Daily Update, August 29, 2023

    I called the vet and left a message about Val being sick. I thought he'd had only one more incident. The vet called back not really aware Val was sick. She wanted me to double his insulin because his numbers have been so high so much. I promised to monitor Val's illness, well, I found more incidents, and he's had more since, too, so I called the vet's office. When they learned the diarrhea and vomiting was continuing, they suggested bringing him in late tomorrow afternoon. {small smile}

   I got a call from our former nurse just after that, and we had a nice chat. The chat was wide-ranging, but I did mention Val's appointment, and he said tomorrow he was busy. I already know Melanie is busy on Wednesdays, so I called Alan, the Lyft and Uber driver I have an arrangement with. He will be available at that time. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. I started with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I continued with the next part of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2021. Then I showed her the net few pages of Memories Space Race, followed by the first few pages, which were about the early manned space programs of the USA and the USSR, including the USA's launch of the first chimp in space, the USSR's launches of the first man in space and the first woman in space, and the USA's launches of the first American in space, and the first American to orbit the earth. Next, I read a long poem and a story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with the August 29th story, "Poor Mrs. Mouse," from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. Poor Mrs. Mouse had a lot of babies, and they'd all stayed out in the sun playing too long and gotten headaches. Now they were all in bed with headaches. Mrs. Mouse was out of food but couldn't go out shopping to get more when her babies were sick. A little bird heard her crying and flew off to tell her friends. Mrs. Bee brought her a honeycomb, Mrs. Butterfly brought her some butter, and Mrs. Dragonfly brought her bread and cakes. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises, two of my sitting arm weight training exercises, and my head exercises before and after Phonso's task force. Then I did the salsa dancing, for the warmup set, then the less structured set, for a total of over 20 minutes of salsa dancing. I did my other two sitting arm weight training exercises, my standing arm weight training exercises, my arm resistance exercises, my leg exercises - yes, for the first time since Val scratched me - and my arm swinging exercises, too. So, I did all my exercises for today for the first time since Val scratched me, too. {Smile}

   I read articles in the morning around some of the phone calls and hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after lunch. I saw Kitten on, but they barely responded, and seemed busy. So, I joined the short, large-group event, and then the long large-group event. During the latter, Kitten finally responded and joined us. At the end, Kitten finally got a target after the main event that she's been wanting but had never gotten. I did a little paperwork, then got back to Kitten. Perogies came in, and I told him about Kitten's accomplishment. He wanted to celebrate, but suddenly got tired, and had to bow out. Rather than try to celebrate without Perogies, Kitten and I did some missions for first one of my characters than another of my characters around more phone calls. The missions continued until a they went quiet about when I was ready for one more before reading to Mom. So, I did paperwork until it was time to read to Mom instead. {Smile}

   After supper, I got back late, and found Ulty had left, though we'd said hi earlier. I started on paperwork and said hi to Kitten on the chat server. After a while, Kitten said hi. We got together and ran a few missions for yet another of my characters. Then Phonso came on and invited us to a trial. We joined him, and we ran it with the group he recruited. I said goodnight to Nox, having missed our chance to talk again. I hoped to squeeze in one more mission after the trial, but kitten went quiet. They had had a long day. Around my salsa dancing sets I mostly caught up on reading comics. I soloed the mission I wanted to do with Kitten, and another mission, too, after my salsa dancing and other exercises. Then I did some paperwork and wrote some of this, making notes for the last couple of paragraphs to write from tomorrow because of time constraints. {Smile}