Daily Update, May 15, 2023

    This morning, I got a call from Auntie Barbara. She and Michelle were in town for some medical stuff, and wanted to drop by my house afterwards, to visit both Mom and me. I said of course, and for once, i remembered to unlock the front door, since Auntie Barbara likes to let herself in. {Smile}

   She did let herself in when she arrived, and immediately went back to visit with Mom. Mom did respond when Auntie Barbara spoke to her and said yes when asked if she wanted to sing, but she didn't actually sign when Auntie Barbara, Mom's main nurse and I sang a few songs. Mom did listen, though. {Smile}

   Then Auntie Barbara and I went out into the carport to sit and talk.  go out to sit int he carport and talk. Michelle was out there and did join us. She let us have the two chairs and did sit for a bit when our main nurse brought a third chair out, but then she got up to look at things, and was standing and walking around during more of the visit. {Smile}

   When they were ready to leave, Auntie Barbara offered to take me along and drop me off if there was some place I'd like to go. I accepted, remembering some lab tests my doctor wants me to have before my next appointments. So Auntie Barbara and Michelle took me to Clinical Labs and dropped me off. There, they discovered that my cardiologist had already called in tests, but my primary care physician had not, so they had to call them for that. They did so, and had me do the tests. This involved a lot of waiting, so it was after noon by the time we were done. I just called Uber and had them take me home, without going anywhere else. {Smile}

   The secretary from Helping Hands Healthcare stopped by for a quick visit, to check that I'm taking care of myself. I was able to satisfy her that I'm doing enough. {Smile}

   I called the financial advisers in the afternoon. I got the secretary, who tried to connect me to my main adviser. When she discovered my adviser was away from her desk, and said she'd tell her to call me. They didn't that day, but it was close to closing time. {Smile}

   After that, I got a call from the organizer of the monthly picnic, which was scheduled for the next day. I confirmed that I planned to go, and we arranged transportation for me. {Smile}

   I had dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. First, I read scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read a Christmas card from a friend, a Valentine's Day card from her sister, and the Mother's Day card I gave her yesterday. After that, I continued _1960's Fashion in Pictures_, one of her presents. She did something new: repeating the year after I read the description of each picture. Next, I read "Four-Day Work Week Means More Productive, Less Stressed Employees," from _100 Uplifting Short Stories for Seniors_. Then I finished with the May 15th story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Mom enjoyed both pictures and stories. I think she particularly liked the pictures of clothing. {Smile}

   I did over 20 minutes of salsa dancing, and my arm swinging and head exercises. {Smile}

   I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after lunch and cleaning up. I found Perogies, and we joined the later short, large group event. Then I think we joined the later long, large-group event together. I say I think, because Perogies had to leave suddenly, but I think that was after the second event started. I finished out the event by myself. This and a little paperwork took me to time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. This time, I found Darkthough1 and Mistress Aegis in the game. We started to team up, picking out a story arc to work on together. However, before we got started, Phonso invited us to a task force. Darkthough1 and I joined it. Then Phonso ran a second task force which Darkthough1 and I also both joined. Then Phonso ran a third task force. Darkthough1 had been thinking they'd not do a third because it was a work night and getting late, but he decided it looked to be short enough, he stayed, and we both joined this one, too. I think I chatted with Nox around this time, too. This took me right up to time to exercise. Around my exercises, I did paperwork in the game. Then I started writing this and talking to Azurette. I ended up visiting Azurette's new base to see all the work she's put into one section, and making notes about most of my day, so I could write this up the next day. {Smile}