susandennis | Making my own path

Now that Myrna is for sure not coming back, I need to forge a new way of maneuvering my life here at Timber Ridge. And I don't have any obvious answers yet. Myrna and I did things together but not everything. I learned from her experiences without having to experience. And she kept me in touch with people and events that I would have never found or done on my own.

There is no Myrna Plan B. Bonny is a nice buddy but she and I have nearly zero in common and share nearly zero thoughts on food, behavior, politics. We cannot even find a night to eat dinner together because she hates the foods I like so makes her own dinner on those nights and vice versa. She is good about keeping me up to date on stuff. She came over yesterday to report the latest Myrna kids drama and opened my door with 'are you hiding in here?!' And she can at least see and hear and get around. She's 84.

Hazel's wonderful but blind and tied to John and not really willing to do much of anything without him nor he her. Jim across the hall is nice and always good for a short chat and really weird. He gets all of his meals to go and eats in his apartment.

Noelle is great in short spurts only and is not too credible. Her view of the world and events and things people tell her is vastly different than anyone else's on earth.

Martha's way too busy for a friend and has her husband, Richard, if the needs company.

So I need to keep looking OR learn how to fill in the blanks on my own. Happily all is fine every day so this is more of a long term project.

I did go to physical therapy today and it was good. I learned that I'm not going to learn an exercise or set of exercises to do when the pain hits. So that's valuable info. Mainly there is just a raft of exercises to do every day that he just keeps piling on to. I think I have enough now. I have one more session scheduled but I think I'm going to cancel. I can figure this out on my own. And I'm a little afraid of going without knowing for sure what it's costing me.

I got one of the two major tax docs I've been waiting for. The other should land soon and then I'll be able to take everything to the CPA. I think I'll spend some time today making sure all I have to do is print that one out when it comes in and then deliver the package.

Today is house cleaning day so I'll go puzzle while she cleans.