Tuesday, March 24: Funky Sleep. Mike, Rehab & Yoga

Good morning ladies and gents. It’s a cold sunny day here in Philadelphia with a low this morning was 38 when I rested myself out of bed ate some breakfast had some coffee and then went to my psychiatrist appointment. It’s the last appointment. I’ll be seeing her because she’s already moved to Las Vegas with her husband and a kid. She didn’t like the cold weather in the East Coast. So I’ve one more virtual appointment with her and then off to a new person. After that I wobble down to Mike’s place and had lunch and killed time and had a super coffee. It’s now 1:17 PM. I’ve tried calling Mike twice and he has not answered the phone. This ought to be interesting about his release from the hospital. I also finally got a hold of DM Medical so I would get paid for the phone call so that was good. So while I’m sitting in Rehab, I may be getting a call from Mike saying “I’m getting out of the hospital.“ Good times really!

Monday, March 23: Mike @ Hospital Cloudy & Yoga

Good day everybody last night I didn’t sleep all that great but I got to sleep until 10 o’clock before I decided to get up my call just I was getting up and said he’s not being released from the hospital today because he had a fibrillation moment where his heart rate to 130 something beats per minute so they kept them in there putting potassium in them as well as a diuretic. They’re loading them up with potassium chloride to make up the fact he lost a lot of potassium during his whole treatment regimen. Ran into a guy at the hospital named Christopher Robin who used to be a yoga instructor at Hot Yoga Philly then he opened up his new yoga studio. It was hard to stay in business so he became a Penn nurse and he’s a nice guy a little high strung  and he knows byron and Chris Fluck, which I found very interesting. I could hear the song “it’s a small world after all“ in my head. I then fortunately caught the 40 bus back to Mike’s to get me in time to talk to Larry who had called and he says he’s going on a cruise that starts in Barcelona Spain and goes to Africa. It’s a nine day cruise. Larry does love his cruise is that that’s for sure. 3:35 PM I’ll be going back to Yoga for the 4 o’clock byron class and hopefully some samosas. I was not able to eat them last Monday cause I was still recovering from my tooth extraction. I signed up for byron‘s class and when I arrived at the studio, they had two samosas left so I got the last two that they had so that was a good way to start. The class. Class was good. It was warm, but not nearly as warm as yesterday, which was smoking hot. And then just took my sweet time getting dressed and hanging out with Mary that was cool. 

Sunday, March 22: Breakfast, Alaska trip planning, & Yoga

We Today we decided to get up around 11 AM and get going so we could have breakfast and chill out and and go over Alaska itinerary. Went through a bunch of hotels often on in Fairbanks Alaska. We also ordered some delicious breakfast. I had my breakfast burritos I always have. Well, we ended up finding a place there’s $108 a month. It’s near a restaurant right above a restaurant. We decided to call the place directly. The guy was very nice and it had good reviews so we called him and we we decided to go for it we asked them to get us the furthest place from the bar and he said he would and he took our names down and sent us a informal email. This place is pretty wild and it looks like true Alaska place. They serve all kinds of seafood, such as salmon at this restaurant. So we’re gonna stay four nights there. Soon after we left the heart of catering and went back to Mary’s and just relaxed for a little while, which was nice. It was nice to relax before a yoga class and not just have a half hour. We had an hour and a half. Well, we relaxed and then we went to Kaitlyn‘s 4 o’clock class and it was packed and it was hot as anything. Both of us left feeling better, but also we were very tired as well. We went back and took a little bit of a nap and then we ordered some Indian and that made her stomach feel a lot better than it had all day. I give her credit. She went to yoga class on an upset stomach that’s that takes a lot of internal strength to do that. 

Saturday, March 21: Massage, Mike’s Appt. & Yoga

After sleeping till about 9:15 AM, it’s time to get up and get a massage of my hamstring and other muscles in near my leg and gluteus maximus and my lower back. So I wobbled over downtown to 1518 Walnut St. It was gloriously sunny this morning it was a little cool, but it was very bright and sunny for the second day of spring. I went to the massage session. Oh my God I don’t know how sports athletes do what they do cause my hamstrings were just like tight as hell. That’s all I can say. It was a good session, but there were some parts that were so tight. Unbelievable. I talked to Mary and she wanted some coffee so I went to the Montreal spread baker bakery, and got some coffee for both of us and came back to her place within went hotel shopping in Anchorage and after about two hours, we found a place to stay that was reasonably priced for Alaska standards. Alaska is a very expensive place to go. Everything’s jacked up in the summer. I guess because they can’t do anything in the winter because it’s half of. It’s in the Arctic Circle. We then went to Mike’s and Mary help me make his bed. Was a lot easier having her around do it cause I was frustrated. And then picked up some garbage and and then we walked over to byron’s 4 o’clock class. That was a good class. It was on the third floor. Some of his yoga student students were there as well. It’s now 6:17 PM. . I left my phone in the Yoga studio unfortunately byron was there to answer the phone. I was able to get my phone. Next, we decided to go to Trader Joe’s and get these bowls and my favorite is the Cuban style bowl. We bought about nine or 10 of them so it’ll be stocked. It looks like there’s a special Indian holiday so the Indian stores might be closed often on this coming week. Anyhow, we discussed Alaska and watched Law and order and a movie called insomnia which takes place in Alaska. It has Al Pacino and Heather Swank  in it. It was made in 2002 which is over 20 years ago, which is interesting. Anyhow, we’re slowly making plans for the last step. There’s a lot involved with it.