Thursday Afternoon

Kept waiting and waiting for the physical therapy people to call me after my doctor appt on the 9th when I was told they'd be in touch.  Finally got discouraged at hearing nothing so emailed the doctor again and she gave me their number, telling me they should have contacted me before this. So I called.  Much to my dismay, however, the closest appt is three weeks off.  Sigh.....  I probably should have checked out physical therapy last JULY when this arm first started giving me grief but I figured the pain would subside if I ignored it.  Ha!  Silly me!  So now I'll continue with my own physical exercises that I've been doing and continue taking ibuprofen (kidneys be damned!) and wait patiently.  Will definitely be smoking my little pot vape stick when necessary too.  Hopefully, the physical therapist can determine if p/t is what I need or if an orthopedic doctor is needed.  I'm betting that will be weeks away to wait too. Such is our medical world today. And not much I can do about that.

I talked to my cousin in KY today and oddly, she's been suffering with her left arm about as long as I have.  Odd.  And hers (like mine) get worse when she goes to bed.  She also had a shoulder x-ray but like me, her shoulder doesn't hurt. Just the upper arm. She's miserable and can't do anything.  A lot worse off than me because I can still clean house and drive.  She had a stroke a few months back so her activities (including driving) are diminished big time.  I wish we lived closer so I could help her more.

I pushed myself to finish a small quilt today.  Probably should have added borders and made it bigger but I wasn't in the mood and putting batting and backing on quilts takes more space and more energy than I have.  It's a pretty little thing.

Jenni dropped off some chicken pot pie that she had left over so I don't have to cook tonight. Am thinking I might make a quick apple pie, though. A woman gave me a quart jar of apple pie mixture she had canned.  Course if I'm going to do that, I'd best get off this computer and hop to it before I talk myself out of it.

Nothing on my calendar for the rest of the month. I'll keep my porch light off on Halloween just in case some kids might come around trick or treating. If I had any candy in the house, I'd only eat it myself.

Tomorrow I intend to work on my computer and get some picture files in order. A job I always enjoy doing. Also need to forget all the projects on my agenda and just sit and read my book.  Maddie sent a couple of pictures to my phone the other day. She had gone to Idaho with her college track team. She's getting prettier every day.

And that's about all I have for now.  Sure am enjoying the nice October weather (although I'm not making any effort to get out in it)  ha ha

Well, good for me. I got up and made a pie!