Thursday 07/13/2023
Did the gym thing. Twice in a week. Will I do it again Saturday? Time will tell.
Just like yesterday, walked to T&C for coffee and scone at Peet’s, then across the parking lot to the PAMF building where my cardiologist hangs out. This appointment went nicely. She listened to my heart and said the TAVR valve doesn’t have any sounds that suggest backflow. So it is functioning nominally. Yay! We reviewed my BP and she reduced one of my three BP meds from 7 days to M-W-F only. See you in a year.
Back home, at 1pm I met with Alice. Alice is very smart, very with-it. She has a bit of a reputation for being a PITA around CH, because she is very involved in progressive political causes and organizes a lot. (She has more than once traveled to Washington DC on her own to lobby congresspeople.) However she is nice enough in person and like I said, quick on the uptake. At the last RA meeting, David Golden had thrown in an extemporaneous plea for more AV volunteers, and Alice had contacted me to volunteer. Can’t turn that down.
Today I met with her on the 11th floor and walked her through using the Lecternette there. Then we went downstairs to the Auditorium and went through using the downstairs Lecternette, the one we wheel out to the lobby for events there. She had no problem picking it up. We went backstage and she showed me some things about the stage lights that I had not known! Then we went over the auditorium microphone usage.
After supper we had a concert, flute, violin, cello, piano, some classical music. It was well performed but I didn’t stay for all of it.
Codgerville 