
His left motor is better. One eye is blurry, other us double vision, but he was able to read and recognize phone numbers today.
He's already declared he's making his cavatelli for our first meal when he gets home. Need to make that happen in 3 weeks or less or it goes to out of pocket expenses.
I'm bringing in a big wall calendar tomorrow so he can see the countdown.
You can email him there and they will print it and bring it to him. He's in 508a.
Email care of his case manager, Bella:
Address:
The Tunnell Center
1359 Pine St
San Francisco, Ca 94109
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