As I am afraid to get on public transportation, because masks are only recommended and not required, I have been shopping locally for my food ..basically within walking distance. This includes an expensive deli-like market, cheese shop, bakery, drug store, yoga juice bar, and lucky for me ..a farmers market. I am almost 75 years old and the icy sidewalks this winter pose a definite hazard. Many seniors in the apartment building where I live have fallen in the last year and ended up in nursing homes or with family members. I walk slowly and bought a walking stick to lower the odds this happens to me. I am cooking a lot more than I did before ..I don’t go out to eat except on rare occasions when either my brother or cousin show up for a visit. We get takeout and eat outdoors at the local park. As we had a mild winter, we could do that through December. I am subsisting on grilled cheese sandwiches, meatloaf, yoga fruit bowls, homemade soup, hummus or egg sandwiches and cooked veggies. I am trying to go vegetarian but have to be careful! It to eat too much high glycemic food which I seem to crave .
January 30, 2021
The first snow in our area this week....and as a doc, that used to mean either being risky and trying to drive in to the office, or simply moving all the appointments, canceling the day (and having fun in the snow but not making any money). But hey, it's 2020---this snowstorm, I simply did telemedicine visits from my laptop at home rather than from my desktop at the office. My staff worked from home, checking phone messages every hour or so, and communicating with me either by text or via our electronic medical record. So, patients still got seen, I still made some money, and we don't have to reschedule anyone! Covid made telemedicine rise to the forefront....about time. It's one of the silver linings in this pandemic!
December 20, 2020