It is day 218 of the pandemic and Broward County has reported a daily positive rate of 4.34%. Anything below five and the governor says we can reopen. However, the overall positive rate is 14.3% so even though the daily rate is significantly less, the overall rate of infection in the county is very high. As of today, Broward has 69,303 positive cases with 1,132 deaths. We are not out of the woods yet. The news from Mississippi is worse. They now have the highest rate of infection in the U.S.
I made an appointment with my primary care doctor for tomorrow. I’ve got symptoms of prostatitis. I have had this issue off and on for 50 years and I know the symptoms pretty well – aching in the testes, lower back pain, lethargy and low grade fever. Lately my temperature has been running 98.1F so I count the 98.4 today as being a little elevated. The standard treatment for years has been sulfa drugs. I assume it’ll be something similar. Get ready for a real bad body odor! Thank your lucky stars we are in quarantine and you don’t have to smell me.
Sulfa drugs have been around for years. At the beginning of WWII, penicillin was not in production and the only preventative for infections was sulfa drugs. Perhaps you saw some old John Wayne movie where he screams medic and the corpsman comes up, pulls a bag out of his kit, rips it open and sprinkles a powder over the wound. That was sulfa powder. It works but it works slowly. Unfortunately, the bacteria that cause gangrene grew faster than the drug worked. Amputations were common in the early part of WWII. In the later years of WWII, penicillin became readily available and the number of amputations dropped significantly.
The reason I mention this is the treatment for sulfa drugs can last as long as a month. The good news is that bacteria that cause prostatitis are slow to reproduce and as long as you take the prescribed dosage of sulfa over a significant length of time, it wipes them out pretty well.
The workers showed up today around 10:30am to work on the kitchen. They put down the rest of the quarter round molding because we are not having to tear out the living room wall. The cut made in the kitchen wall showed the back of the wallboard of the living room wall and there was no mold.
They then proceeded to paint the walls in the kitchen. They did a great job and I was glad to see they used Sherwin-Williams paint. That’s what I used when I moved into the house and repainted. Keith came over the night before the move in and we painted the entire interior of the house in one night. It really knocked us both for a loop but we got it done. Of course, we were 25 years younger then.
The father/son crew started to hook up the new dishwasher. They alarmed me when they told me they thought the dishwasher was used. However, I calmed down and realized what they were seeing were some cosmetic features on the underside and would never be seen. It certainly was in new packaging.
However, when I ordered the dishwasher from Lowe’s, they indicated I needed a package that included the water hose to the dishwasher – for around $18. What Lowe’s didn’t tell me was they did not include a power cord with the dishwasher. I had to run to Lowe’s today to get the power cord and a hose extension for the water line for the ice maker for the refrigerator.
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When I returned, they acid washed the tile in the kitchen and before they left for the day, they sealed the tile and grout.
They still have not replaced the pulls on the drawers or cabinets. I asked about that and they said they will be back tomorrow. I don’t anticipate them showing up again any time soon.
The good news is the lead contractor showed up today and told me he was ordering the new upper cabinets today along with the pull out shelving, the spice rack, and the garbage bin. They decided there was no way they were going to be able to match the colors of the upper and lower cabinets, so I get an all new kitchen! In addition, they will replace the crown molding. However, it’ll take 6 – 8 weeks for delivery. Again, my estimation of completion date by Christmas is looking more likely.
When they first started the acid wash of the tile, they told me when they put the sealer down I could not walk on the floor for 12 hours. By the end of the day, it was down to 3 hours. I anticipate being able to get back into the kitchen by 9 pm tonight. At least I can see the end of the beginning (with apologies to Churchill).
I’m still cooking out of three rooms but I couldn’t tonight because of the sealer. I ordered from Indian Harbor restaurant, one of my favorites and Delivery Dudes picked it up and brought it to the house. I did an appetizer of onion bahji (fried onion fritter) and an entrée of crispy okra masala. It came with three dipping sauces and a huge container of rice. With taxes, fees, delivery fee, tip it came to $38 but I’ll be able to get at least two meals out of the deal.
Stay tuned and stay safe!
