Daily Update, October 9, 2023

    A while after breakfast, I contacted Uber, and they came and took me to my doctor's appointment. They took me fairly quickly, and I told the nurse practitioner my primary concerns. Then my doctor came in, and he discussed my test results with me. Things are moving in the right direction, including my weight, which was the lowest he's ever seen it, and the lowest it's been in decades. When we were done, I took the next test order down to the lab downstairs. I'll go there to get it done. I hope with them already having the order, I'll have no problem, but even if I do, we'll be in the same building, so I can walk up to my doctor's office and see what's going on at the very least, and hopefully get the order from them that way. {Smile}

   When I was done, I contacted Uber, and they took me home. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that.  first, I read scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read more of Mom's niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019 next. After that, I showed her a couple of pages of pictures in _Visions of Scotland_. Shew as looking tired, though, so I moved on to a few short poems and a short story from _365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes_. I finished with "The Lost Ring," The 9th of October's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime: A Tale for Every Day of the Year_. One day, Jane too a big basket into the woods to collect hazelnuts. She threw stale bread to squirrels, birds, and rabbits along the way. Suddenly, she realized that she'd lost the silver ring her mother had given her for her birthday. She tried to retrace her steps and search all over the ground. Even the woodland friends she'd made couldn't find it. Then the jackdaw flew down and asked about something shining in her basket. Jane's ring was among the nuts. {Smile} 

   I walked all the way down a ramp that goes around most of a courtyard after seeing my doctor. then I walked back up it, and really felt it when I walked back up the same ramp. Later, I did my walking exercises, and my salsa warmup okay. I started my less structured set and had to stop and treat hypoglycemia. Then I actually managed to get back to it and finish the first piece for almost 15 minutes of salsa dancing. However, I was too tired to continue. I hope that's a sign that the ramp at my doctor's gave me a good workout. {smile}

   Before I left for the doctor, I read a few articles. After lunch, I read comics and articles. Then I wrote yesterday's daily update and shared it. Only then did I hop into City of Heroes: Homecoming. Both kitten and Perogies were on, but Kitten disappeared when I was trying to start a conversation. I did talk to Perogies a fair bit. I asked about teaming up, but they wanted to wait until Kitten came back. They'd disappeared when tried to talk to them, too. It took longer than we hoped, so we joined the later short, large-group event. During that Kitten finally showed up. When it was done, we three got together on the new characters. They had both run up the levels but wanted to continue the story arcs with me. I think we ran three missions of the next arc before it was time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I found Kitten. they wanted to do something, but Perogies was nowhere to be seen. We waited a bit, but they didn't come back, so I tried talking to Ulty and qworty. They were both happy to talk. Ulty was busy roleplaying, but qworty was available. We ran several Halloween-themed missions they had, which helped both him and us with the rewards you can get from them. Then we switched to the characters qworty and I teamed with for the last of the story arcs last night, while Kitten stayed on the same character and did more of that arc. We stopped earlier than usual because the next mission is really long. We'll do it sometime when we have more time. I also had a nice talk with Nox. We even discussed something I started thinking about with the stories I'm working on... I just hope I can do this idea justice. {Smile}