Still Offline, Coping With Parvo

The U.S. Embassy is an imposing, rather ugly modern cluster of buildings behind a high fence. I had visited it several times long ago during my previous travels to the country. All the security personnel are Nicaraguan. I heard no English spoken until my name was called in the waiting room where many Nicas were waiting for visas to travel to the States. My “counselor” was a woman near my age, who, without comment, filled out the appropriate form to un-enroll from Plan B. She took my new address and said that Social Security would mail me confirmation. I hope the order goes into effect before the letter arrives, which could take a month.

 

On the home front, Little Susie has come down with parvo virus. Silvio, the itinerant vet, came yesterday and gave her injections and some sort of magnesia liquid I must force down her throat three times a day. She is the most pathetic sight; she has hidden herself in holes she dug under flowering bushes, so she’s filthy. She smells bad, and I will spare you the fulsome details of her evacuations. Thankfully, Brynn was inoculated against parvo before we traveled here. She is so afraid of Silvio (after a couple of painful tick injections) that she hid under the bed long after he had gone. I do not know if Susie is out of the woods. Silvio promised to return today to check on her.

This morning, as I opened Word, a “MiClaro” screen appeared. Claro is the local communications company that provides this phone hotspot internet service. The message on the screen was that I needed to buy more credits to restore my internet. I immediately called Parzi, forgetting that it was only 6 a.m., woke him up, and asked him to put some more credit on this account. Duh!  All this agony for naught but a renewal of internet time! I hope he is not too peeved with my early call and that later this morning, I can finally begin posting these pages.

P.S. on Wednesday, 11 May. Claro flat-out refused to accept more money. Who knows why? Wednesday, today, I went to Movistar and signed up for a package that gives me internet access, but limited to one G. More after a month. Susie still alive, final injection this evening. Fingers crossed that she makes it. A sweet little dog.