Wednesday June 4: PT Appt. Pride Concert 😮

Well, I slept through the night on the easy chair which is two nights in a row. I slept without interruption, so that’s some room for encouragement. I had to get up and get moving because I had to 

sign in for Mike and then run over to good Shepherd PT at 18th and Lombard and be there by 8:45 AM. So I managed to accomplish both of those things. The physical therapist saw me about 9:10 AM after 

finishing up with someone else. She asked some questions and help me do some movement. The conclusion was I have some degenerative thing in my neck and 
I have 

weakened muscle muscles on the right side in which my left side is compensating for. She stated that the MRI probably wouldn’t show anything. She gave
me three exercise to do 3 to 4. 

times a day They’re not difficult, but I have to do them.In other words, this is gonna be a long ongoing thing for a long time. I have a feeling I didn’t know I was. My muscles were weakened on the side. I never felt

 that before. Speaking of the MRI, the insurance company has informally approved
it yet so I’ve been back-and-forth with the doctor/Jefferson. Probably I will 
not be going to the MRI tomorrow night as previously scheduled I reported to the choir rehearsal at the Kimmel Center at 1:30 PM 
and we’re in the midst of going up to the main 

section to stand up and sing. It’s now 2:35 PM. We sang in the basement
 and then we moved up to the orchestra level. We are rehearsing with the
 orchestra at this time. I think Wes’s going to be showing up to the pride concert, but I’m not absolutely

 sure. Yeah, running through all the songs for the Orchestra. We are singing just  4️⃣ songs. After the

 rehearsal I ended up just talking on the phone with Donna and hang out in South

Broad Street not knowing what to do with myself really so I started to stay close to Mike so I could get 

something to drink eventually that’s what I did. Mike’s little frustrated with this whole oxygen tank debacle, had to deal with where they pushed these heavy duty oxygen

 tanks on them. I’m not in pain, but my whole upper side of my body feels damaged. Thank God, the 
pain isn’t shooting, but this thing ain’t going to go away real quick and I’ve already 

dealt with it for a full month as it is pain in my ass. It’s 6:25 PM and we’re down in the practice room downstairs everybody’s wearing red and green 

practically with a few oranges and yellows throw in there for a good measure. My 

shoulder left shoulder is ever present in my thoughts. So it’ll   be Mary and I going To eat. I’m really tired,

 but I guess I’m gonna feel this way for the foreseeable future I reckon. Anyhow, I 

just decided to bring all the stuff I had and stuff in my pocket 

and I brought my baseball cap because I don’t think I wanna deal with going to the

dressing room. I don’t know. I should’ve left it at Mike’s anyhow I’m

 very hungry. I’m very tired, but the show must go on. I got to see Mary sitting six rows back in the front. And I got the wave at her and stuff. It was pretty cool. I must say  She gave me an idea of seeing

 Linda for a special Yoga class to get myself back into it and help me out mentally. But the concert came off without a hitch Martha graham cracker a drag 
celebrity of Philadelphia came out and they announced the funding cuts from the NEA and there was a round of booze as deserved. It went fine and Mary and I are gonna go eat. We took a walk & went to 



Royal and picked up food and we picked up iced tea and came back and watched two episodes of Law and order

Wednesday November 15: Potatoes are Microwavable!

Well today I woke up very tired. I just didn’t wanna woke up but 

I forced myself up and had my normal breakfast and I was running pretty late but 

fortunately I was able to catch the bus 15th and market 
Street which is very helpful. I caught the four bus again right on time. Otherwise I’ve been very very late. Today I laughed like I haven’t laughed in years. Mike was ordering from 

Instacart and one of the things he ordered featured was a potato that had a feature of that

 you could actually microwave the potato and I just thought that 

was the funniest thing in the world earlier, I saw a skit from The Daily Show. The skit  was w/ Leslie Jones helping families get by on Thanksgiving. When people made controversy 
political statement, she would shut them up. It was a riot. I’m still working on prior authorization for my 
new meds. Emailing 

didn’t work so I just finally called and this one guy named Jose seem to be on it so he called 

me and they successfully put it in and then he’s gonna call me back tomorrow
he seems to be on top of his game. Anyhow, now it’s 331 I’m hoping to & I hope to get  the 32  buse on time otherwise they 

will have to take the Broad Street Line or Uber it and I really don’t want to blow over w&&8 pmoney right before Thanksgiving if I can help it. Well, I caught the 27 bus because the 32 wasn’t

 going to be on time so I took the 27 to 50 of JFK and five minutes later 32 came and I’m gonna get the Sharon’s five minutes late she’s 
OK and that’s good 

it’s my Reiki treatment isn’t until 6:00 PM. Well, Sharon and I had a nice time. She gave me a nice haircut. I got to meet her new cat and her cute Chihuahua. I did 

truly have a nice time. We talked and did a little catch up and helped her with bringing stuff down the basement. I’ve been walked to Corinthian Street got my Reiki session

 completed. It was very soothing and felt pretty good afterwards. After that I had to 

take Uber down to South Philly because that would take 20 

minutes and public transit would’ve taken 45 so I had really no choice. 

I got there and just slipped in the back and did my rehearsal with the base section.after that, I took the 45 bus to the L and got home and was really hungry and chow down on some pasta. That was very tasty.