10:49 AM 11/14/2023 Peripheral neuropathy is holding steady. I notice it mainly when I curl my toes. It's mostly in the balls of my feet. I don't know whether closed-toe shoes still touch it off because I wear sandals to spare my corns. I can't remember the last wrinkled-socks sensation, but when I'm barefoot on linoleum, I sometimes feel that something is stuck to the ball of my foot. ------ Arthritis: Index and middle fingers of left hand are now deformed. I don't think the thumb is worse -- I wish I had photographed it last year. So far no interference with activity and very little pain. ------ Weight: at last exam, my weight had slowly drifted down to 138 pounds. When it hit 138, it bounced, has now exceeded 142. I try to resist eating when I'm not hungry. ------ Dr. Hickman (eyes) told me to eat dark-green vegetables. I ate kale and chard until the farmers' markets closed, and now I'm eating frozen greens. Do I get partial credit for light-green vegetables? ------ I've fluid in my right retina, and have two more needle sticks in January and February. ------ Cycling: I went soft this winter and summer. I worked my way back up to twenty miles, aiming for thirty, then hardly-any-fit-days season hit, I don't dare ride when there might be ice in the streets, and I feel that I shouldn't ride when the swimming ban after a needl-stick is in effect, since tears run out my nose when I ride in cold weather. I plan to ask before my next needle in the eye. ------ Sciatica: Exercises sometimes hurt my left hip, the outside of the upper thigh, and/or across the lower back. It's the sort of pain that works out, but never works all the way out. Sometimes I limp when first getting out of bed, or after sitting too long at the computer. When standing around in the church narthex, I sometimes take an unexpected side step. Most of the time, I don't know I've got it. 4:32 PM 11/17/2023 ! I just got back from walking around the block with Dave: walking slowly didn't hurt, and I didn't stagger even once. The exercises are paying off. ------ I'm scheduled for a whole-skin exam at Forefront in April. The exam is done in Warsaw, but treatments are in Fort Wayne. I'm too old to drive to Fort Wayne; if she finds anything, I'll need a referral to a local dermatoligist. ------ ------