Day 110 of 365 Days of Being Thankful

       Today I am so thankful that Olivia really likes her job in the salon.  Olivia has finally found a direction towards a career.  In this salon, clients are given a robe to wear as soon as they go in the salon and they are given, a glass of wine or a cup of coffee or a soda.

I am so happy that she is enjoying her job.  Next week she starts Cosmetology School, I hope that she has nice people in her class. She comes out of the salon with a smile on her face, so far,  that is! I hope the enjoyment continues!
       Today I am also thankful for my Physical Therapist.  I had to get PT for my shoulder and for my sciatica.   My PT was a nice looking, friendly,  Asian young man. 

I never saw an Asian man with tattoos but he had several and had several piercings in both ears. He told me that he also worked weekends at a hospital to make more money.  I thought he was saving for his kids' college or something like that.  He said, "no, I'm earning as much as I can so that I can afford to move out of my parent's house."  He said that was his goal.  I told him that it probably was his parents' number one goal too!!

As hard as he tried, he couldn't get my leg to react to any pain. I had to bend, twist, turn hop, jump and stand on one foot. He had me stand on my sore leg foot for a few minutes and then bend forwards and backwards but I didn't feel the sciatica pain..  When the sciatica acts up, it is most definitely a 9 or 10 on a scale of 1 to 10! I hope it is gone but I doubt it.  I didn't go to the gym this morning because I had a doctor's appointment and I didn't have time to get to the gym before I had a PT appointment. Somehow though, I did find time to stop and get a soft pretzel and eat it!  I will definitely go to the gym tomorrow morning. The sciatica comes and goes for me. After having me perform several strenuous movements with no leg or hip pain, he declared, "Hey, I must have cured your sciatica!" He gave me exercises to do at home tomorrow.  He definitely got my shoulder to react to pain.  Just touching it is painful and he manipulated it backwards and forwards.  That really hurt!  He put some type of ultrasound contraption on my shoulder that he moved back and forth in the area. He said it would break up some of the calcium still in my shoulder. maybe I am OK with the calcium there! That pain shot me through the roof! He said to me, "I guess that hurt, huh?" YES, IT DID!! I guess my yelling ouch and ow loudly gave him a clue!
     No work on the GLAM ROOM today.  Olivia worked until 4:30, then went out to meet her friends for dinner. 
         I am reading the book BEAR TOWN for the library book club.  I hadn't planned to go to the meeting this month but the librarian asked me to run the meeting because she has a family event.  I agreed to do it, she is such a nice person, there is no way I could say no.  And the book is fabulous! It is about a small town that is fixated and lives for ice hockey! It is also a compelling story about a heroic individual who has to go against the town  The author, Fredrik Backman, is so wonderful, his writing is so beautiful and masterful.
      I was reading about Barbara Bush today.  I didn't realize that she had lost her three year old daughter many years ago.  Death doesn't care if one is rich or poor, famous or unknown, it can happen to  any family.  Many Presidents have been affected by child loss.The Kennedys lost a child, the Bidens lost two children, and I remember reading that Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson also lost a child or children. I'm sure there were many others.  I remember when I was reading Joe Biden's book, Promise Me, Dad, that he wrote that one in 10 families are affected by child loss of their own child, or a relative's child or an in-law's child.