Many of you may know about my unnatural fear of birds.  Not sure where it comes from, but David always used to tell the story about rollerblading on the westside, and conjured up the image of me hitting the pavement because I saw a bird out of the corner of my eye.  I still find myself flinching pretty regularly when there are birds around.  Yesterday, I was sitting in the living room here in Palm Springs, and I heard a thud on the window to the back yard.  I got up to look, and there was a bird laying on the chair outside the door, and it must have flown into the window.  I then noticed another bird standing on the ground next to the chair waiting.  I had seen this happen once in the apartment in NY, and the bird was just stunned, and in a few minutes, the bird came to, and flew away.  I kept checking to see if he had flown away, but alas, the bird remained.  Both birds remained for quite a while.  Finally, after over an hour, the waiting bird had flown off, and I felt a little sad about the whole thing.  Still  really freaked out about the bird – dead or alive, they are frightening to me!  I made David go out and take care of the bird before I would venture outside.  Thank God he was there to help me through my irrational phobia.

Today David had another tennis lesson, and it went well.  Then we went to the Stroke Recovery Center for their speech group.  David was pretty distressed afterwards.  There were folks there who had strokes between five and eight years ago, and David couldn’t understand why they were still dealing with speech deficits.  He gets that it is a long process, but seeing the reality is pretty daunting.  As we were leaving, he was more concerned for me, and what this will all mean for me.

Then we went to the Doctor and he is adjusting his medication because of high cholesterol, and we are keeping an eye on his INR numbers.  Then home, swimming, exercise and a walk. We walked another house down the road (I have lost count of the number).  It was hot today, or seemed hotter.  We are getting out of town just in time, the forecast has the temperature in the valley as 120 on Saturday.  But, it’s a dry heat!  120 is 120.  Yikes!!