Thursday, August 07, 2014

Throw'em Up!

Settling in at home has it's advantages. While my father gets acclimated with current events, I get a chance to work on my stuff. It's colder than I expected so stacking the fire place is a round the clock endeavor. Not a lot of dialog from him yet, but we did cover some ground on short term goals.
 

With a need to move into the city we agreed that the area of Parque Forestal would be convenient enough. Close to the clinic and several modes of transportation, it will be a good location to be accessible and cut costs. The house he's in now if paid up until December so it'll be a move for next year. A condo with an elevator and less than a couple blocks from a metro station is what we agreed would be good. In preparation for that we'll be working to sell a lot of the furniture and things that he could do without. My father's spent a life time collecting books. Most are in english so I'm not too sure they'll go for much in a spanish speaking country. Either way, we'll be working on putting things for sale on ebay equivalents remate.com and mercadolibre.com.  If you're interested in anything, send me an email (shipping not included).


Next things I need to look into is claiming his social security benefits. Well past retirement age, this isn't something he ever paid much attention to. Having lived many years in USA and Chile, it'll be an aggregation of each. Finally, we found a neurological therapy center, ClĂ­nica Los Coihues, which offers mobility and expression rehabilitation. His right arm mobility is improving gradually and he keeps working at it on his own.  Here he is raising it all the way up. Finger agility is still limited although he can move all his digits. 



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