2023 Life Logs, Day 265: Happy 4th Birthday to Shadow
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Weather: Yet Another Beautiful Day; High 72, Low 55 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA
Yeah! Today was a one meeting day, but I did have one more appointment, a visit to my chiropractor. I called his office early this morning begging for an appointment today. My back is giving me fits making it difficult to sleep or do anything else. The chiropractor tried to help but said there was very little he can do at this point. He suggests I go back to the pain management doctor and see if there is anything else he can do to help control the muscle spasms. He also recommended that I see my neurosurgeon again. All the neurosurgeon can do is recommend surgery, so I am hoping for some other miracle.
I spent the time between the chiropractor visit and the Newcomers-Encore Field Trip group meeting preparing for the meeting. Christina Brodie and I are the co-chairs, so I had to lead part of the meeting. We had a number of new people attending and came up with great list of field trips for this year.
Today was Shadow’s 4th birthday.
Actually, yesterday was his birthday, but as I explained in last night’s log, Ollie wants to celebrate it on the 21st and Shadow has no complaint with that. Ollie rode his bike over after school
and we then went shopping for birthday presents. We came home and gave Shadow a new stuffed animal to destroy
and a very expensive Yak bone. Ollie presented him with his gifts and Shadow definitely prefers the bone. While Ollie was here, he cleaned up all the branches in the backyard left behind after the limb fell on Sunday morning.
He is a great little worker.
The weather is slowing cooling down. The days have been warm, but the nighttime temps are now down in the 50’s. We have one more nice day and then the temperature drops and the rains come down. Not a great weekend for my friends to visit the Cape, but no complaints. This week has been spectacular.
