Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Daily Update, September 17, 2024

After breakfast on Tuesday, the driver came and took me to the monthly meeting. We had a nice chat on the way down. {Smile}

I got a phone call from Life Care Center outpatient physical therapy just as meeting was starting. I quickly made an appointment to start physical therapy next week Friday. {Smile}

The first part of the meeting was mainly a talk and film on fall prevention. It gave me some good and very welcome ideas. As a person with vertigo, fall prevention and planning to cope with falls are both big concerns for me. {smile}

The second part was lunch. We moved to the lunchroom, where I sat with a new gal at first. We had a nice talk, with me listening often, but also taking a turn to speak. Later she left, and I joined the main table. I mainly listened there. {Smile}

I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. Mom was awake when I went in. She listened mostly quietly but attentively. She didn't speak much, but when she did, she said particularly clearly that she was enjoying herself. First, I started with scripture and thoughts about it, first yesterday's, then today's. Then I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from last year. Next, I continued _The Picture Book of Babies_. After that, I read a story from _My Little Pony 5-Minute Stories_. I ended with two stories in _366 Stories for Bedtime_. First, I read September 16th's story, "Old Mr Bear." Then I read September "Baby Kiki." 17th's story, {Smile}

I did my head exercises between reading to Mom and eating dinner. I meant to do more, but it got too late. It's the day after the teeth, so I couldn't have done much more anyway; I just don't have that much energy yet. {smile}

After I got home from the meeting, I played Cross Stitch World to unwind. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I did some paperwork, then broke for some web browsing including comics. Then I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I found Dennis, but I excused myself to go clean myself up and did so. Then I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming, where I teamed up with Dennis, and we did a couple of Dennis's missions before it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

After dinner I played some Cross Stitch World and wrote up Monday's daily update. Then I played some more Cross Stitch World before hopping into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I started with paperwork, then said hi to Phonso. I joined him for three trials and chatted more than usual with other teammates. Some of them were quite chatty. That often doesn't happen. I also chatted with Nox on the chat server, too. After the trials, folks left, so I did some paperwork. Then I played some more Cross Stitch World before going back to City of Heroes: Homecoming. I was going to start more paperwork when Pierogies said hi, and invited me to a farm. I didn't fight alongside him, but dipped in and out, visiting while I was in, and first playing Cross Stitch World then making notes and a tiny bit of writing in this while I was out. {Smile}