Hi a little earlier than usual. Going to get to bed soon for a change.
Had a visit with cardiologist for an ecocardiogram and visit with the doctor. While waiting for the doctor I caught up on reading email, and there was a disturbing one from the someone in the management of our building. It think that was the reason that my BP was much higher than usual. The top number was in 160s and when the doctor took it again later it was in the 150s. It is usually about 128 / 70. I walked over to Broadway afterwards and bought blueberries, strawberries and cherries and some bread from Breads Bakery. It seemed so nice out, not as hot as expected, but the thunder started and on the way home it rained hard. I had no umbrella, but the baseball cap helped a lot and it was too warm out to get chilled. It never rained or stormed again after I got home.
The building sent around the inspector with the bedbug dog again early this morning. Woke me up at 9. The dog sniffed around (same one with different person -- the husband of the previous one) and they took longer, but he did not find anything. If there had been a bedbug, he would have "sat down." I asked to be sure and it was OK. I thought that was the end of that. I could not go to sleep after that and my alarm was set for noon for my doctor visit.
Then the email was that this Saturday, they are going to have "preventive" treatment against bedbugs in every apartment. I hope they get 4C again since their problem is what started this. We won't have to wash clothes, but we have to put all clothing into plastic bags (from closet and drawers, pull out all furniture and vacuum very thoroughly, including behind everything and be out of there for four hours. They want us to take down any wall hangings and clean there too. I don't remember everything they want but it's going to be a lot of work. I emailed them back and said "this sounds more like you think someone has bedbug and want to treat it rather than a preventive.
I will look preventive treatments up online. I also asked where we would put all the plastic bags full of stuff and where are we supposed to go for four hours if it's 90 degrees out and/or stormy? We can't go anywhere and be inside, except for essential stores and we aren't going to hang out in a store for hours. They did not answer that one. They said plastic bags would remain inside apartment. I also asked how we prevent theft, since we have to go out for 4 hours? They did not answer that either.
I emailed a neighbor who is a few floors down from the 4C people. She had not told me she got the same inspections. She did and she will have to do all this too and she's been here as long as I have and has a roommate. She did not know about 4C and thanked me for the info and then realized that since she is also in a C apartment it made sense to stop the spread. So could it be that 4C's treatment didn't take?
I am looking forward to when this is all completed, say by Sunday when I put everything back in its place. i think there will be a lot of junk downstairs from people sorting out clutter. Whenever we saw a lot of stuff downstairs and outside during the pandemic it was usually about someone moving out. There have been at least 3 who have moved out and some new people have moved in. I've been seeing several dining chairs that were put out front of the building. I have a large mirror on a wall between two windows that I am not going to move. If I do, it may never get back in place. One of my brothers put it up for me and he's not around any more.
I thought my brother in GA was having his hip replacement today (8/12) but after I didn't hear from him for a while and told him so by email, he let me know that he was pre-occupied about it but that it will be on 8/18 next week. He is 73.
Oh, i did it again: wrote a lot of words.
Enjoy your day.