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 So here’s how it all went down. On the afternoon of Friday, September 4, 2010, I took Dad to the Old Town Salinas branch of the Bank of America to cash his social security check. Dad refuses to get direct deposit because he wants to have the tactile feel of cash in his [...]  Following is my impression of the Chico Motel 6 that Dad and I stayed at while Visiting Cousin Marian England-Graham. I have to major complaints: The wifi at this motel 6 is so bad that it’s virtually worthless. I had to call tech support, at the direction of the local motel staff, and when [...]  My father told me that years ago, when the Monterey tunnel was being built, it was pushed by the then-mayor of Monterey, a woman named “Molly”, and her political opponents called the tunnel “Molly’s Hole”. I don’t know if that’s true or just something people say. Dad told me a story that when he was a young teenager, the family cat, who may or may not have had a name, drug in a living half grown rabbit. Dad’s mother told him and his brother Buddy to kill it so the family could eat it for dinner. This was during World [...] Dad told me a story today about when he was working as a carpenter putting up the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. As they were clearing the land, they came across a nest of quail eggs. The construction was diverted around the nest and the eggs were allowed to hatch. The little chicks grew up [...] So last night (Tuesday) I went to the March 2010 meeting of the Monterey County Democratic Central Committee (MCDCC) of which I am an alternate member for District 1. In other words, if Ed Weinstein, the primary, shows up, I don’t vote, and thus far, I’ve never voted. There was a lot of excitement [...] Dad’s been weak the past couple of days. After the Fall a few days ago, he started getting quite week. It seems like cause and effect, but there doesn’t seem to be anything connecting the two things. He doesn’t seem to have injured himself in any way; no pain or swelling or other obvious [...] Dad is still feeling weak today. His oxygen levels are low when he isn’t using oxygen, so this seems to be more than psychological. He took a shower awhile ago, and when he got out of the shower, his oxygen reading was down to 71%, very very dangerously low. Now he’s using his [...] Saturday I went to a meeting of the California Democratic Party Region 9 in Salinas at the Labor Temple on Pajaro Street. The point of this meeting was for designated members of various democratic clubs to vote to endorse candidates for the upcoming June primary for the California Assembly, State Senate and Congress. There [...] Friday night Dad had another fall. Dad had been having a good day. We’d gotten up early to take him to a Foot doctor to look at the toenail on one of his big toes that had been smashed in his fall that got him in the hospital this last time. The toenail had [...] Today was Dad’s first day out of rehab. A nurse from Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) came by to do an initial evaluation of Dad, and to fill out and sign paperwork. After she left, I asked Dad if he would go with me to drop off the list of prescriptions at Dr. Patton’s office, [...] Dad’s home from Rehab. Yesterday we went for a drive out through Castroville and into Seaside, where we stopped at Church’s Fried Chicken and got a box of chicken. We came home and sure enough, with two minutes he was screaming at me, saying that everything I’ve done for him over the past month [...] I just got a call from Washlin, the social worker at the Ridge Rehab facility. Washlin said that there had been a snag, Dr. Patton didn’t sign a medical release for Dad, and he’s out of town today and won’t be back until tomorrow, so Dad’s in for another day. I thought of asking [...] |
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