Selfie, Therapy with Jessica, BeReal before MRI, no Poké

July 3, 2023: Well this morning I kinda felt like it would be a pretty nice day. Just because I was gonna drive us down to Mayo Clinic and then meet Jessica in person again. Jessica is basically my secondary therapist. Like, she is an occupational therapist, which just means she asks me about work options a little bit more. So this morning I started off my taking my meds at 5:45am with a strawberry vanilla yogurt. Then played my games with Papa and I noticed that Mattheas had said yesterday that he’d never been to Nolo’s, and it sounds fun. It would be awesome to have that be how he meets Hannah. Maybe I could invite Suheily too, which occurred to me during the MRI that happened later. Papa also brought me my breakfast at home, which was a Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddle sandwich from McDonalds. He also brought me iced coffee from his house. On the way to Mayo, Papa and I talked about license plates a bit, and we asked Talia hers, and she said hers was JXK, which she thinks of as JFK but with an X because he’s dead. Papa also told her about my “don’t tell uncle” DTU and his “not in my backyard” NMB. Also, my Jessica appointment was in the Generose building, and my MRI was in the Charlton building. Papa generally had me act like I was going there alone for both of those. I also took a bunch of Jessica notes in my maroon notebook, and I was able to walk Jessica through the significance of everything I was wearing. After the therapy session, I emailed Sarah S. back and told her that I’d be open to doing my semi-annual check up on Friday. Sarah’s my case worker from the brain injury alliance. I also messaged Talia happy birthday around that time, and told her that tragically I was having an MRI on her birthday today. Then for that MRI, they actually got my IV in on the second try, even though she agreed I was an impossible stick, which I’d warned her about. I didn’t actually finish the MRI til like 4pm because they were an hour late getting me started because they had “some difficult patients,” and also apparently I shifted a little bit too much during the scan so they had to redo a few shots. Afterwards, we had a wonderful poké bowl at Yum Poké where I had the super bowl that had one spicy pepper emoji next to it. Shockingly, we didn’t take a selfie with the poké bowl, even though it was definitely a good moment in the day. I think I liked my bowl better than the one I’d had last time, which had three spicy emojis. I had also been meaning to ask the person who walked me out of the MRI if they could see signs of a TBI on MRIs, but I forgot to do that. Thanks, TBI. Funny enough I remember them playing music in headphones when I got an MRI before the TBI, but they didn’t do that this time. It would have made it a bit better I think. Then, we ate our poké bowls, which were wonderful after a long time not eating. And I also got a frozen matcha with bubbles from Caribou. Then I actually chose to have Papa drive most of the way back because laying in the MRI not really able to sleep much made me a bit tired. I also got to put in most of my earrings, though I still need help with two of them, which I had to take out because the MRI, unlike the PET scan, has you take out everything. I’m surprised and grateful that I didn’t have to take out my industrial too. And after I was done with the scan, I was also able to sign up for a Spanish-speaking airport greeter shift for Make-A-Wish. It’s the same day as a Jessica appointment but it should be done by 7am, even though I’ll have to get there at 5:30am, which is fine because I’m usually up then anyways. Oh and also today I missed taking my meds exactly 12 hours apart just because we’d eaten the poké bowl a bit later in the day. So what I did was when I got home to Papa’s house, I had an 11g fat vanilla yogurt with my meds at 6:48pm. And then when I was at his house, Talia also got in the two earrings I couldn’t get in alone after the MRI, and Papa backed up my computer again. It’s still going, it tells me it’s found over 150,000 changes. Alright, so then I drove home and took Papa’s car again, which it looks like fortunately I won’t have to keep for much longer because mom was able to get them to say they’ll look at it on Wednesday. Probably won’t be fixed by then, but it’s sooner than what we thought at least. I also tragically could not find Papa’s coffee mug that he thought he left here this morning. Oh no, I told him now at least. I also decided that I needed to take a shower, so I’ll do that now-ish. Ok, now I’ll be done, and I’ll head over tomorrow since Hannah’s busy and Caroline is at an internship in Wisconsin.