Daily Update, July 4, 2024

    Happy Fourth of July! If you celebrate it, of course. If not, I hope you had a nice day. {SMILE}

   Yes, this is about Thursday. I got a phone call from Helping Hands Hale's secretary, jut checking up on me. I asked about the surgeon's diagnosis which she and I heard on Tuesday, and she clarified a few things. She also sent me a term or two to search for to look into this, which I really appreciate. {Smile}

   Between reading to Mom and dinner, I had a long phone call with our former nurse. It took a while to catch up on each others' lives, since it had been a while. {Smile}

   In the evening, I got a phone call from Auntie Barbara. I tw as good to talk with her. We caught up, too. {Smile}

   I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was up when I went in today, and even answered a few times. He looked at the pictures, especially the ones of babies. I started my reading with scripture and thoughts about it first. Next, I continued her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2022. Then I remembered I hadn't read July 3rd's scripture and thoughts about it, so I read that next. Next, I finished _Picture Book: Babies_, which has facts about babies along with pictures of them. Not as much was left as I thought, so I backed up and read some I'd read recently. Mom seemed to enjoy it, especially since she got to look at more babies. After that, I read a story and two longer poems from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. I ended with the 3rd of July's story, "Peace and Quiet, and the Fourth of July's story, "Kind Katy," both from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}

   I did my head exercises between reading to Mom and the nurse's phone call. That left me tired enough, i didn't try more just yet. {SMILE}

   Over and after breakfast, I played Cross Stitch World while thinking about the recent medical appointments, and what I learned in them. Then I had lunch. Next, I played more Cross Stitch World, and read web fiction while doing more thinking. After that, I finished Wednesday's daily update. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming and did some paperwork and solo play. I started chatting with Pierogies during the solo play. Then we got together so he could show off new costumes. That took me up to time to read to Mom. {Smile}

   After dinner, I began writing this up. Then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming and began playing solo again. I'm just not the player I usually am, so I'm mainly playing with understanding friends. My new friend said hi. I said hi to Dennis. Dennis and I teamed up, and did a few missions together, and talked. I also chatted with Nox in the chat server. I went back to soloing after Dennis left for bed. I chatted with Mysty in the game for a while. I also chatted with Azurette in the game, but Azurette wasn't interested in playing with me when I'm as distracted as I have been. I chatted a little with Kitten in the game, too. Then I made notes in this to write from the next day. {Smile}