Diet:
* 06:30 – toast and butter
* 07:00 – 1 banana, 2 crispy oatmeal cookies
* 09:30 – beef chop suey, fried rice
* 10:30 – dish of ice cream
* 15:30 – 1 peanut butter sandwich
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 05:30 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 05:50 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:45 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 11:30 – rec'd phone call from clinical trial people
* 15:15 – listening to The Jack Ricardi Show
* 17:00 – listening to The Joe Pags Show
* 18:10 – tuned into the University of Louisville Radio Station for my Friday Night Football, a College Game with the Clemson Tigers traveling to the Louisville Cardinals
In Summary:
* A frustrating day in which I had to spend time on the phone straightening out miscommunication between two different doctors' offices, resulting in one office apologizing to me. And the Clinical Trials folks have finally given me a date when my treatments are to begin: next Monday, 17 November. Whew!
Diet:
* 06:00 – 2 HEB Bakery cookies
* 06:20 – toast and butter
* 06:45 – cottage cheese
* 07:00 – 2 crispy oatmeal c00kies
* 10:30 – 2 more HEB Bakery cookies
* 11:35 – egg drop soup, beef chop suey, fried rice
* 15:00 – 2 more HEB Bakery cookies
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 04:30 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 05:30 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 05:45 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 11:35 – watch old game shows, eat lunch at home with Sylvia
* 13:15 – follow news reports from various sources
* 15:30 – listening to The Jack Ricardi Show
* 17:00 – listening to relaxing music and quietly reading
* 19:15 – listening to the Hawkeye Radio Network ahead of tonight's Women's College Basketball between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Drake Bulldogs.
In Summary:
* Happy to get a phone call early this afternoon from the nurse who is my contact / intake person as I try to get into the clinical trials exploring alternate treatment for the wet macular degeneration condition in my right eye. She told me not to give up on them. She cancelled my previosly scgeduled apt. tomorrow morning with my Retina doc when we were going to start standard treatment. She's trying to schedule my first clinical trial treatment for Thursday or Friday afternoon of this week, or Monday morning of next week.
Diet:
* 06:20 – 2 HEB Bakery cookies, 1 banana
* 07:00 – cottage cheese and applesauce
* 08:45 – fried chicken, biscuit, 3 boiled eggs
* 10:50 – 2 HEB Bakery cookies
* 11:45 – pork chops
* 12:45 – pumpkin pie
* 15:15 – 1 fresh apple
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 05:00 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 05:50 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:20 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 12:30 to 13:15 – watch old game shows and eat lunch at home with Sylvia.
* 14:45 – listening to relaxing music, quietly reading
* 17:30 – listening to The Joe Pags Show
* 18:00 – tuned into my college basketball of the night, Milwaukee Wisconsin Panthers at Indiana Hoosiers
In Summary:
* Received a call from my cell-phone company (purportedly), some foreign guy with an accent so strong I could barely make out what he was saying. Then spent the following 3-hours trying to make sense of my phone bill. Think I finally figured out what's going on, no thanks to those clowns at T-Mobile.
Diet:
* 05:30 – 1 banana
* 06:25 – 2 HEB Bakery cookies
* 07:50 – 2 crispy oatmeal cookies
* 08:30 – 3 boiled eggs
* 09:45 – 2 more HEB Bakery cookies
* 10:45 – cottage cheese
* 14:00 – 5 hotdogs, saltine crackers
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 04:30 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 05:45 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:50 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 13:45 to 14:45 – watch old game shows and eat lunch at home with Sylvia
* 15:00 – listening to relaxing music, quietly reading
* 16:00 to 19:00 – rec'd a call from my cell-phone company (purportedly), some foreign guy with an accent so strong I could barely make out what he was saying. Then spent the following 3-hours trying to make sense of my phone bill. Think I finally figured out what's going on, no thanks to those clowns at T-Mobile.
* 19:30 – listening to relaxing music again, hoping to quiet my mind before bedtime
In Summary:
* Today was not what I'd hoped it would be. Still no word from the clinical trials I'm hoping to get into. /sigh. The time that I saved by doing my laundry yesterday was spent digging through my closet to find the box with my cold weather clothes, then hanging them up. 'Tis the season for that.
Diet:
* 05:40 – 1 banana
* 06:50 – toast and butter, 2 HEB Bakery cookies
* 08:30 – 5 hot dogs
* 10:35 – 2 more HEB Bakery cookies
* 13:30 – mystery tacos from yesterday's misdelivery
* 16:05 – 1 fresh apple
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 05:00 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 06:00 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:30 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 13:00 to 14:15 – watch old game shows and eat lunch at home with Sylvia
* 14:15 to 15:45 – haul cold weather clothes out of closet
* 15:45 – listen to The Jack Ricardi Show
* 17:00 – listening to The Joe Pags Show
* 20:00 – listening to The Lars Larson Show
In Summary:
* Decided to do my weekly laundry today, rather than on Monday as I ordinarily do. I'm still waiting to hear if I'm being accepted into clinical trials for my eye treatment. If I'm accepted, it is very possible I'll be called tomorrow morning and asked to report for my first day's treatment. If that happens it won't be necessary for me to rush around worrying about doing my laundry, I've taken care of that today.
Diet:
* 06:40 – applesauce, 2 crispy oatmeal cookies
* 07:40 – fried chicken
* 08:30 – 1 peanut butter sandwich
* 13:05 – snack on saltine crackers
* 15:00 – eating a misdelivered door dash order, a bowl of some kind of Mexican food, rice, vegetables, meat, sauce, with sides of different sauces and 2 flour tortillas. There was no address on the bag, but a phone number that reguired a door dash account number. I don't have a door dash account so... free food from the universe. lol.
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 06:20 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:30 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 11:00 – listen to relaxing music
* 11:30 – tuned into the Flagship Station for IU Sports ahead of this afternoon's men's college basketball game, Indiana Hoosiers at Marquette Golden Eagles. GO HOOSIERS!
* 14:10 – final score: IU 100 – Marquette 77.
* 14:20 – listening to relaxing music
* 14:30 – started my weekly laundry
* 18:20 – folding the last of the day's laundry.
In Summary:
* More than anything else, today has been a “recovery” day. I wasn't necessarily expecting that, but turns out it was needed. All the testing done on my right eye Thursday and Friday mornings was surprisingly stressful. A stress-free, relaxing Saturday has done wonders to steady my mind.
Diet:
* 07:30 – 2 crispy oatmeal cookies, 1 barbacoa breakfast taco
* 10:30 – BIG buffet brunch at Golden Corral
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 07:00 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 07:15 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 10:10 – go to Golden Corral for brunch with the wife
* 12:15 – Back from GC in time to catch the end of the 1st half of the IU /Penn St. college football game. Halftime sees IU ahead 17-7.
* 14:40 – after the dramatic win by IU, I'm now watching Iowa St. vs TCU
* 17:00 – listening to relaxing music and quietly reading
* 19:00 – Svengoolie
In Summary:
* No word yet on whether or not I've been accepted into clinical trials for my eye treatment. Hopefully I'll hear something re: that on Monday or Tuesday of next week.
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 04:30 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 05:15 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 05:30 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 07:40 – listening to relaxing music as I prepare for this morning's appointment, meeting, testing, etc.
* 08:15 to 12:30 – applying to enter clinical trials for my eye treatment.
* 12:30 to 13:30 – watch old game shows and eat lunch at home with Sylvia
* 13:45 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 17:00 – now listening to college basketball, Georgetown Hoyas vs Maryland Terrapins
In Summary:
* The most significant part of this Thursday in the Roscoe-verse was my decision this morning to sign up for clinical trials studying alternative treatments for my bad eye. Tomorrow morning I'll find out more about the details of what I signed up for.
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 05:00 – listen to local news, talk radio
* 06:15 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:30 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 10:00 to 11:00 – apt. with retina doc
* 11:30 to 12:30 – brunch with Sylvia at iHop
* 13:00 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 18:15 – listening to The Joe Pags Show
* 20:00 – listening to relaxing music
In Summary:
* Another calm, peaceful day is wrapping up. Hopefully a nice, restful night's sleep is next on this old boy's agenda. Tomorrow morning I've got an appointment with a retina doctor. It will be good to go into that well-rested.
Activities, Chores, etc.:
* 06:25 – bank accounts activity monitored
* 06:30 – read, pray, listen to news reports from various sources
* 11:00 – listen to relaxing music
* 12:45 – watch old game shows and eat lunch at home with Sylvia
* 14:10 – read, write, pray, follow news reports from various sources
* 18:10 – listening to relaxing music