Wildflowerchild, I love your tatoo, what a great way to cover up your scars!

I'm sorry for everyone feeling down

My day went pretty well. I did a run/walk this morning (perhaps being a bit self-destructive), but I didn't fall again. I am feeling steadier on my feet and losing my balance less. My last fall was June 10, and I know that wasn't so long ago, but it would be awesome to go from 4 falls a month down to 1 and then hopefully none. I haven't had falling issues since my pdoc lowered my dosage of propranolol in half. I didn't overexercise, not by any virtue of my own, but because it looked like rain was coming in, so I stuck to going around the block and only made around 2 miles before it started pouring.

I saw the neurologist today, and everything checked out fine. She suspected either the Seroquel or propranolol was causing the falls since they can affect blood pressure, but my blood pressure was fine today lying down, sitting, then standing, not much change. I'd signed a release and had my latest labs sent over and those were fine too except my iron was low, which I had already seen when I looked up my results through the lab's website.

After getting home, we picked up my car from the shop (I'd driven my husband's car to my appointment); it had needed a new starter. Then, lunch, some chores, and grocery shopping, which took awhile today, mostly because I was out of stuff I normally don't have to buy and also because we are having a family reunion on Saturday, and I'm supposed to bring a dish & a dessert. I am not looking forward to this reunion at all. I know my own group of family, but this is a reunion from my late maternal grandfather's side. He had 9 siblings, all of which had families of their own, except a baby that died at birth, and his mother took in 2 of his cousins when they became orphaned and raised them as part of the family too. Anyway, my mom & aunt are hosting it, and my aunt has decided everyone needs to "mingle" and has come up with all these games and ice-breakers. Gag. I hate social conditions normally, much less being forced into them. Worse, my sister was going over the geneology of this family with my mom and grandmother the last time we got together for my niece's birthday, and it seems like 90% of the family is alcoholic or in jail for things like shoplifting or swindling money from elderly people. Makes you really want to get to know them. Apparently, my grandfather was a heavy drinker too, but he quit cold turkey when my mom was in her teens after my grandmother threatened to throw him out. I never saw him touch a drop of alcohol (he died when I was in my mid-20s). We lived very close to that set of my grandparents; they were practically 2nd parents to me, so I was around him a lot. My mom never drank because of the alcoholism on her dad's side. I can't wait for the reunion to be over with.

Tomorrow, my sister and 3 nieces are coming over to swim in our pool with my daughter & me, now that the rain has stopped. But then, my daughter has an eye doctor's appt. in the afternoon, and I anticipate she will need new glasses. She had her wellness exam at the pediatrician's yesterday, and they said her eyesight in both her eyes (with her current glasses on) is around 20/50. More expense there; she already has pretty bad eyes (taking after me on that).

Looked up my daughter's 4th grade scores on the Texas state standardized test (STAAR). I really hate standardized tests, and you can't opt your kid out of them in Texas. My daughter did really well though. She had a perfect score in math again (got a perfect math score in 3rd grade too), missed one question in reading and reads above a 12th grade level, and scored in the 97th percentile in writing. I always did well in school, but I had to work hard at math, and that is my daughter's top subject. She takes after my husband on that one