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Thursday January 28, 2021
So our euphoria about helping Celeste was short-lived. Cristina came to get me at 1am when Celeste had passed away. Her heavy breathing had returned and she just didn't have the strength to fight any more. After a discussion with Ana, it was decided we would leave at 6am to take Celeste to their mountain home at Fenicia for burial.
Well we did get away at 6:20 after Cristina got all the drugs organized with notes to use for their other 2 dogs. Traffic was thankfully light and I breezed right through the center of Tulua on our way to Rio Frio and then upward to Fenicia. Our only hazards were cyclists everywhere, often times trying to take up the whole lane discourteously on 2-lane highway. They just ignore vehicular traffic going at much faster speeds as they socialize.
We got to the crest of the road to the acreage and almost high-centered Lizzie getting off the main road. German was waiting for us with Rex, the dog they adopted from us. He brought us down in his car. German's mother was waiting below and we had a nice visit as I took photos into the rising sun, not an easy chore...
Then German took Celeste a little ways down the mountain where they used to have hundreds of plantain trees now turned into grazing land. I was amazed at how fertile and loose the reddish dirt was! Mountains are rarely rocky in the Andes, mostly almost gravel. It was so easy to shovel that he had the task accomplished in minutes. RIP beautiful Celeste. Then German kindly drove us back up to the main road. Since my back was still ailing, I was thankful for that.
We came back into Tulua and started pharmacy-hopping trying to find more diapers for Ana Julia. We got turned away at Exito because it was not our pica-placa day.. After about 7 rejections we just went to John Faber Rojas to get the bill for 2 days of intensive care and medicines for Celeste. 150,000 pesos, or $42.18 USD is ridiculously small, but possibly that is because of the camera donation. That is an incredible difference from Canada or the USA in pricing, and even from Ecuador!
We were just leaving Tulua when we got a call from Movistar that they were at our door for a service call. They waited the 15 minutes while we made it home. I showed them that the upload + download speeds had returned to normal but they checked the equipment briefly in the house and then checked the antenna connections on the roof. Apparently we are good to go.... Where have I heard that before from them???
When they left we ran to our local pharmacy and found the required diapers. I guess they have daytime and nightime styles that are required. Who knew?
Tomorrow we will be away early, again, as we tackle Zorra's problems with John Faber. An operation on her stomach tumours and probably trying to repair her incontinence problem at the same time will be happening.
I hope you enjoy the pictures. Uploading was a problem today so I reverted to uploading piecemeal and was happy that that was working until I realized that most batches were uploading backwards! Bloody Google... Grrrrrrrr In this case it doesn't matter a whole lot and is not even requiring much for captions... That was the day’s excitement.
Al
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