[Dmom3005]

Bizi

I always love reading about your day and eating. I'm hoping things
start to look up for Susan.

donna

[bizi]

Thanks Donna, I do too.
While she was in N.C., well rather she still is there....sorry
while her husband was still there they ended up taking her to a psych hospital, for 11 hours which sounded dreadful. She was not admitted.
She may be flying home on friday...
don't know for sure.
Ate too much tonight. We had gone out for cheap boiled crawfish.
It was not a good experience.
Had char broiled oysters that were not that good. And the crawfish stuck to the shell and they shredded apart and did not taste all that good. Corn and potatoes were good. Dipping sauce was fair.
WE are so used to dwights and love their food but alas the crawfish season is almost over, dwights stopped last week, *sniff sniff.
Going to a greek restaurant tomorrow with my lunch buddies instead of Sandras.
I have a busy day tomorrow need to go to bed early tonight.
bizi

[bizi]

My leg is getting better every day I can feel it less of an issue.
I was a drenched rat yesterday when I got caught in the rain so had a rain coat today. I put 92 miles on my car today and managed to stay out of the rain for the most part. Drove thru a down pour!

Had a great lunch at the greek place. Ate off the buffet but did not over do it and only had one plateful. But at $12 I don't think I ate my moneys worth. Had cardamon tea with honey and milk. did not taste any different but is supposed to be very healthy. grilled chicken pieces, tabouli, grapeleaves, hummus and 2fried eggplant halves. It was good.
There ended up just being 4 of us.

After lunch I went to see emily my 56 year old client who lives in an assisted living home, She had fallen and broke her shoulder a month ago. felt sorry for her. I have seen her for years and she has some sort of autism, mental deficiency but we connect and our visits are great.

I had a new client this afternoon,"miss priss" in her 70's I think.
She was a smoker, lung disease...wears oxygen when she is in the house...not smoking. She has hired help. Getting over pneumonia, has a terrible cough. She kept me waiting inside while she finished her cigarette....also has diabetes and was eating fried pork fat and offered some to me. It is called cracklins. I gracefully declined.
She told me she used to live in brazil and would get pedicures for 25 cents. That some times she would get 3 pedicures in one day. I told her she was spoiled! I gave her a good pedicure but really just wanted to leave, hope she doesn't call me back....am I a bad person for that....?
I am used to geriatric patients.
anyway.
I saw an Alzheimer pt after her. Sweet bell she lets me do her pedicures but doesn't want me to put lotion on her...which is the best part of a pedicure!
She is very frail, walks with a walker and help and has 24 hour around the clock sitters. I see her every 2 months.
For the most part I love my job. Thankful for the work and my ability to do the work.
Jeff cooked baked teryaki ginger salmon for dinner tonight with green beans and half an avocado. couple of strawberries and 2 hersheys dark chocolate kisses. Delicious!

Went to the gym and and walked on the tred mill for an hour and tried to do a weight machine...I am not ready for that yet.Did a pigeon stretch and even that was hard, tight to do. Tried to do a lunge and that was really hard to do. yesterday I tried to do a squat and could not do that. I am so out of shape.

Jeff just came home from having a few beers with a friend. Going to watch another x-files episode and go to bed.

bizi

[Mari]

Bizi,

You have a lot of compassion for your patients.

It is good to hear about the leg improving.

Hubby likes cardamon tea. I buy the whole spices for him and he uses his pestle and mortar.
People use cardamon in dessert foods and baked goods. 'Can be in oatmeal, on a sweet potato . . .


Have you had pork rinds?
They are zero carbs and can be used in cooking -- like as a type of breading for fish and other foods.
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/peggys_ovenfried_fish.html

I do not let the pedicurists put lotion on me. Sometimes I am even slightly rude about it (I do that to make a point and so that they remember) (I guess everyone is different.)

Take care.

M

[EnglishDave]

Bizi,

We have Pork Scratchings over here, made from the skin and fat from the back legs of bacon pigs. Cut into strips about half an inch long and fried to leave a thick layer of fat attached, then heavily salted.

We buy it in little bags, normally with a Pint in the Pub. It is not a snack for diets or those with heart problems - it is addictive. It is also lucky to find a piece with a hair still attached

Boy, do I miss them!

Dave.

[bizi]

yes dave that is them I do believe.
and mari I have tried pork rinds before...not fond of them on several levels.
thank you for your kind words to me.
bizi

[bizi]

tonight was a hard night.
I WANTED TO DRINK SO BADLY!!!!!!
We went to this dinner that at first I was not going to go..then was encouraged to go from a friend who was going to be there. so I went.
there was another couple there and I was talking to her, she was very nice and I was so self concious and in my head was wolfie telling me that I needed to go out and buy some alcohol to deal with this. I was not even able to have a conversation with her.
sigh
Social anxiety sucks.
I resisted.
this is day 11, I said it was going to be a dry june, gosh darnit!
I just started my cycle today...sigh
That is why I got up early because my back ached....AH HA!!!
I heard from my friend.
She said that she was better today! and that she found an OCD website that she could relate to! so this is positive!
not sure what she is doing this summer, yet don't think she knows.
The farm in wisconsin is still an option for her...which I think is a great idea, farm therapy.
Will just have to wait and see how this turns out.
Feeling so stressed at the dinner that I was holding my head and my friend asked me if I had a headache and I said yes.....
I used that as an excuse to leave early.
sigh
If I had been drinking I would have been able to tolerate the dinner.
I have a low tolerance threshold.
bizi