Good morning. Yes, it's still morning and a beautiful one, at that!! So, how is everyone doing today? I hope you're into a great weekend.
Like most of my weeks, this past one has been pretty busy. The first part of the week (and the week prior) were spend getting ready for a Calligraphy guild Study Group I hosted on Wednesday. It sounds pretty easy and I guess it is, but of course, I had tons of cleaning I needed to get done before I could have a group of ladies come for anything!! No, the house wasn't "dirty", but I'm not a meticulous housekeeper on a day to day basis, so when we're having people over, I do have to "spruce" up a bit. In addition to "extra" stuff, there's the usual dusting and doing floors that I might not do as often as I should?? And when there's company coming, I always do an extra good job!!
On top of the cleaning, there was food to prepare. Although we don't have a regular meal for our Study Groups, we do have substantial snacks, so I made 2 kinds of cookies, plus rolls for sandwiches, prepped and plated meat, cheese, veggies, etc. It all takes time.
Anyway, the Study Group turned out very well and everyone had a good time, so it was well worth my effort. Along with that, I was preparing for a calligraphy class that we were having on Zoom yesterday and for which I was the tech-host. That meant setting up the link for the class, plus a practice session with the instructor, along with tons of e-mails back and forth, mixed in with my cleaning/prep for the Study Group. The class went well, yesterday, also, which was a relief.
Needless to say, I was definitely happy to see yesterday afternoon roll around, bringing the end of the class, even though it was a good one, so my "duties" were over and I could relax a bit.
On Thursday of last week, they did progress testing at the PT session for my hand. The strength in my left hand is back to what it should be and is as good as my right hand now. Tuesday, I was released from PT with a home program, which consists of some exercises and instructions to use my stress ball to keep the strength in my hands. Friday, I had an appointment with my hand specialist. Since I was released from PT, I was also released from the hand specialist with instructions to call as needed. I can get injections in my hands every 3 months to control the arthritis, and though the injections are VERY painful, it's worth a few hours of pain because they work!!
So I'm dropped off the PT and the hand specialist - yay me!! The next thing I need to do is call the gastroenterologist to set up a colonoscopy. I had a polyp that was removed, grew back and removed a second time - it's time to make sure it hasn't returned. Uggggh!!
So that's my week and in the process, my weight is hanging right in there. Yesterday, I was up a pound, but that had to be fluid, because today, I'm back down to where I was last week. For the past 5 weeks, I've been within a tenth of a pound of the same weight. I'd really like to be going down, since I'm still walking most days and have been getting a lot of other exercise, but, at least I'm not going up!!
How are you doing? It's getting close to Christmas/ Holidays and a lot of people have multiple parties to go to. Gratefully, we don't so I don't have to worry about preparing not to overeat at them, but I hope those who do have figured out how they're going to avoid overeating and/or gaining extra weight that will need to come off after the New Year.
I look forward to hearing how your week has gone and how you might be planning to deal with those parties and all the tempting food.
~~ Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~