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More same ol' same ol'
Staying home for the most part - PT twice a week, grocery store once a week. A bonus trip to town for a blood drive on Wednesday.
I have a lovely bruise from the Red Cross today -- usually I don't bruise, but she had to reposition the needle about halfway through (stuck it in too far), and there was some leakage when she did that. She said at the time that there was a lovely hematoma, and she wasn't wrong. Yellow with black spots now, and it will fade over the next week or so.
The giant crocuses in the various gardens are blooming (they bloom after the regular crocuses), as are the windflowers. The early bulbs I put in next to the rill have popped up, and the reticulated irises back there are blooming - a week behind the other patches, but that's probably because it's a new planting. The daffodil buds are showing yellow, although they haven't started to droop yet. I pulled grass out of the front flowerbeds, and picked up branches from last weekend's wind. The chipmunks have been digging in the rill, so J is trying to figure out the best way to prevent or at least limit it. At this point, he's thinking that we build the rill base in sand & gravel and then put a layer of concrete on it, tying the retaining block walls to the concrete so there's no place for varmints to get in. Yesterday we pulled the rocks out, and I guess he's planning on playing around out there this weekend.
PT on Tuesday was more of the same as I'd been getting, but today's was very different -- today they worked on the knots in the back of the arm & in the armpit, rather than the shoulder. He found lots of (very painful) knots to work out, and gave me some very specific exercises. And taped it up, in the hope of getting (and keeping!)the shoulder joint in the correct position.
Grocer still out of things - rice, canned meat, pasta, frozen chicken is what I noticed. Lots of scant shelves of things I wasn't looking for, as well. I was able to get most of my grocery list, though. Next week I need to buy birdseed. I bought cat food early in March, so we're good on that for a while. Which is good, because the feed store where we usually buy it isn't open right now. I think Menard's carries it, so I should be able to get more if we run out before things reopen.
Staying home for the most part - PT twice a week, grocery store once a week. A bonus trip to town for a blood drive on Wednesday.
I have a lovely bruise from the Red Cross today -- usually I don't bruise, but she had to reposition the needle about halfway through (stuck it in too far), and there was some leakage when she did that. She said at the time that there was a lovely hematoma, and she wasn't wrong. Yellow with black spots now, and it will fade over the next week or so.
The giant crocuses in the various gardens are blooming (they bloom after the regular crocuses), as are the windflowers. The early bulbs I put in next to the rill have popped up, and the reticulated irises back there are blooming - a week behind the other patches, but that's probably because it's a new planting. The daffodil buds are showing yellow, although they haven't started to droop yet. I pulled grass out of the front flowerbeds, and picked up branches from last weekend's wind. The chipmunks have been digging in the rill, so J is trying to figure out the best way to prevent or at least limit it. At this point, he's thinking that we build the rill base in sand & gravel and then put a layer of concrete on it, tying the retaining block walls to the concrete so there's no place for varmints to get in. Yesterday we pulled the rocks out, and I guess he's planning on playing around out there this weekend.
PT on Tuesday was more of the same as I'd been getting, but today's was very different -- today they worked on the knots in the back of the arm & in the armpit, rather than the shoulder. He found lots of (very painful) knots to work out, and gave me some very specific exercises. And taped it up, in the hope of getting (and keeping!)the shoulder joint in the correct position.
Grocer still out of things - rice, canned meat, pasta, frozen chicken is what I noticed. Lots of scant shelves of things I wasn't looking for, as well. I was able to get most of my grocery list, though. Next week I need to buy birdseed. I bought cat food early in March, so we're good on that for a while. Which is good, because the feed store where we usually buy it isn't open right now. I think Menard's carries it, so I should be able to get more if we run out before things reopen.
