Monday, 6 January 2014

I slept both well and long last night and didn't get up at all early. So, of course, I didn't get out for a walk.

I taught 5 units of Berlitz lessons today (although the first was actually a no-show): 9:45-10:30, 12:00-1:30, and 3:00-4:30.

We I came out of my office on break in the middle of the second lesson (around 12:40), I saw that David was not in the apartment. At first I figured that he had gone down to get the mail or to sit for a while on the bench near the parking lot. But, when he didn't return after 7 or 8 minutes and I could see that he was NOT on the bench, I knew that he must have set out on a longer walk. Just before I returned to class from my break, I brought up "Find My Friends" on my phone to see where he was (I had noted that he HAD taken his phone with him!). Sure enough, he was up Ein Gedi, the street where the entrance to our parking lot is. I didn't have time then to do anything about it, but I wasn't surprised when he called me a few minutes later. I had to tell him to stay put until my lesson was over (about a half-hour more). Really, I'm not supposed to even take phone calls during the lesson, but this was obviously important, and, of course, the students weren't upset.

When the lesson was over, I grabbed things quickly and headed out to find David. I could tell from "Find My Friends" that he was still about a block up Ein Gedi on the other side. When I got out to the parking lot entrance and looked up that way, I saw an ambulance up right where he was (and I did NOT see him), so I was pretty sure they were there for him.

Sure enough, when I got up there he was in the ambulance, and the paramedics told me than someone had called them because they saw David having a seizure. They had already checked him pretty thoroughly, though, for any other problems, such as blood pressure irregularities or high or low blood sugar. He was actually feeling fine by then, and we all agreed that there was no reason to take him to the hospital. Instead, they drove us down to our apartment, and I helped David walk back in here without any difficulty.

Of course, David had INTENDED to walk to the bench in the green strip but had gotten lost. It just shows that we've still got quite a bit of work to do.

We ate lunch at home today (as we had planned), since we only had 1.5 hours between 1:30 and 3:00 (and we'd already used quite a bit of that getting David home safely, anyway). We had potato salad and vegetarian weenies wrapped in whole wheat tortillas.

After my last class, we went down to Ice Park for frozen yogurt and a couple of walks around the mall. We also paused at McDonald's to sit and watch the 6:00 p.m. show. Diana had a new routine with a new costume, so that was nice to see.l