Sunday, June 5, 2011

Walk #3

The day kind of went like this:

8:30 wake up, finish reading my book.
9:30 make breakfast with Anne.
10:30 Anne pushes me to go for a walk with her. I refuse because of her leg. She insists. I relent.
11:00 We take a cab to a beautiful park. We head down some stairs, walk about 50 yards, and Anne starts limping. Drastically.
11:15 We happen to be right in front of a cafe so we sit down for a coffee and a rest.
12:00 We decide to continue our journey back to the street to get a cab.
12:05 I wonder what the emergency number in Turkey is.
12:06 I call Tolga. No answer.
12:07 I call Tolga's work phone. No answer.
12:08 I call my American friend - the walking book of information about what to do for an ambulance, getting her to a government hospital, etc. My friend says she will call me back.
12:09 Anne insists she can walk up the stairs. It's painful to watch her try.
12:10 My friend calls back, and suggests we don't go today, for several reasons, and if I wait until tomorrow, her husband can bring us to a place for better service. She offers to come help us up the stairs.
12:15 Anne's made it up the stairs, one step at a time. Almost falling when she tried to use her bad leg as a lead, not understanding "the limp".
12:30 We make it home. Anne sits down.
1:00 I go to the market.
3:00 I play tavla with Baba. He wins, but complains of a sore shoulder muscle from playing tavla, saying its his rheumatism.
3:45 Baba lays down for a minute, but gets up and asks if I have a blood pressure cuff because he thinks he blood pressure is low. I don't, so he sits at the table with his head down.
4:00 I go for a long walk.

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