Harry Potter puzzle, Bailey on time, travel and watch band

October 28, 2023: Ok today was a relaxed morning. Basically, I woke up and took my meds at 7:15am with a black cherry Keto yogurt that we’d bought for the retreat, and I’d never had to use. Then, four of us worked on a new Harry Potter jigsaw puzzle for like an hour or so. After that, Jon actually made us all a big breakfast. It was eggs, biscuits and gravy, and bacon, and probably other things too. After eating, I told them all I was grateful to not be randomly throwing up anymore. Whenever I get kind of full now I think about that, like what if it all came up? But it doesn’t anymore, which I’m glad about.

Then, I tried to lead the way at the airport, to prove to both me and to mom that I’d be capable of that. We were at Gate 53, and got there no problem. Once we were on the plane, I honestly mainly just dove into organizing my phone and deleting apps and assigning new colorful icons to the ones that I kept. I like the colorful icons, even if they don’t show notifications in the corner. I actually find the red circle notification symbols a bit annoying anyways. Oh, and also on the plane, we were put in really bad seats. It was right at the front of the section so you had to pull the tray out from the side, and we couldn’t charge phones around takeoff or anything too. It was irritating, especially because we were supposedly in comfort plus. I said afterward that if felt a bit more like comfort minus. We might have gotten some SkyMiles added in compensation, but I’m not quite sure.

Anyways, after the flight, Papa picked us up and drove mom home right away. Then, he took me back to his house and had me drive home from there. So really, it was a day full of traveling. The only other notable event is that at night I decided to switch my watch wristband for a different one that had also come with the watch when I had bought it. In a way, I used to really like the green band because it’s the one I was wearing during the crash, and now I’ve decided to not place value on it for just that reason. Also, the new reddish band is much less frayed, given that it hasn’t been worn for the past two years. It still has the benefit of being from before the TBI, which is nice, just not being what I was wearing when I was run over.

Grateful: Honestly, I’m grateful to have my own house today. I know there’s a lot of people who live with brain injuries who aren’t able to live alone, and I deeply appreciate it. Just coming home and doing adult things like unpacking and showering felt really nice.