Mister Bill is seen here holding this season’s tick collection. They are floating in 190 proof Everclear. He pulled all of these arachnids off of his body. Bill uses a new tick repellent that has picaridin in it and swears by it. He might have been pulling my leg, but he claimed that at the end of the summer he plans on drinking this concoction, “Why let good booze go to waste.”

Today, we are on a mission of mercy. Jane took her 98-year-old father to the hospital on the 4th. Harry had really low BP, 103/38. It being a holiday the ER was slammed and since Harry was not actively dying, or at least not quickly enough, he was a low priority. Harry was not a patient patient. A long day ended with Harry finally being admitted. Either that day or the next, after a battery of tests the doctors determined that he had internal bleeding, in his upper digestive system. He was scoped and got a transfusion and some meds. Having treated him, now they want to evict him. Gotta flip that bed. But they don’t want to send him home. He needs to build his strength up first. They are talking rehab.

Anne gave Harry a book to read, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. The story is basically that of a Swedish Forest Gump. In addition to the novel there is also a movie, but like in the American Forest Gump, the movie leaves much of the book’s story out. In this story the old man escapes from a nursing home. Harry definitely does not want to be in the hospital. Making this story a bit seditious. They have Harry on the eighth floor. Climbing out the window is not an option.