Tuesday, December 30: Mike’s & Left Shoulder

After hitting the hay very late last night, I got up, decided I would get dressed brush my teeth and runoff to the convenience store and buy a 

sandwich and egg and cheese sandwich on it English muffin. I’ll put on my warmest sweater and headed on out. Boy oh boy, it was frigid outside. I got my sandwich went to Mike’s ate it and then did 


E little around the house and then ran off to my 10:15 AM massage appointment. It was moved back to 10:30 AM and I then went to the appointment. Indeed the appointment did give me some much much-needed 

relief from the extreme muscle stiffness that I’m experiencing in my left shoulder. During the day today, I sent messages to Stillman, Dr. Nala and the guy who did the EMG test. I also sent the Massage

observations from Nick to each one of them. I paid an overdue.  During the day today, I sent messages to Stillman, Dr. Nala and the guy who did the EMG test. I also sent the Massage observations from Nick

to each one of them. I paid an overdue medical bill and tried to pay my membership fee to Sketch Club, but couldn’t because of faulty website. On the way back to my massage I decided to go to the New Balance 

store and replace my sneakers. Turns out I haven’t bought a pair of sneakers since October 2024 over a year ago. I got a really good rate of 100 bucks for the shoes because the sales woman announced 

the employee price of the shoes and I set up the “the cats out of the bag.“ And she agreed to give me the that price that was very nice of her. Usually, those shoes

are 160 bucks. Anyway, I then went to Fabio‘s and got a replacement bowl since Mike broke the bowl. I always use to eat lunch. Tony came over and Mike did a few exercises and Mike told Tony about

the CPAP cord that he spilled water on in started, belching out black smoky ruined the cord and the charging box it comes with the cord. It was very funky. I then finished off three applications and I’m going to 

print out his Social Security card and drivers license for each of the sub size housing appointment and I’m gonna pick up an application 

tomorrow from the John Fox Towers, which is in Center City somewhere. I skipped decided to skip yoga cause I knew I wasn’t in any 

shape to do that. I’m gonna take another Epson salt bath it’s now 4:23 PM frigid Tuesday. I took the bath, and it felt quite good and relaxing. Anyhow, I then took a little nap and that felt quite good. 



That’s for sure. Mary came back from class and said the class is very crowded and the room was pretty warm. We then went to the meeting at 22nd and Locust or 22nd spruce and then walked back to Royal Indian and ordered Indian food came back. Had a 

good conversation about families and stuff. We then went and watched a couple episodes of Law and order and they enjoyed our Indian food. My shoulder really started acting up, but I did manage to go to bed pretty late, but I did manage to go to bed. 

Monday, December 29: Dr Stillman, Shoulder Rain ☔️ & Stuff

Happy cloudy Monday, my friends out there in the Internet. Go look up morning with   a sore shoulder. I ate breakfast and then headed out to the Market Frankford line. I’m glad I put an extra money in the card 



cause I had to run out of money on my card yesterday. Anyway, I got the Mike’s around 9️⃣ , which seems to be the only time I can end up getting it there. Anyhow, the young lady who does 

the caregiving did not go downstairs to the trash area because Mike wasn’t sure if she could handle doing that so there are a lot of boxes here a 

couple things I ordered but mostly stuff Mike ordered so I brought all the boxes down. I then had an early lunch because I had a last-minute doctors 

appointment set up with Dr. Stillman at 12:15 PM. I was very delighted that he was able to see me. He’s only around for two days this week. Anyhow, I went 

down there and he took a look at my back and immediately wanted to talk to Dr. Nala, who of course didn’t answer because Dr don’t answer 




directly even to other doctors believe it or not. It just went to voicemail, but he said he would really make every effort to get a hold of Dr. Nala 

and the Doctor Who did the electronic test to verify that I had Parsonage Turner syndrome. I then walked home thankfully it didn’t rain on the 

way home like it rained on the way there. I was dried up by the time. I got the Mike’s. I then did a little more sweeping talk to Mary about getting

new yoga shorts and confirm that I ain’t doing any yoga today and letting my back rest. I do have a massage tomorrow and we’ll see

how that helps. Yeah, I talked to Marion. It’s really unrealistic that I would do yoga today. I would just be aggravating. It’s already aggravating me. Anyhow, I’m gonna work till 4 o’clock approximately


a little after and get my full eight hours in. I did do my timesheet from Christmas when I forgot to sign out. I’ve been good about signing out because the whole signing out with signatures as a pain in 

the butt. Suppose that I’m going to get a bonus for my one year anniversary we’ll see what kind of bonuses is. I’m gonna go to Mary and do an 



Epson salt bath, which should make me feel a little better. Well, I walked out from Mike’s around 4:11 PM and low and behold the wind is gusting. The skies are clearing out. The clouds are swiftly 



moving away. It’s also much colder the high today was 53°. It’s now approximately 40° out. Well, I went back to the Dorchester and immediately got myself an Epson salt bath, which felt really good. Also talked to Donna and Larry. Mary got home. Said it was a good class. I’m heading to the MONDAY Night Beginners meeting. The temperature is dropped 8° since my first got to Mary’s. It’s also a lot windier.