NO Celery, PT and Insurance

• The most exciting thing I did yesterday was that I went to two stores! I went first to the grocery store and, yes, I know you remember I went a week ago! I am trying to go once a week with a list so I don’t have twenty bags to get from the back of my car into the kitchen. At the top of this list was CELERY!!!! Yes, in capitals and with many exclamation points. So, you know what I forgot, right? {This probably had something to do with the fact that I left the list in the car! } I miss Fred for many reasons and not the least is that the grocery lists he made for me always started at fruit and veg at the front of the store and went all round the store in order. The only ones he got wrong were jams and jellies. They got moved from the aisle where they were when he was doing the shopping and put with the bread and peanut butters but I had no problem with that because to me it is logical to find them beside the bread!
• The other store I went to was the drug store which, unlike the drug store I patronized in Vermont, is not "just up the road" and within in walking distance. I have got my medication dates ordered that I can buy three months of all medications in one fell swoop. In terms of money, it is a bit of a shock to have to cough up over $50, but it does cover everything I take for three months. Well, except for the prescription eye drops for which the insurance people insist I get only one month’s supply at a time! There is probably some secret and forbidden use of this eye drop stuff stuff of which I know nothing.
• When I moved here from Vermont, I had to reapply for supplemental insurance on top of the Medicare because the supplemental insurance I had didn’t cover the area in which I was now living. Well, I did all this stuff by phone and the young lady* who was doing this remarked casually that what I would be paying now would be less than what I was paying in Vermont. I said, "Less is always good!" but didn’t ask how much less. You can imagine my surprise when it turned out that what I now pay is $15 dollars a month To put this in context, in Vermont I had very little change from $70 per month….
• This morning before I got up I did the exercises I can do lying down. Then I got up, went to the bathroom, came back and did three more different exercises standing up. I am still not taking for granted the fact that I can stand in the kitchen 20 minutes before having to sit down. While I am on the subject of PT, Jill had me lying on my stomach and moving my leg back from the knee towards my butt. Well, I could move the right leg with no problem but when it came to the left, the weak one, it was as if I had very little control of it! It was wobbling around and felt weird, actually. Eventually and with a lot of mental effort, I got it doing what I wanted it to be doing… What was also interesting was that when I did that this morning, although I still had to concentrate, I got it under control much more easily than the first time.

* Because I am Officially Old, I find myself referring to most people I talk to on the phone as "young lady" or "young man!"