Daily Update, October 25, 2023

    Wednesday, I didn't get out, but Mom did. Our main nurse got her into her wheelchair, called a wheelchair taxi, and took her down to get a blood test done. Then he brought her back home. He had her dressed up nicely for it, too. {Smile}

   I did have a short text conversation with our former nurse, which was nice. {Smile}

   I called my doctor, and got their answering machine again, so I left another message asking them to call me back. {smile}

   Then I called my cable provider and tried to ask them to come fix a connectivity issue I found after their tech left. However, they decided it was a firewall issue or something similar, not their equipment, and told me to get someone else to help me. Okay, but I did think it was worth a try. {Smile}

   Then I got two calls from my doctor's office. In the first, I told them about some problems, including needing another referral for physical therapy, since the first didn't work out, and a referral for diabetes education, too. Then they called back to follow up on something else, and I told them about some foot trouble. They'll give me a referral for that, too. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom on Wednesday and read to her before that. She was tired, responding rarely, and closing her eyes a lot, but she had a big day going out with our nurse. So, I didn't worry about her minimal response. I still read scripture and thoughts about it first. Then, I finally finished her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2022. I skipped _1950's Fashion in Pictures_ so she woudln't have to open her eyes as much, going straight to a story from 365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes. Last, I finished with “Boko's New Hat,” the 25th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. Boko lived in a hot country, where the sun is right overhead at noon. One day, his mother brought home a new straw hat with a red ribbon around it for Boko. He was very proud of it and ran off to show it to his friend. His mother reminded him to wear it when he plays, and not to lose it. but he took it off to play leapfrog, and a monkey grabbed it and climbed to the top of a coconut palm. Boko couldn't climb the tree, and the monkey wouldn't come down. Then Boko had an idea. He and his friends fetched saucepans and spoons from home, stood under the tree, and banged as hard as they could. The monkey dropped the hat, and Boko put it on. {Smile}

   I did my walking exercises and my leg exercises after saying goodnight to Nox on the chat server. Then I did my warmup salsa dancing set. After a break, I did my less structured salsa dancing set. I did not get dizzy enough during either that I had to stop early. {Smile}

   I read articles, comics, and the web novel in the morning. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming after lunch. I started talking with Pierogies and Kitten. Pierogies wanted to do the early short, large-group event first. Then he wondered about the early long, large-group event, but I had to admit that I was unlikely to not dose during that. So, we got our warshades, and we finished the current warshade story arc we've been working on, with a break for the later short, large-group event, too. Then one more mission on the warshades, and it was late enough Pierogies said goodnight. Kitten and I chatted until it was time for me to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming fairly quickly. Letting some friends know I was doing so through the chat server. Paradox hopped in, and we started to team up, but he spotted a task force he wanted to catch. I was able to grab a character who'd benefit from it and join. It filled before Meroa could also join. We ran that task force, and then Paradox spotted another task force. We joined that one, too, and Meroa missed it too. I also started chatting with Nox on the chat server. Paradox and I also started working on paperwork int he game, and I was inspired to introduce him to a tutorial, and run it with them, since it's set up like a story arc, only with a bunch of talking, and only one mission with fights. Then Paradox did some more paperwork inspired by the tutorial and we chatted with Owl girl a bit ont he chat server before we said goodnight. Then I started my exercise, doing more paperwork, writing this, and reading one of the web novels during breaks and afterwards. I finished before bed, but too late to share it then; I'll have to share it in the morning. {Smile}