Dear Darling Ones,

Before we begin, let’s have a moment of silence for Padma Lakshmi leaving “Top Chef.” My very favorite show will not be the same without her. Do you remember the woman who hosted the first season? She was awful.

In other news, Yesterday I graduated from Occupational Therapy. Today I officially graduated from at-home Physical Therapy.

If this were anything like my high school graduation I’d be spending all night at The Mermaid dancing to Bel Biv DeVoe.

Since this is not 1990 and I’ve had a stroke, I can’t really dance like that anymore and instead I’m celebrating being able to stand up and turn in circle with my eyes closed.

Go me!

I’m not entirely sure how I graduated because I only managed a D- in PT. I got 34 out of 56 points, according to Rob the PT guy who had to evaluate me.

Apparently they don’t grade on a curve? Or they do? I’ve been out of a school for a long time. I don’t know how grades really work anymore.

Even though I gave myself a D-, Rob was super happy about how far I’ve come in the month since he saw me. I doubled my score from May, he said, and even though I am still technically a fall risk, I’m ready to start therapy in the clinic.

To be fair, I told him, I was probably a fall risk before the stroke.

So yay! Progress.

It was so nice to hear about how far I’ve come. It’s hard to judge my own progress because I keep measuring where I’m currently at against what was normal. I’m nowhere near normal and thus it feels like I’ve made no progress. But I have! Rob said so.

Now I just need to land a spot at the clinic. Right now they’re scheduling slits in July. JULY!

Like Paula Abdul and the great DJ Skat Kat said, “I take two steps forward, I take two steps back.”

Your natural fact,
Jodi