Hi Dave,

Things are beginning to settle down .... finally. It's sort of scary
when you mgo to an appointment with your doctor and he says "I want
you to go to the Emergency Room right new. I'll cal and let them know what's going on."

That would scare me. No idea why? I would have asked what/why.

His prefacing comment was "Your lungs sound like pneumonia". My temp
was 98.1. But even with the O2 set at 6 litres per minute my oxymeter
was running only in the upper 70s.

Sounds like he had good reason for you to hike yourself over to the
hospital. Back in 2001 when I broke my elbow on a Saturday afternoon,
the plan was to put it back together Sunday morning. My O2 level was in
the mid 80s so the pulmonolgy doctor vetoed it, pumped me full of O2 and albuterol over the next 24 hours and surgery was done on Monday morning.
They kept me on O2 and albuterol round the clock (got woken up at 2 am
for breathing treatments) for several more days until they were happy
with the numbers.

Would have been nice if he's put me "in the lop" as well. Then the
E.R. told me I'd be in hospital overnight for observation. Which
stretched to a week.

Must have had a lot to look at. (G) Hopefully nothing major planned for the week so that the time in the hospital didn't conflict with much.

I quickly went from "observation" to inmate status. They shot a wad of antibiotics into me in the ER and that helped with the breathing. Then
the pulmonologists scheduled my for a CAT scan, found a "spot" on my
right lung (damned cigarettes) and set me up for a bronchoscopy. They
were making noises after the procedure about biopsy, etc. Turned out
to not need biopsy so no cancer (phew). But I gat a script for a new
puff
dragon (inhaler) in addition to the two I already have. And they
dropped my diabetes meds from my daily list.

Good to hear that the diabetes meds were dropped, not so good to hear
about needing another inhaler. I was switched from Advair (generic)
daily and albuterol as needed to Trelegy last fall, still albuterol as
needed and use a nebuliser at least once a day. It took a while but I'm
doing better than I was last year, even tho I've had a couple of minor bronchitis flare ups.

8<-----SNIPPETY------>8

Corned beef, now. With a good slather of zippy horseradish and some
boiled potatoes coateed w/melted butter. Yuuuuuuummmmm.

Actually, I prefer a spicy brown mustard with corned beef.

That or a nice zippy Dijon mustard are my second choice, Bv)=

There were 2 in the pack, cooked them on Monday and been eating off of them all week. Started the second one yesterday, decided we're never
going to buy corned beef from Lidl again. Both of them have been tough, even with gentle simmering.

Brisket isn't the tenderest of cuts on a beef animal. Use your
microtome and shave it very thinly. Bv)=

We found that steaming it to reheat it does make it more tender. Took a
while to discover it but that will be our "go to" for the rest of the
brisket. The briskets we bought from Sam's Club (one for corned beef &
cabbage, 2 for pastrami) were quite tender.

Still, my appetite has greatly diminished over the years. We went to

My appetite has lessened as I age. Last night I was going to hit up
the Star 66 cafe at the local truck-stop for the AYCE "walleye" and a
bowl
of their really nice brocolli-cheese soup. But, inertia took over and
I nuked up a Healty Choice frozen entree (9 3/4 oz) and a Coke Zero.

Sounds like the way I get sometimes, especially if we've been out most
of the day. Even a couple of hours in the afternoon can really tire me out--lingering effects of the radiation?

I'd go for a home made whole grain waffle and sliced "real" bacon. A friend of Steve's was, last night, telling us of a fruit waffle he had
in Europe--waffle batter cooke a bit, then fruit put on it and then
more batter. The waffle enclosed the fruit when cooked. Sounds good,
maybe with strawberries, blueberries or peaches.

Dat sounds good as well.

Indeed!

Title: Soccer Mom Fast Broccoli Cheese Soup
Categories: Soups, Pork, Cheese, Dairy, Vegetables
Yield: 4 Servings

1 bn Broccoli; chopped
+=OR=+
10 oz Pkg frozen broccoli
1 c Water
4 tb Butter
Salt & pepper
1 c Cheddar cheese soup
1 1/2 c Velveeta cheese; diced *
2 c Milk; or more, to desired
- consistency
8 sl Cooked bacon; chopped or
- crumbled

* I used "Cheez Wiz" instead of Velveeta. Neither is
real cheese - but, then, they work well in this recipe.
~- UDD

Throw a handful of chicken in it and use bacon crumbles. I bought a
small bag of the latter on one of our Vermont trips, found that the
Sam's Club and Costco versions are nothing but bacon so now we keep a
bag on hand for convenient "toss ins".

I make my own "crumbles". Gordon Food Service puts their 3# packages
of bocan on special often enough that I never run out. Typically I'll
but
a 3# of thick cut (10 slices/lb) and a 3# regular (20 slices/lb) and
cook the thick cut in the nuker ASAP. Store the meat in my nice Tupper storage box that seems to have been designed with my personal needs in mind. It's crispy-cooked so it's easy to make crumbles (or larger
pieces) as needed. The thin/regular goes in the drawer in the ice box
to use as needed. And the dripping for all of that goes into a crock
to use for
frying eggs or haash browns, etc. Or where a recipe calls for bacon grease.

Sounds good but I don't think (know of) anything like Gordon's Food
Service around here. Might be something to look into. And yes,
Tupperware has what they call a "bacon keeper" in their assortment of
storage boxes. They also have a "cold cut keeper" which would work for
larger quantities of bacon.


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Hi Dave,

Quite so. We even have the Simmons Cancer Institute.

Not heard of that one but I presume a top tier one.

Accordig to their on-line blurb: "Simmons Cancer Institute offers comprehensive cancer care, research and education at SIU School of Medicine." The doctor who did my gall bladder surgery is based there.

Still, doesn't have a name I recognise.

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Cats are a different class of moocher. I had a cat once that followed
me around like a dog and demonstrated several dog-like traits. So much
so that I named her "Spot". One time I shared some leftover on the plate

Wasn't that the name of Data's (from Star Trek, The Next Generation)
cat also? My youngest sister just adopted a rescue kitten, part Bengal name Larry.

Yes, it was. A fact I learned post naming. I really don't waqtch much Babble Box .... except when I managed the satellite shop,

It was one of Steve's favorite shows when it ran. Since we only had the
one tv and it was in the living room, I was pretty much a captive
audience (tho I didn't watch, just heard) and picked up quite a bit
about it.

spaghetti w/meat sauce. Spot licked the sauce from the hamburger and
the noodles and left them behind. I really hated it when she
contracted feline aids and I had to tell the vet to do the obvious.

It's never easy; we had to give up our last cat because of health
issues. Folks that adopted her specialised in taking cats with health challenges so I hope she lived to a ripe old age. Never knew how old
she was; she was abused as a kitten and adopted out of a German animal shelter.

go for stuff as hot as I used to - for that very reason. But I still
put a glug of Frank's in my tomato juice.

I've come way down on my heat tolerance level. It was a high medium in
AZ and first part of HI, now down to mild with a bit of a kick.

Popeyes spicy chicken is fairly mild. But if I want to get stupid they offer a Ghost Pepper spiced sandwich or wings.

I go for the mild white; I like the taste of it better than spicy, dark.
It's a few pennies more but worth it, IMO.


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