10/2 Berkeley Bound

So he called me at like 1am ish?  I am not sure of the time and I had fallen asleep with my phone in the bed and it just barely woke me up at the end of it...Called me back again near 2am.  He wants to know if he has any appointments today....I explained the time, that everyone was sleeping that it was Sunday, and that I was bringing him sushi around lunch.  When he does this I swear they have done something to his meds.

Buck had a potty emergency at an unreasonably early hour for a sunday so we crawled the streets at sunrise.  Thank god no one else in the entire city was awake.

I discovered confectioners sugar in the cabinet and had a perfect cup of coffee while I  worked on a website project.

Spent the afternoon with Arlene and Lee in Berkeley.  Berkeley is like a cleaner San Francisco that doesn't smell like a toilet ;)  The bay area bridge is scary.  Going that direction you are on the lower portion and the only time I remember seeing this as a thinking adult is when it collapsed....it's all I can think about...and the two east side lanes have sun shining through the supports which creates an epileptic seizure inducing flickering of light.

Richard called me in the middle of the bridge not talking very coherently, plus I have traffic, wind and other things interfering.  I think I hear him mentioning messages...and I think hes saying this because I called him earlier to let him know I was going to be later since Arlene and Lee had invited me to visit.  When I say WHAT?!  He quickly apologizes and tells me to go back to sleep.  Richard can exit a conversation on the telephone faster than it starts.  WAIT WAIT!  Its almost 1pm now, and Im on the Bay bridge on my way to Berkeley...OHHHH!  He lights up.  Tell him we'll all be over a bit later and will bring him his sushi.

Its my first venture out of the city really.  Its not a far dive its just a popular route with traffic.  They live way up on a hill with double back turns on the way.  Little slice of heaven up there on a perfect 68 degree sunny day. 



We visited and took a long walk up in the hills / regional park.  Great day.  Glad we turned back when we did because this is probably the latest Ive gotten home and Im sure they got home even later.

Lee has a a current obessisive project with a new exercising thing.  Involves smaller pilates type balls and we did a back stretch and OH MAH GOD!  My hips and back still feel good.

We convoyed back over the bridge to go to Richard and got there at about 5pm just before dinner was coming. Took a bit as they were filming some movie on upper Pine.  All I saw were blacked out armored vehicles and a really cool blacked out custom motorcycle...like a batmobile bike.

I left them to visit and walked about a half mile to his/my favorite sushi place to get him some dinner.  He ate well, swallowed well, drank his entire ensure like shake to wash it down and had a couple bites of his lemon meringue pie.  Good meal.  All sitting up in his chair and eating on the table. 

Nurse comes in to give meds we ask what it is - its the carbidopa again...and its crushed....MOTHER TRUCKER!   She left came back with a pill, but of course I'm thinking they probably did that to him last night and that's why he was all looped out calling me at 1am.

Transport to the VA is coming at 7.30a.  We got his clothes together for him and I took his birkenstocks home with me.

It took me AN HOUR to find a fooking parking spot. 

/shake angry fist at San Francisco


His voice was good.  He was lucid.