hard to make good decisions
Jun. 26th, 2020 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwReaders will know that I've been trying to make up my mind about visiting my parents. I have a long list of small chores to do, and I worry about them. There have been lots of people in and out of their house (the six caregivers, the lawn guy who persists in walking in, a couple of others). My sister and I each talk to my mother every day, but it's clear that she's lonely - the caregivers spend most of their time in my father's room, not being companionable with my mother, although they're nice enough. Then, somewhat to my shock, one of the nearly daily people took a week off to go to the beach, and while he was away, one of the others got sick. We have been assured that it's not "the virus," but she's been ill for more than a week, and for the first two days, she showed up at the house with a fever. The agency hired a sub, especially since alternate-weekend person also had gone away, but the sub decided that the hours were too long, so she decided not to work for the agency. As a result, back from the beach guy has been taking 14 hour shifts to cover for the sick person as well as doing his shift. I had bought a ticket to go help out, but Arthur convinced me to cancel it and wait three weeks until I could get a dentist appointment to have my mother's cavities filled (was supposed to happen in late March). Still fretting that I should have gone. Of course, if one more person gets sick, they will probably call and say I *have* to be there. On the other hand, it's cool that my mother has customer loyalty on her side in other ways. Their central air conditioning stopped working. They have been using the same maintenance company since they installed it forty years ago, and the owner postponed all his other calls so he could do them first, worrying about old people in the heat.
In terms of strangers in the house, I am trying to figure out what to do about calling a plumber. We have a double sink in the kitchen, and there is a slow leak in the joint of the pipe on the right side. I cleared everything out from the cabinet underneath. It must have been happening for a long time, because some of my old canvas bags were moldy. I was sad to toss them, but in normal times, they are for hauling food, and I didn't want to risk using them again.
We can rely on just the other sink, and not call anyone, but getting it fixed is probably a more responsible thing to do. At least we can open all the windows to remove hypothetical germs, and require the plumber to wear a mask. I was about to call the plumber we used early last year, but Arthur reminded me of all their botches (eventually everything was warm and dry, the hoped-for outcome).
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I could track down someone else. I don't think we're going with Youtube this time.
In terms of strangers in the house, I am trying to figure out what to do about calling a plumber. We have a double sink in the kitchen, and there is a slow leak in the joint of the pipe on the right side. I cleared everything out from the cabinet underneath. It must have been happening for a long time, because some of my old canvas bags were moldy. I was sad to toss them, but in normal times, they are for hauling food, and I didn't want to risk using them again.
We can rely on just the other sink, and not call anyone, but getting it fixed is probably a more responsible thing to do. At least we can open all the windows to remove hypothetical germs, and require the plumber to wear a mask. I was about to call the plumber we used early last year, but Arthur reminded me of all their botches (eventually everything was warm and dry, the hoped-for outcome).
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/2019/01/31/
I could track down someone else. I don't think we're going with Youtube this time.
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Date: 2020-06-28 03:30 am (UTC)Unfortunately my parents are busy making some potentially bad decisions -- they're going to go hang out at my aunt's vacation house for 4th of July -- with three of her (currently unpartnered) offspring. So it'll only be 4 extra people they're exposed to -- except that it's from 4 different areas of CA so they'll have 4 different routes of exposure. And I expect that at least some of them will be hoaxers so they won't have been careful. Bah.
I whined when I heard about this, but it's not like I can actually do anything about it.
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Date: 2020-06-28 10:02 pm (UTC)https://viewclix.com/
It's like an electronic photo frame, with added chat feature. I just want to be able to see her from time to time, and think she like being able to see us. It's supposed to be easy to use, but we'll have to clear a space for it, run an extension cord, do something with an antenna, and find the WiFi network for it to work. I suppose I could talk a caregiver through it (I'll just be following the installation guide, after all), but I want to be there to make sure it works.
After all this, if nobody gets sick, maybe we can hold off until Christmas.