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We had a good day today.
Callisto ate most of her half-can of wet food for breakfast, ate a full half-can for dinner, and was rather voracious about it, and started drinking water again. I'm hopeful she's turned a corner.
In the afternoon, Kimberly and I visited the whitest, most overprivileged athletic club on the island. After noting the monotone clientele, we learned that they offered no day passes and their monthly membership required a one-year commitment, plus a $300 initiation fee. In other words, they wanted about $2,300 to join. We could obviously see it was intended to keep the poorer locals out and away from their club that they also sell to tourists. I felt nauseous as the gatekeepers (literal and metaphorical) tried to explain their policy.
Overall, it was the most disgusting thing I've seen on the island since we moved here.
We'd gone to the club because Kimberly has to have a pool that has shallow sections so that she can put increasing weight on her foot. She wasn't sure that the YMCA pool met that criteria because the main pool is all 4.5 feet or deeper. But today she tried out the kid's pool, and that runs from 1.5 feet to 4 feet, and they were happy to let her use it for that purpose, so score!
We now have a family membership at the Y, for the next several months while she does her PT, and we don't have to join the white imperialists club — which we would have if it was the only option for Kimberly to get the PT she needed to get walking again, but we would have been very unhappy about funding everything that's wrong in Kauai.
Afterward, Kimberly and I went to Safeway mainly to pick up some cat treats, but we also picked up some tasty pasta salads and some varieties of cooked chicken and some desserts for a tasty dinner to destress.
We forgot the cat treats.
Fortunately, Kimberly remembered before we got to the car, so I just had to stand in the always-long line at Safeway a second time.
Callisto ate most of her half-can of wet food for breakfast, ate a full half-can for dinner, and was rather voracious about it, and started drinking water again. I'm hopeful she's turned a corner.
In the afternoon, Kimberly and I visited the whitest, most overprivileged athletic club on the island. After noting the monotone clientele, we learned that they offered no day passes and their monthly membership required a one-year commitment, plus a $300 initiation fee. In other words, they wanted about $2,300 to join. We could obviously see it was intended to keep the poorer locals out and away from their club that they also sell to tourists. I felt nauseous as the gatekeepers (literal and metaphorical) tried to explain their policy.
Overall, it was the most disgusting thing I've seen on the island since we moved here.
We'd gone to the club because Kimberly has to have a pool that has shallow sections so that she can put increasing weight on her foot. She wasn't sure that the YMCA pool met that criteria because the main pool is all 4.5 feet or deeper. But today she tried out the kid's pool, and that runs from 1.5 feet to 4 feet, and they were happy to let her use it for that purpose, so score!
We now have a family membership at the Y, for the next several months while she does her PT, and we don't have to join the white imperialists club — which we would have if it was the only option for Kimberly to get the PT she needed to get walking again, but we would have been very unhappy about funding everything that's wrong in Kauai.
Afterward, Kimberly and I went to Safeway mainly to pick up some cat treats, but we also picked up some tasty pasta salads and some varieties of cooked chicken and some desserts for a tasty dinner to destress.
We forgot the cat treats.
Fortunately, Kimberly remembered before we got to the car, so I just had to stand in the always-long line at Safeway a second time.