Wednesday, March 11: 14 Years Sober! Extraction Diet🙄

Hello, it’s now 12:46 PM. I’ve passed the first 24 hours of recovery From the extraction. Yeah, I’ve been living on a diet of water, protein, yogurt, and protein shakes. Best put it this way I woke up pretty tired this morning, but I made it down to Mike’s drank some water since well anyway my body was telling me the water wasn’t I needed to drink more water. So I got to Mike’s & and did a little bit of cleanup while I was there. I wrote to Amanda that I’ll be away for a while in the middle of the summer from June 9 to July 13. The Alaska trip plus a week at the shore with the Crowe family. I just found out about that last night when I talked to Alice. I am one tired mofo for sure. Anyhow, Maryann and I decided that I would just go to Yin and skip full-blown yoga today which isn’t not is not a bad idea considering how tired I am.

Tuesday, March 10: 6:30 AM Yoga, extraction 🦷, Rehab & Choir

Good day America today is my version of living in America. Mary and I got up at 5:45 AM for 6:30 AM 90 minute class with Dan. It was a good growing class for sure. I’m heading to Mike’s and then running back for a 930 appointment with Colman & Turner and then at 10:15 extraction with bone graft. I also have Rehab, Work, Choir, today. At some point I’m gonna go to Mary’s and take a nap hopefully anyway, I got the Mike’s and he had the lights low and he was feeling depressed because of his life situation. God didn’t do any dishes, but Mike cleaned up on his own and he had two bags of trash, cleaned up the messy sink cleaned out his containers, wink wink and headed left his place at 9:15 to go to my 930 appointment with Dr. Turner to add another tooth to my lower A then I’m going for an extraction God I’m already tired. Anyway, I went to Dr. Turner and at 9:30 didn’t take very long. I then went to the extraction and holy crap I was seen pretty quickly. I then I’ll talk to him nor down and oh man he was right to the point and after I signed all these things saying all the things that could happen he went right in there put three shots of Novacaine and I talked about my parsonage Turner syndrome and then he went right in there and got rid of the tooth and put in the animal bone stuff. I did not even feel the tooth being yanked out, which was very weird. Anyhow, I left there told Nati eat any real solid food for the day. Anyhow, after the extraction, I wobbled down to Mike’s place and Mike had a prescription so I took advantage at fact and decided to go to Mary’s. Get my painkiller meds and take a nap. I decided to take a half hour nap. Mary is running off to her appointment and I just lied down I was sort of half asleep like the soreness is just enough to keep me half awake. I then went back down to CVS picked up my script and my script. I went down to Mike’s. Mike was disappointed. I forgot the ice cream but I did get them yogurt and that seemed to make him happy enough. Next step was to catch the bus to Rehab at McGee. That’s what I decided to do and it went pretty smoothly, except the bus had a detour, which was confusing. I went to Rehab with my machine in hand, and will it seem to appreciate me having the electronic machine, and it went pretty well. I then caught the bus back and again another wacky detour and I got back to Mike’s around 3:10 PM hung out at Mike’s till about 3:50 PM and then went back to Mary’s immediately said hi and wanted to go to sleep. There’d be no way I would’ve gone to yoga at 4 PM oh no! After I napped for about two hours, it was time for me to get up at 6:30 PM and go to choir practice and I went to choir practice. It was beautiful walk. It was 75° and mild. As someone sat on TikTok, it was San Diego weather. He said that we have 80 days a year that are nice like this that’s 80 out of 365. I’m surprised it’s even that high. Anyway, Choir practice is pretty good. I almost forgot my headphones got them. Mary Lou and I went up during breaking. Explored the top of the church and she explained her hip issues and I explained Parson Turner syndrome and Yoga was discussed as well. It’s 9:45 PM we got out 15 minutes early 

Monday, March 9: EMG test, Alaska Planning & Yoga

Well, OMG today is time for my EMG test at Jefferson at 25 S. 9th St. I got up and turned off my alarm twice. The second time I looked at 
Mary’s clock and thought I had plenty of time to sleep and then I got confused and realized it was 7:12 PM not 6:12 AM. You know that daylightsavings time thing. It’s great that our phones automatically changed the time. Anyhow, I caught the 17 bus with plenty of time after I grabbed a banana in my super coffee that I had. That bus was really crowded when he first got on. I arrived at 7:45 AM got checked in. I then had a nurse take my vitals and then I saw the resident who works under Dr. Peterson. So rightnow it’s 8:36 AM I’m still waiting for the doctor to come by. It was a good thing. I took the day off cause this test probably will take another hour till at least 9:30 AM. Well, I guessed pretty closely. It didn’t really end until 9:45 AM. I came out and it’s still very cool outside. I technically could’veworn a winter coat.. well, after I walked up to one street I caught the bus and went to the bank and then just chilled out right now square for a moment, are you trying to get a hold of my Dennis and Thomas over at Cozumel? The final result is that I’m gonna get my extraction and bone graft done here and then the plan is to call Thomas and schedule something in September or October that’s the plan as I see it right now. 
Mary and I then went to Barnes & Noble got a book about Alaska. In the meantime, I don’t see my Alaska Airlines flight on my American Airlines app. I know I didn’t sign through The Alaska Airlines app because it doesn’t work. So I called Alaska Airlines and it’s now 1:46 PM and they have not even calledback yet. I’m supposedly on this list for a callback. Mary was off her bill with the Dorchester and that is that for now. Meanwhile, in Iran 🇮🇷 they just selected their new leader who’s just his hard-core and hard line is the previous dude. They’re not backing down anytime soon. The other is well, I got a hold of Alaska Airlinesand they settled out my flights. It took a while, but they gave me a copy of the flights from San Diego to Alaska. Also, I got a new password login for Alaska Airlines. The whole flight is under Alaska Airlines not American Airlines it took an hour to resolve that Mary also got a hold of the

same lady and took care of her login issues. It sounds 3:42 PM heading into byron at 4 o’clock 75 minute class. What class is pretty good today I mustsay I got some advice about just standing on my foot instead of completing one of the poses just to get practice balancing. Anyhow, we hung out at the studio for a while and then and then we found out that the Sherman’s shoe store that’s on the first floor is moving out to the suburbs and it might be a vegetarian restaurant not sure though.

Sunday, March 8: Millville to Fortescue back to Philly

After a nice sleep, we woke up at the quality Inn in Millville and went out to the Millville Queen diner where we had a scrumptious breakfast. I had 3️⃣ very thick pancakes and scramble and Mayor had a combo of eggs, bacon and sausage. Anyhow, we out down on that and we were very stuffed.
We then took a 30 minute drive to Fortescue New Jersey. Did your drive went smoothly and it was very foggy there. Looked like they had just had a torrential downpour when we arrived. All the roads are full of potholes and we just looked around. It took some interesting pictures there. They had a foggy mysterious look about it. There were trailers and funky houses for sale, including one house that was built upon or above a garage. We saw Higby‘s Marina, where the only store in town was closed. But the bait shop was still open, but nothingelse was. That’s how much fishing they are into. After a while, we thought about going to Mauricetown, but it was a little bit too much to do and to get back to class on time so we decided we’d head out. They took took us to a route that made us avoid Millville and I think that workedout for the best. It was very scenic. The fog lifted as soon as we left for scoop. We made pretty good time there wasn’t none of that jamming until we got close to 30th St., Station. We then dropped off the car and then realized we didn’t put any gas in so they’re gonna screw me on the gas but whatcan you say? We just needed to get the car parked. Well, once you get to 30th St. we have to wait 10 minutes for the Uber to come it was I guess it’s very busy for them. He did pick us up. He was very nice. We got back to Mary’s place around 3:18 PM which gave us just enough time to get packed and ready to go to Katelynn’s 4 o’clock 90 minute hot yoga class. This room was stuffed there was 38 total people in the small room on the third floor. We were like 6 inches 
apart math to Matt with three full rows. It was pretty intense. The room was also very very hot as well. Well, we got out a little after six hopefully it didn’t mess up Kaitlyn too much but we tried to get out as soon as possible. It was very crowded. Anyhow when we left, it was really nice to 
see all kinds of people out right now square. Also, we saw a beautiful sunset as we were going shopping for condiments for our veggie burgers. Oh my God, the sun was blazingly beautiful. Anyhow, we watched an episode of Law and order and had some delicious veggie burgers and it was then time to crash since I’m getting up early for my EMG appointment. This coming week gonna be a very busy week between all the appointments plus the tooth extraction, which is really going to be a fucking trip. I’m also gonna get up early Tuesday morning because I’m not gonna do yoga right after an extraction. Now the extraction plus bone graft stuff was gonna be about $5000 but I withheld that it extraction only at this time.