After a week of eating out, I did have a little loss. My weight this morning is an even 265, so that's a loss of a few tenths for the week and a maintenance since the last report on Tuesday morning. I am very happy to be down about half a pound after the six days of eating out every day. It's a relief.
We have had some lovely meals out, too. The restaurant last night at Loew's Royal Pacific at Universal Resort was spectacular. We would definitely go back there in the future to try some other things from their menu. We also really enjoyed the two kiosks at the Food and Wine Festival on Monday, Olive Garden on Tuesday, and the Break the Fast at the synagogue Wednesday.
Before and after Yom Kippur on Wednesday, Mark had to go to the doctor. On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Mark had leg pain in the evening. I mentioned that in the previous blog. We went to the doctor Tuesday because we were concerned he had a clot. There was swelling in the calf and pain when he touched a certain spot. At the office, the PA asked him to take his shoes and socks off, and we were stunned to see how huge his ankle was on that side. She sent him for an immediate ultrasound, sure there was a clot. Well, there was no clot.
So we had to move on to check into the hotel and go to services. Services are long, both Tuesday evening and all day Wednesday, but the choir did well and everything was good. Break the fast was delicious and social with our choir friends from the synagogue. Then Thursday we went back to the doctor to see what it might be if not a clot. The decision is that it is either a pulled/strained muscle or tendon. Treatment is elevation, icing of the ankle, heating of the back of the knee/top of calf area where the immediate pain is, continued walking periodically so as not to be sitting too long, a prescription NSAID, which we haven't picked up yet, and an antibiotic on the off chance that it might be cellulitis. We don't really believe it's cellulitis, but it's better to be on the safe side, so he's going to take the antibiotic.
Today we are doing some shopping and working in the library. We are NOT going to a doctor or the synagogue. LOL!! How nice!
Tomorrow we are not going to the synagogue either. We are going to go to the Tampa Bay History Museum and eat out at the Columbia Restaurant inside the museum. Susie and Ed are doing the driving and treating us to lunch. Well, we will pay them back for the lunch next week so that we don't have to handle money on Shabbat. They very nicely volunteered to do that, so we were happy to accept the offer. Then we have a concert here in Solivita in the evening by a professional harpist. It's going to be an awesome day! I'll have to be a little careful with the lunch, but I looked at the menu already. I'm going to eat a mahi mahi Cuban sandwich that sounds amazing! I hope it doesn't kill my calories for the whole day. And the museum was FREE because it's part of a Smithsonian special free museum day if you printed out a coupon, so it was hard to resist going.
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