Monday, January 6, 2025

Short stuff!

Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully, including my struggles to maintain a balanced life, what I listen to, read, and watch for entertainment, and occasional bits of information I’ve gleaned from doing the research for my novels.

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Daily Diary, Day 1587:

Good news department, after my first full day of the anti-biotic, I think the swelling in my elbow has gone down a smidgeon (some fine wrinkles are appearing on the edges of the swelling-which I am interpreting as the fluid retreating). I can’t get an appointment to see my primary care doctor for 10 days (when I would have finished the anti-biotic), so I sent her an email this morning reporting what was going on. I figure if she feels I should be seen by someone, or if some additional lab tests should be ordered (I am already scheduled to do my yearly test on blood sugar, lipids, etc. tomorrow), she will respond.

Alos in the good news department, yesterday, was a gloriously sunny day, which is perfect because it was a day for being outside. In the morning, around 9, my husband and I went over to the house of our grandniece and husband to see them and her parents who had come last week for a visit. Since Steve (our nieces’ husband) had come down with Covid at the beginning of the trip, the plans to get together had to be cancelled. But this morning it was warming up rapidly (was 41 degrees when we got up, already high 50s when we arrived at their place, getting warmer and warmer) so we chatted for an hour, (them up on the front porch, Steve in the doorway-and us on the lawn).

Then a friend I hadn’t seen since before covid came over to our place around 11, and by that time it was in the low 70s, and we gladly sat outside for the next-hour and a half getting caught up. In the evening we watched some more of the Smiley’s People miniseries—will finish that tonight—and finished watching Graham Norton.

Today, I am resisting the desire to get busy cleaning and walking, at least until the swelling is more visibly retreating, but I did my yoga this morning (30 minutes of deep breathing didn’t seem unreasonable), and now I have done my first icing/heat session. After I put up this post Rio the border collie comes over for a visit, and I do have a phone call scheduled for late t

this afternoon, but this should give me time to get back to doing my research reading on engraving.

Here is another metal lawn ornament I saw on my last walk.

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