Thursday morning, right around breakfast time, I called my endodontist, and got them on the second try. they sounded happy to hear from me and told me to come in at 2:30pm that day. I took Uber down a bit early to be sure I didn't get there late. I had a nice chat with the driver, who knew me. We caught up with each other since we hadn't seen each other recently. {Smile}
While I waited for my appointment, I got back to one of the web novels I'd been reading and read two more chapters. They're not long, but he was that quick getting to me. He came, and checked all chewing teeth on that side, since I had noticed stuff both top and bottom. He thought it had just gotten bruised, most likely while grinding or clenching my teeth overnight. I told him I wear a mouth guard nightly for just that problem. He said it can still happen, even with a mouth guard. I must agree this seems likely. And it's such a relief not to need more dental work! They didn't even charge me for this visit. {Smile}
Ready to go home, I checked Uber. They wanted almost $50 to take me home, because they were so busy! I checked my ride down; it was slightly under $15 with a $1 tip included. I decided to wait and see if the price went down. Then I remembered Lyft, which I used before I switched to Uber because they tend to be slightly cheaper, and a LOT better at knowing where places are. Lyft wanted not much more than I'd paid to get down there to take me home, with the Lyft Pink discount. I thought it was much more reasonable and took Lyft home. I had a nice chat with the driver on the way, and learned there was a tour ship in. That's always a busy day for Uber and Lyft here. {Smile}
I ate lunch and dinner with Mom and read to her before dinner. She was awake and seemed to enjoy the pictures. I began with scripture and thoughts about it. Next, I read from her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2019. After that, I continued _Classic Christmas: Vintage Fine Art Picture Book Volume 2_ next, describing each picture, since there were particularly few words. Then I read a story from _Disney 3-Minute Bedtime Stories_. I made sure to describe each picture as I went along. I finished with the 28th of December's story from _366 Stories for Bedtime_, "A Winter Coat." In spring, summer and autumn, Mrs. Stoat was seen wearing her smart, reddish-brown coat. Both Ollie Owl and Rollo Rabbit had seen her, though Rollo preferred to keep his distance. One day, they saw a lady in an elegant white coat. Ollie asked who she was. She replied that she was Mrs. Stoat and asked if he didn't recognize her in her ermine white coat. She said the best people have two coats. {Smile}
I did my head exercises while I was waiting for Uber to take me to the endodontist. Then I decide to try the weight training exercises that bother my shoulders with neither weights nor counted speed and pauses and did all three with no shoulder trouble. If I have little to no trouble overnight, I'll try to work up from there. Then after teaming on City of Heroes: Homecoming for the evening, I did my walking exercises, my arm resistance exercises, my leg exercises, and my three weighted arm weight training exercises, all three with reduced weights. This was interspersed with writing this and reading something on the chat server for breaks. {Smile}
I read comics and several articles in the morning. Then I I peeked into City of Heroes: Homecoming between lunch and going to the appointment. There, I had a nice chat with Pierogies. After my appointment, I wrote up and shared yesterday's daily update. Then I went back into City of Heroes: Homecoming and did paperwork until Pierogies came on. We teamed up for some missions on our not-quite-so-low-anymore characters. This took us up to time to read to Mom. {Smile}
After dinner, I joined the late-night short, large-group event. Then I began writing this up and checked comics before getting back into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I let some folks on the chat server who I often play with know I was in City of Heroes: Homecoming. Then I did paperwork and such until Dr. Faustus said on the chat server that he'd come join me with our little characters, including the one I started a couple of nights ago. While I was getting ready, Kitten spoke up, complaining about falling asleep. The three of us teamed up to do the next story arc. Owl Girl joined us near the end of Dr. Faustus's last mission. Then we ran my last mission; the game makes us do that particular mission separately, I think because we make a choice. Usually, if two have a mission, they only have to run it once for both of them to get credit, but not that mission. Then Dr. Faustus and Owl Girl left, and Kitten and I ran through the missions of another contact I had and helped me start yet another contact's missions. This ran late enough that I didn't try to do my salsa dancing. I really didn't realize until it was too late in the evening that I probably could do my salsa dancing if the tooth trouble was all bruising. I'll restart that soon. Between and after the exercise, I wrote a little of this, and took notes to write from for a lot more, and actually got to bed a bit earlier, thanks to getting only a little distracted with checking the game, reading articles, and chatting with folks on the chat server. I need to make this a habit. {Smile}
