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I had a nice chat on Zoom with my mother this afternoon, just because it's been a while. We talked about our various physiotherapy exercises (including what I'm now doing for my wrist, "occupational therapy" is physio for the hand, wrist, or forearm), and how well we're keeping up with those over time.

I got mail saying that my health insurance company has approved four more occupational therapy sessions, between now and the end of December. Right now, it feels like that will be enough.

After talking with Mom I went for a walk with cattitude and adrian_turtle, since it was warm and sunny (for October, around 72F/22C).

I got mail saying that my health insurance company has approved four more occupational therapy sessions, between now and the end of December. Right now, it feels like that will be enough. I continue to improve, despite not having seen the therapist last week; not seeing her last week means I got no ultrasound or massage, as well as no changes to the exercises I was doing.

My left arm seems to have recovered, which I'm noting here because I noted when I'd resumed the exercises with the putty. I'll probably keep doing those a bit longer, just in case.

one of today's lucky 10,000

TIL that people have used genetic engineering to create silkworms with colored silk. A wide range of colors has been achieved -- all of them fluorescent: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29620530/

I found this via Steve Novella's blog: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/pangenome-of-the-domestic-silkworm/