Still cold out there

 

To be specific, the high for the day was 12.  Fahrenheit.  

This week's crock meal:

4 or 5 peeled and sliced russet potatoes

Half an onion, diced

1 Green Bell pepper, chopped

1/2 pint baby bella mushrooms, sliced

Pre-cooked smoked chicken breast tenders (whatever I had left in the bag, these came frozen.  I didn't bother to thaw them.)

1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup

Layer the ingredients into your crock pot.  Cover, set to high for a couple of hours, then turn to low and let it continue until dinner time.  Enjoy.

The eye doctor adventure

Sheesh, they are back to "normal", meaning once I get there, I'm at their office for nearly two hours.  Sometime in the first hour, they do the visual field test.  Then you wait.  After a while, they take you for retinal photos, move to an exam room, where the tech takes down my medication list, and measures the eye pressures.  Back to the waiting area where you TRY to keep social distance behind your masks (lots of other grey-hairs like myself are the other waiting patients... we keep our own counsel and stay safe inside our masks).  

Finally, back to an exam room, where I wait in the chair, peering at the computer screen that has all my tests displayed but it's just far enough away that I'd have to get out of my chair to actually read what it says... and I don't want to get caught being snoopy while they have left me alone, and could come back at any moment.

The doctor eventually shows up with two youngsters in tow, the gal who'd done my pressures and retinal photos.  He pronounces me stable, keep the same eye drops, see my optometrist at 6 and 12 months out, and I don't need to come back to him until 18 months.  Yay!  

It's a lesson in patience, right?  

Tomorrow's adventure:  fasting blood work.  

I've already started the fast.  After said blood draw, I get to find out what Medicare wants to know or wants me to know this year.  Next week I get to see my real doctor.

These are the tests our healthy habits are working up to, right? 

End of day pep talk:

Let's see if I can remember my Dr. Seuss:  "Today is gone.  Today was fun.  Tomorrow is another one.  Every day from here to there, funny things are everywhere."  No clue if that's right or not... wonder if there's some gadget that will look it up for me...

Ah-hah!  GoodReads quotes at least part of it:

“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!”

― Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

And Schmoop quotes had the earlier part:

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

This line is from the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss (1960).

Back to me:  

OK, then, I stand corrected.  But the sentiment is the same:  let today go, be satisfied that whatever you did toward your health and well being was enough.  It was what you needed it to be.  Now rest well, you've earned it!

Life is Good.  Spark on!