8/1 update

Planned to visit dad on Wednesday August 1 for dinner. Left work at 3:00, left home at 3:45 arrived at the house around 5:30. Connie (the tenant) was at the door with her rent check. She introduced herself and said she was concerned about dad’s hand being swollen.
She gave him her check and left. Dad said he was hungry I suggested we eat at Christopher’s (a Mexican restraint that mom liked).
He said the coffee machine still wasn’t working and he had it unplugged. It looked like to wanted to continue the rinse cycle so I put more water in it and a bowl under it and we left.
We took the explorer and he didn’t have trouble getting to the car or getting in, but some trouble with the seat belt.
He directed me to the restaurant, navigate the parking lot and the step into the restaurant, placed his order - all good. We ate and got back to the house.

The coffee machine wanted another rinse cycle(!) so we started that.
He saw he had a message from his coffee buddy about their meetup tomorrow. He said he wanted to go to the dr about his hand after his coffee thing.

I asked him about the box that came which was the Bay Alarm “life alert” kit. I set that up and tested it out. I told the agent who answered the test call hat it was a test, but he wanted to talk to dad to make sure all was okay. Dad answered him and the. The agent said something like “thanks for choosing Bay alarm, if you have any trouble....etc. and expected an answer from dad. He couldn’t make out what was said because the guy spoke so fast. When dad said “ I didn’t understand” he qagent repeated his spiel REALLY LOUD. Of course it was less intelligible so I asked him to speak slower -  which he did but EVEN LOUDER which a) didn’t seem possible and b) didn’t help. Dad shook his head but did say some thanks - which the guy took as an answer and hung up. I was glad that was over.

In the box, besides the (very loud) main unit,  was -
- a bracelet - dad didn’t want to wear it, so I put t in the bedroom on the headboard
- a pendant - I put this on one of the handrails inthe bathroom
- a lock box - dad didn’t have a spare key, so we left that for later
- mini medical summary ona fridge magnet - this is for the emergency people can have the info they need. We left that for later
- a form to tell the bay alarm folks where the key is, pills dads taking, etc. Also saved for later.

Dad tested the pendant from the bathrooms and it worked. I made real sure the call didn’t go through to the agent.

The coffee machine was (finally) done and we ran a couple of test cups which he pronounced good (looked to weak to me but whatever.

I told him I’d calll him tomorrow and said goodbye.