Tuesday, May 13, 2025; Karachi

1018 am I am back in my room after having the yogurt drink and putting on the 5 gallon water bottle on the water dispenser. Earlier when I was up, it was around eight and then shortly afterwards I went out; I put that container in the freezer and after having a few glasses of water, I had a need to go to the toilet and to my disappointment it was still liquidy. I am so very looking forward to eat the turnip meat that Nusrat sent, but I cannot because my stomach is still not behaving. So now I am thinking of moving food to the freezer, but the freezer is already full with a lot of things that I do not even know about. 

 

1137 am  On my bed; feeling I don't have much energy.  What am I doing wrong?  Am I accidentally drinking tap water?

302 pm  The temperature is close to 90°F in this room and the ceiling fan is running. Outside there is this constant rattle of a jackhammer.

 Earlier when I was about to leave the room the attendant came and asked me to come quickly: "Sir is not feeling well."  I went in and found father to be coughing, mucus coming out of his mouth; both of us stayed there with the bucket under his mouth to spit out his cough and then he asked for water which the attendant brought and we gave him some water and he still kept coughing.  At that time he was sitting on his bed, but then he got up and with help from the attendant sat down on the sofa.  He still was not able to talk and tell us what was wrong. I went out and had two boiled eggs; I went back to father's room and asked him what had happened; he said that he was in his bed and suddenly felt like he was not having enough air. I asked him to put on the oxygen but then asked him in precaution, if even with the oxygen on he feels he is short of oxygen, and he nodded.   I looked at the oxygen level and it was slightly over one and I tried to adjust the oxygen level by the knob, but the ball that showed the oxygen level did not move up.  I was not sure what was happening.  I went to my room and called the salesperson who sold us the oxygen concentrator.  He said there could be a lock in the humidifier; I should disconnect the humidifier and then adjust the oxygen level. Hung up with him and went to father’s room and got the humidifier disconnected, and at that time the ball went up high. I brought it down to two, but as soon as I put the humidifier bottle back on, the ball once again dropped to one. So once again, I went to my room and called the salesman; he asked me to tell him what bottle so I went to father‘s room and took a few photos of the bottle and sent him the images via WhatsApp. He called right away and asked me to clean up the holes at the bottom of the straw.  I hung up with him.  I could not find a common pin in the office so I got a pin out of a stapler. I straightened up the pin and took it to father‘s room, where the attendant who is a young man and has better eyes used it to clean up the holes which he said had blockage all around and then we put the straw back in and got the whole thing running and we were able to adjust the oxygen to about 2 1/2. I reduced it to two and asked father if he was OK and he was. I came back to my room to thank this guy for the tip and also asked him what kind of maintenance was required on this machine and he said that these machines were supposed to run for 10 to 15,000 hours and sometimes even run for 20,000 hours.

An ongoing issue is with the Mother’s Day cake that was delivered yesterday and I asked if it had the dry nuts which I had paid for.  I was told there were no nuts; it was a 3 pound cake but no, it was not exceptional, just an average cake.  I texted the cake maker woman and ask her why there were no nuts in the cake; she responded saying she did not see my order when she was making the cake--very unprofessional. I asked for a refund for the nuts. I have not heard back from her, but if she does not answer, I will threaten to stop the credit card payment and if she still does not refund 1000 for the nuts, I will dispute the credit card charges.

It is good to live in the moment, but it is better to be anticipation of the moment, and then live in that moment.