I’m Always Open to Closure

One of the downsides to having memory issues (and the only real upside I can think of is forgetting who or what you don’t like) is that occasionally you actually forget what you don’t remember.  Fine - I’ll explain.

Let’s say you write a blog, and throughout the course of a day something happens that you know you should include.  But, instead of making a note of it to transcribe later, you tell yourself you’ll remember it when you need to.  Then, a few hours after you complete the blog entry and hit “publish” it occurs to you that you were fooled yet again.  So, here are a few snippets that were inadvertently excluded from Friday’s entry, along with some updates.

When the first nurse came into the prep room she squinted at the computer screen at the edge of my bed and said, “Mr. Meisbocher?”

“No,” I replied, “ it’s Meistrich!”

“Close enough,” she said.

“Not if you have another patient named Meisbocher who’s having a different procedure today, it’s not,” I shot back.

She sorta smiled and we became friends.

Friday night we were sitting on the couch eating dinner - me very slowly - and discussing the various marks COVID has left.  Shaw said I wasn’t looking at things the right way.  When I asked what he meant, he said, “Without COVID, you never would have had your afib get so bad you’d need surgery and you’d still be on those pills.  Plus, you wouldn’t have developed cataracts and be able to get rid of your glasses and contacts -“  And with that he dissolved into peals of laughter, finally admitting he could no longer keep a straight face.

The past few days have been interesting at best, as while I’ve shown improvement I still feel very sore and somewhat short of breath.  But, I’ve been told this is all fairly normal as the recovery isn’t exactly instantaneous.  So I’m taking things essentially one hour at a time.  And naps.  I’m taking lots of naps.

So that’s the closure of this part of the saga so far.

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Fun fact - I googled the Sherry Frontenac, that hotel in Miami Beach, and it turns out it’s still open!  I’d just assumed it had been knocked down for condos.  It was built in Art Deco style in 1947, and some of the photos show that it hasn’t been too updated in the years since.

But these photos are from 1963.