Free!

 I received permission to stop wearing my neck brace. I'm free! I also asked about the TED (compression) hose that the hospital discharge instructions said to wear for 4 weeks. They were feeling hot now that the weather has heated up. The doctor said as long as I was walking around, I didn't need to continue with them.  

I have some pain and stiffness around my shoulder blades and my trapezius muscles, but I start physical therapy tomorrow and hope those will soon be better. I had a good night of sleep last night. So nice not to have plastic poking into my chest, back, and face.

It was a different medical visit. The information board said that my doctor was running about 15 minutes behind. About 5 minutes before my 11 a.m. appointment time all but emergency lights went out in the building. By the time I saw Dr. Smith it was 12 noon. Of course all of the computers went down. The staff were accessing chart information via their cell phones. The examination room where I was eventually escorted had a big window which helped with seeing the sutures that needed to be removed. They took a couple of X-rays when I first arrived around 10:45. I don't know that they were able to access those digitally. Several people in the waiting lobby were told that no X-rays could be taken and rescheduled. I was called later in the afternoon to schedule my next appointment which is July 27th in Warsaw. 

When we left the Lutheran campus, we planned to head to Jefferson Point to Biaggi's restaurant. It took us about twice the usual time to get there because of all the traffic signals out along Jefferson Boulevard. We could see most of the businesses had no lights on so we knew the outage was widespread. Fortunately, a mile or so before our destination, we had working traffic signals and were glad to eat a late lunch at 1 p.m. 

WANE news station had a story about the 5,000 plus power customers who had no electricity because of a substation incident. They said the power resumed about 2 p.m. 

I stopped at Trader Joe's about a block from the restaurant. I bought some beef lunchmeat, white cheddar cheese, and a few bunches of flowers to throw together in a vase.

My husband visited a hobby store in a strip mall across from Jefferson Point. He found what he needed. We got home after 3 p.m. It was a long day since we left at 9:50 a.m.