Monday, October 31, 2016

Got a hair cut today!

Actually more than one, bud, dump, bum, and a hehe to you!
Went over to my latest and last salon, chop shop, Fan Sam's.
For those not in the know, Fantastic Sam's, got it?
All chains seem to get bad reps and it is true that some are really bad, but it depends on who is working there, hmm?
Snobs, as I was for a time when it came to whom would style my furry mostly golden occasionally curly locks, but then I got real, when prices went up when technique did not!
So I floundered for a while insisting individually owned hair salons were better, not always, just as discount chain salons were not all bad!
Finding the stylists who know their stuff is the answer and when you do "stick with them", is my motto that is unless they move on seeking higher status and more/better income, yep it happens.
I even felt for a time that department stores who maintained their own salons were all the rage for perfection in designing my locks, who knows...
Mostly they were used to fix whatever disastrous coloring concoction I had created, green and blue come to memory but back in the 1960's through the eighties before it was okay and stylish, my BIG mistakes.
My recent choice of continuing my relationship with Fan Sam's is due to my discovery of a young woman who understands what I want and does that, Kendra, for my last two visits anyway.
I do not go as often as many or perhaps more often than most.
My decision to get cropped is due to my bangs length, and that is when they start going below my brows when wet, not dry, but knowing that can soon evolve to that.
Sure I do know that Hubby would drive me if I were temporarily blinded by this fixable temporary beauty issue, but "why wait", is my motto! Gosh that makes two for my hair alone, LOL!
Any women will have to admit whether she pays $12 bucks, like mine or two hundred like many the luxuriousness of someone handling your outer crowning glory and creating something you desire to be your very best is a BIG comforting turn on!
Even without having the shampoo segment of the experience that I cannot have.
I go with my clean hair and they wet it down, all due to my cervical stenosis that could cause paralysis being bent against the hard porcelain tub, or even a stroke has been said to be caused, seriously!
The medical info came out while I worked with seniors nearly twenty years ago and was verified at that time and shared.
Any-who, I used to go with a wet head, but it is totally unnecessary since they all know now and are prepared to spray with water if you just tell them.
Being in my motorized wheel chair also has them asking me, in fact they even move their chair out and so I can pull up and have me park in their spot, so cool!
You might have read where I can use my walker once again, actually always have been able, but it's the muscular syncope that tends to make me collapse when I least expect it that is the main problem thus my need for the motorized wheel chair.

Anyway, from there we went into Winn Dixie in the same mall and yes I was so cool staring temptation down in its tracks, food friends, for you northerners Winn Dixie is a grocery store that has wonderful rotisserie turkey!
So in two more days when I get to eat pureed foods or baby-like foods we picked up some things to make my own smoothie type foods.
Sweet potatoes and frozen veggies, instant mashed potatoes, chicken, and chop meat as well on the list pulverized with my spinach, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower were the three we chose today, still have some broccoli left, and cherry tomatoes were chosen too to make my own sort of tomato sauce without harsh spices or too much salt, baby food quality, but homemade.
The turkey and chicken and chop meat as well as ham will all be on the diet as well as my already mashed up pears, apples and bananas come later on, too high in carbs, but berries, all, are okay, blue, straw, ras etc. Forgot to get some more; next trip.

Protein is still the most important part of the diet, thus all the meat.
Sorry for all the TMI, but this is how my days go...

On this note of well, yep working on it, ha, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and to share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
  

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Real feelings

Okay, I know what I said about being all sorts of numb, here there and basically everywhere, but I too have feelings, odd and hard to define although there here and in many places...
Yup!
Healing pain?
Is there such a thingy?
Belly spots yell, no speak louder than I knew they could...
Those paper sutures curling up all over the place, four locales, with little harsh individual tugs.
Coughing diminished ever so slightly, Vicks in the vaporizer works well, as well as under the nosey and on the neck and chest. Still cannot use the CPAP without coughing into it, so a no go.
Short bouts of need of ice packs in the circular areas of my mid section anatomy, thighs, tummy, neck even under arms.
Must move more.
Getting sore from not.
Hubby waits on me, but I do try to get some things for myself.
My soups are masticated via blender even chicken noodle, cream of mushroom, chicken and rice, but not my tomato basil!  Ah variety!
Pudding, chocolate and vanilla, JELLO, cherry, ice pops!
Protein drinks, cream of wheat and creamed oatmeal.
Tummy refuses too much of anything at one time, as it should.
That should be all due to my banana sized shaped remainder of one that is.
Started my gallstone preventative medication today that will be for life, unless my gallbladder gets removed for some reason then no need.
Also the same medication prevents liver diseases, a twofer.
Odd burning sensations come and go, must remember to take my Pepcid, but Nexium is all gone!
Another day of not accomplishing, saving up my energy for the week ahead, three days scheduled so far.
Room for more.
Haircut, evaluation for outpatient PT and to my internist, yep three so far.

Itchy where healing too, I know that is also common.
I will not scratch, I will not scratch, I will not scratch!
Pulling tugging just handing things to Hubby, itty bitty ouch!
Nice to be able to go to the restroom unaccompanied as well as shower as much as I desire!
The hospital had me call the nurse for everything!
Nightmare last Saturday night when one nurse thought she was helping with prune juice, that worked too fast and too well!

FREEDOM IS MINE!
CHOICES ARE MINE!
Remember when you vote that is true too!

On this note of more nothingness, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Nothing exciting

Quietness and sheer boredom prevailed today.
Except my extreme tiredness.
Normal thigh pain of burning and twisting, but earlier than usual.
Ice packs not cutting it, but thankfully sporadic.
Odd day of continuing stretching exercises in bed.
Toes, feet wiggled, tightened buttocks, arm reaches and rotate.
Still have those weird fingertip staccato spasms, especially when using touch screens.
They cause words to be misspelled, ha.
Living in a parallel universe, ha, as in a science fiction TV show.
Did start to watch one though, a not too new one, Roswell.
I have run out of my idea of fun ones.
Anyone out there have any suggestions for Netflix streaming?
But the way I have been going I might have already watched all of  its seasons.
No harm no foul though still open to all suggestions.

Something to be said for same ole same ole, comforting in a familiar way.
Soon we will be going out to enjoy what Southwest Florida has to offer for the fall and winters here, they are abundant with things to do.
This coming week I hope to get in a haircut; bangs are hanging too low, over the eyebrows, need neatness and the attention of a stylist!
A girl feels so good after, ya know?
Too bad no out to eat for about another three months minus eleven days, ha!
A social event was how we did enjoy that, shopping too.
While in the hospital though possibilities for fun went through my mind, once well to join a choral group, good for the lungs and I had belonged to one for seven years as a child, fifth through eleventh grades, and find a writer's workshop, and get my post bariatric surgery support group started.
All worthy ideas, and also was going to see what the local college has to offer seniors of sixty-five in the way of classes, since the courses can be audited for free!

All worthwhile concepts and so I will investigate.
Once I get a handle on all these necessary doctors' appointments.

Meanwhile, I will try harder to feel better more often than not...(Ridiculous! Not up to me, wish it was...)

On that note or multiple possibilities allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and kindly count all of your blessings and share all of those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!


 

Friday, October 28, 2016

Seriously lost 16 lbs. in ten days, yay!

This extreme weight loss project appears to be working!
The bariatric gastric sleeve.
Still on what is referred to as a liquid diet, but includes soup and decaf, as well as sugar free fat free JELLO and puddings, as well as my protein shakes. Purees start next Wednesday, YAY!
The key is high protein and low carbs.
I even lost eleven pounds prior to surgery on that above diet, but was horrified to find out I gained back seven LBS. after, all until I was reassured it was only due to swelling, and IVs I was very worried!
Then at home the first day I had lost all that plus more, just yesterday, and today a pound and a half more.
So at this rate I could meet my goal of thee ole me, very soon, yay!
Let's get this straight for all of you out there who think to go this route without trying the norm of diet and exercise, don't.
Unless you too have for ten years or too many years to think this is an easy out... it is major surgery, although laparoscopic.
Still four, make that five holes in my abdomen staples in four to hold them close and the fifth had been where my drain had been, without staples but for three days a drain similar in size to a hand grenade but clear plastic.

Today, I had my staples removed and was asked about pain meds, none for me since post hospital for three days with that pump gizmo, a week ago!
I switched to ice packs, and with my mostly numb tummy from my Multiple sclerosis everyone was amazed I was pain free! Huh, I am numb, why do most not get that?
No slight of hands or tricks at all just my usual nummies!
Also, my bariatric doc was concerned because I was written up as a fall risk and could not understand how I was out of PT so soon.
Simple I have been a "fall risk" since 2009, nothing new there, and I dazzled, okay they used the word impressive, my OT and PT people with what I could do, that's all!
It seems the MS factor had been forgotten with this whole procedure.
No one listened when I said I am numb in my tummy, thighs, and tushy, arms are getting there; great for my Copaxone shots and apparently for bariatric surgery!
Again folks this was not done for me to miraculously run a marathon, but to get me off meds like, blood pressure, cholesterol, GERD, thyroid, get rid of the CPAP for sleep apnea, and fear of type 2 diabetes which has been hovering for seven years in that pre form.
And I am proud to say my GERD medication is gone, next will be my blood pressure, since it has been very low with the smaller amount I have been on for the last couple of years, who knows what will be next but I am hopeful.
And it's not a money thing since all that crap is covered by insurance, it's the principle of the thing, nah the reasoning of too much legal junk in the bod, ya know?
Not that I am one of those don't touch my "temple" types, truthfully its been years since I went, bud, dump bum...but seriously folks who needs for all of that stuff with me being more selective and tweaking what's really needed is how I am trying hard to be overall better, as good as I can get!
You too I am more than sure.
Edit, edit, edit!
So many things in life.
They tried a couple of new meds and I nixed all but two due to logical practical need, the triglyceride one, mine have been unhealthily high for way too long so I accepted this trial, but the narcolepsy/jet lag one just made me more hyper, even my PT commented, so nixed, and also the nausea med, because I am not, but the preventative gallstone one was approved of to begin on the pureed diet and beyond, for life I have been told.

More daily news filled.
The weekend is coming and although a lot is going on we need to chill, Hubby's reaction to that virus went into his GI track and so he is resting somewhat while waiting on me. I do try, folded some clothes made him real coffee today, did some dishes, trying...
While he drove us to Venice for my appointment and has delivered all of my meals.
Sharing, not evenly, but who's counting really!

On this note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night  and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! 
 

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Doctor called, yep himself!

First he accused me of harassing his staff???????????????
I caught him right away with that ridiculous accusation!
He had insisted that after my surgery was over that I agreed to come to every appointment.
Sure, but I did not have one for today prearranged and I was nearly out of my monthly delivered six thousand dollar, insurance pays for it, but for emphasis it wasn't necessary to add, MS medication that has to be signed for as well as refrigerated, and the signing was initiated when UPS delivered it a while back to a neighbor who had no idea what to do with it!
And it was decided two weeks ago for todays delivery and at the time I was not told I would definitely being going into PT rehab after surgery Friday, nope, it was NOT definite!
He claimed it was.
Hubby was there and said no it wasn't either.
Meanwhile, he did apologize for the "harassment" comment. I held my temper and just had said it was way too harsh, and I  asked if that is what his people said? He said no, it was his word.
I never got into the 24/7 availability question or why his coordinator never calls back when she says, "I will call you back"!
Anyway, I have two appointments now, one for having my staples out, tomorrow with his nurse Mary, and his PA Andrea, and then in three weeks to see him.
He has surgery tomorrow and Monday and then a medical conference in New Orleans, poor dear.
I told him we were there just last year and to take a break to enjoy himself, he deserved it.

Meanwhile Hubby and I have some type of viral nasty going on that we caught in the hospital.
He is taking Coricidin HBP, cold medication safe for high blood pressure.
And since I am on too much medication, pureed chicken soup, Vicks vapor rub with vaporizer and on my nose and chest i.e. Vicks, also my CPAP with breathing issues, as well as my Simply Saline to cleanse my nostrils, and my Anoro Ellipta for my asthma was helpful this morning, it does seem respiratory. In  the hospital my oxygen levels were going up and down and so I had oxygen available to use as well as two medication respiratory treatments by the respiration therapist.

The day here was one of being in bed for me, and Hubby in his easy chair since Gus, our rescue Havanese Shitzu mix, demands his attention, 24/7 and yes that is accurate, ha!
Gus does have his own bed in our bedroom on the floor on Hubby's side, but that is for nighttime.
My side has too many rolling type equipment, so rather dangerous for him.
Oddly enough, when Hubby lowered (it amounted to a total of eight inches) our king-sized bed by removing the box springs, yes two twins is what they seem to use with king mattresses, at least as long as we had moved up from our queen back in 1987.
Now at only twenty-two inches from thirty it appears a bit too low, even for a shorty like me, but oddly enough Gus has not tried to jump up on it, hmm?
My concern was his issue with being disturbed and viscous when awoken and also being his delayed grooming, not by us but the groomer due to their open house when originally scheduled, see I am flexible with times, on his grooming and needing it bad, and my tummy still slightly sore, but not to the point of pain meds, none since last Friday on the machine! None of that crap otherwise known as hydrocodone,that we filled prior to surgery when warned it would be very painful after, but I must be pretty tough since I haven't had an issue.

With the box springs too high, and now too low, oh well...
Maybe, eventually I will not have a stretchy tummy problem eventually and the bed could go back together or Hubby could make us the platform one I showed him online with the drawers underneath! He has been able to make things I showed him before, great guy!

We seem to be caught up now, and I am breathing okay, I did have an incident where I thought I was choking today, thus my reasoning for the CPAP during the day and it worked.
It's the contraption for sleep apnea, which is supposed to be gone for good soon too...waiting.

On this note of it is what it is allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of  your blessings and share all of  your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear! 

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

24/7?

My Venice surgeon proudly added in a flyer stating that he is available 24/7 that had been enclosed in his "package" prior to my surgery, but I have called four times tonight and no answer not even a service or recording!
When leaving my local hospital I was given the list of my doctors that I should contact for follow-up appointments and they were:
My internist for a new triglyceride med I was given in the hospital with only a thirty day supply.
My bariatric surgical doc for a follow-up post surgery, but when called they had only two choices for me tomorrow and I said no due to my Copaxone being delivered and it is refrigerated and must be signed for and was ordered nearly two weeks ago and I am almost out, or eight A.M. on Monday to Venice, I think not! Hubby will not get up at six to leave at seven and they even knew that. I was told that she would call back, but when she hadn't I did, thus my questioning of, why no one was answering there and still isn't, since I just tried again?
My hematologist, who we had already made an appointment with next month so she was not called again.
And lastly, my neurologist just because they always seem to add him into my loop, and yes I will call after these others are decided.
My general surgeon for the blood filter was not mentioned, but I do have another office visit set with him in less than a week, prior to my sixty days till removal that begun the countdown on October fourteenth!

Hubby and I and my last roommate at the last hospital all have identical coughs, so it can't be a coincidence.
Nasal drip and a bronchial horrid cough with sore throat appears to be the symptoms!
My low grade fever is back and very slightly higher, 100.2.
 I had told the bariatric surgical doc's office that I was very tired when I had spoken to their "coordinator", Leslie, earlier today, who had said she would call back, still waiting, well not really since I have tried them four times now!

Perhaps, 24/7 doesn't mean what it used to?
I don't know maybe their clocks are set differently than ours?
Okay, or they meant only certain 24/7's in the week, only known to them?
Like 24/7, Monday through Tuesday, but not Wednesday through Thursday, and then again on Friday through Saturday, but not Sunday, just every other? See with alternating Sundays it does tally out sevens...
Or a code meaning something entirely different?

Any-who, I suppose I have all day tomorrow to figure it out and call them again and try hard not to be sarcastic or snide while trying hard to get to the bottom of this!
Two reasons I believe that we could not come to a meeting of the minds beside the ones I mentioned in my mind and Hubby's it seemed silly to go up there now when I have to wait ten to fourteen days to get those twenty somewhat shiny staples out of my tummy! Today it was eight since the nineteenth, right? Two more would be Friday for ten or Tuesday for fourteen. Although, Leslie said the doctor would be going on vacation that is why. Am I getting the bums rush, not fair!
I am his patient client customer and we are ALWAYS RIGHT! RIGHT?
Oh well, he seemed so nice, maybe I should wait till tomorrow to find out if I have misjudged him...or not!

We will see what we will see, I hope.

On that note of what, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Going home tomorrow!

I shined again today, which apparently is a criteria for getting to go home! Yay! Independence! Home!
Gus!
My own lowered bed by Hubby, great guy!
My larger techno device!
Had a Big muscle pull tonight on my way to the bathroom, scarily my nurse call buttons were just out of reach in either direction. So I yelled, sort of, into the hallway while straddling my walker's seat.
Got help and completed my bathroom task, and now I am situated comfortably in bed with my ice pack waiting for an earlier gabapentin arrival.

TTYL, good night for now.
Home soon!

Monday, October 24, 2016

Slight low grade fever 99.9

Coughing and sniffling.
Hope it has no effect on the meeting tomorrow of me being released!
I was told that my PT acumen was "impressive", today even going thirty feet!
Tired, good night!
TTYL!

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Four days post surgery

And doing okay!
Doc was just here from my regular doc's office, Dr. Hayes, another NYC gal, is honest, concise, funny and encouraging! But only an in house hospital doc, oh well.
She did report my labs look good.
Although, my triglycerides are a bit high.
So a little tweaking with a med for that. My PT Dr. Jen has been experimenting with a medication for me to energize me for PT. We so far have tried the lower dosage of 100 mg., and Wednesday he's doubling it to 200 mg. It's used for narcolepsy , jet lag etc.
Any-who, that's all for tonight!
Good night, TTYL!

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Still not able to eat much!

Guess this is the secret they don't tell you about after gastric sleeve surgery!
It should work!
I am full of air!
No, seriously the surgeon fills the remainder of the banana sized stomach with air to allow it to be filled with beneficial foods and nutrients, but it's post surgery day four!
So it burps out!
And so far not much has gone in!

Any-who, I had PT and OT and my five incisions staples have another ten days until they will be taken out!

TTYL
Good night!

Friday, October 21, 2016

Arrival back closer

To the hospital nearby our home, less than two miles away.
They have an in-house rehab and I could be seventeen days or more or less!
Hopefully less.
Everyone here is so friendly.
I arrived via Ambulance, so cool, not! But it was only a 24.7 mile trip from the Venice hospital to this one.
And it did take the same for them as for us, about an hour!
Vindicated!
Tomorrow let the games begin!
PT!
PT!
PT!

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Here after surgery

Looks like I will spending time on an in-hospital PT facility after all, pissed!

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Up very early!

And I am not sure if it's due to nerves or excitement  or probably both.
Gathering things I have to bring, my CPAP, for one, trying to get it to go back into its lovely case! It is somewhat of a puzzle.
Oh well, Hubby is better at them than I, so I suppose I will leave it for him on the dinette table.

Certain medications need to be taken before we go; I can take just three prescriptions in pill form, and one injectable, my Copaxone and my Anoro Ellipta, an asthma inhaled medication that also will be coming with me as well as my emergency inhaler. Eye drops with too, check! Even my Walker is needed for me tonight to get out of bed, I was told. My Ride will be in my room too. So much to do and not forget!

I did write it down on my cute kitchen blackboard Hubby and I made years ago, with blackboard paint and wooden letters that say, Bon Appetit! It was made to be used for shopping lists, but it has been handy for so many other notations.

Got up about a quarter to three, not too terrible. I figure this way I will be out, out for the surgery and real tired when the post surgery pain sets in, weird logic but it has worked before!
I will have an IV line that has a setting, low I assume to allow me to have as much or as little of the heavy duty narcotic pain medication that I will need, no over dosing I presume. Scary, even so.
Hope it doesn't become a problem. Hubby has picked up the oxycodone for home pain, only five mg. and forty pills, no refills, really good!
Don't want to do my own version of Breaking Bad, ha!

That's all for now; will write more if I can later!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Anxious

 Nothing like making a new experience have a bit of drama, hmm?
Surgery is at a human can-do allotment time for Hubby, originally it was even better getting to the hospital by ten A.M. for a twelve o'clock surgery, leaving here at eight thirty due to traffic causing a twenty-six mile ride that could take anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half!
When the coordinator Leslie first called she said that the surgery would be at nine A.M. instead and that we had to be there two hours before at seven and that would mean leaving here at five thirty!
Hubby grumbled loudly in the background and I tried to explain his distaste of the earlier hour, they had no idea. Due to having me take forever to get into the van with my ride and getting out etc. and Gus our rescue Havanese not feeling well, a tummy ache that Hubby insists will pass, but it takes him a while to go and he will be alone for hours and traffic causing this drive to take too long, yada, yada, yada...forgive!
So Leslie kindly said, "let me see what I can do; I'll call you back"... When she did she said how about an eleven fifteen surgery and getting here at nine A.M. and then I said thank you!
That means leaving here at seven thirty, absolutely doable!

I am leaving my laptop/notebook home, but I will have my phone with me that was capable of allowing me to write and publish my blog from it as it did allow me while the notebook was at its techno doctors for all those weeks a couple of months ago, in for a new motherboard and battery.
Actually, I have no idea how I will be feeling to do my blog, so this might be my last blog for a couple of days; I hope not!

Love to all, be well and check out my new support group that I am trying to start, it is on my homepage with access to its page.
It's due to me not finding a local one for those who had bariatric surgery and I really don't want to commute to the only one I can find miles from here and is held either in the evening or Saturday morning, convenient for many but... this would be more so. How hard could it be, I used to be co-president of our arthritis one for about four years.

On that note of hope, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Monday, October 17, 2016

Action is in play!


The time is near.
In less than forty-two hours I will be on the way to having a life changing surgery, bariatric sleeve.
One might ask what should I expect from this particular surgery?
For me it is not for vanity, but for health purposes that is why most all do have it, and the reason why I am going through this, I had gone from a BMI of 19 to one of 40!
Hopefully it will succeed in doing what else I feel it should.
No more GERD, or high blood pressure, sleep apnea, or fear of type 2 diabetes that I have held at bay now for seven years with being pre-diabetic.
Also to get to the bottom of why my liver is enlarged, is it due to the obesity or something more ominous? If enlarged losing weight is the cure, and if another problem I will know what it is and what to do or if not to find out what can be done.
Biopsy is pending on the liver, as is the small hiatal hernia's necessity to be repaired; the doctor will decide while in me, laparoscopy-wise.
I will have my answers and that will be very helpful to know what has to be done or not to continue on this extreme health plan.
Living longer than my parents is my goal; neither ever reached the age of eighty.
But I want to attain that ripe old age and beyond!
MS does not preclude aging, since life expectancy is the same as for the general population, although the quality of life is iffy.
And that is another reason why I am trying for the betterment for me; not any different from anyone else.
I refuse to give up!

As I sit in my bed sipping my chicken broth and slurping my flat club soda and looking forward to my sugar free JELLO, orange flavored dessert I ponder why I had not asked Hubby to pick up lobster tails last night for my last meal, ha!
Too late now!

On that lighter note, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Subway!

The take out sub and salad place not the underground mode of transportation, rounded out my eclectic food interests for the probable last stop in my farewell tour.  
Double seafood over salad with everything!
Leftovers too.

Might be my last meal for months, over three months till solid food again, thirteen weeks!
Yes, it seems for the next few days I will be on a clear liquid diet then surgery!
Then liquid diet for a few weeks then blenderized for another few then small chunks then lastly whole pieces somewhere after the holiday season, yup, that's when I will "see food" again.
Irony is why I had "seafood" tonight, get it, kidding!

Removed  my over sized bandage today over my jugular vein on my neck where my blood filter was inserted.
Much to my surprise and relief the "scar" was miniscule and needed no medical intervention, topical medication or bandage! 
Pain has nearly gone away too.
Clear sailing I hope from now on.
This is going to be one life changing week!

Tired again.

But will end on this up note, and now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Saturday, October 15, 2016

"Never spit against the wind."

Yes! The farewell tour continues with fortune cookies happy endings from China City, was where Hubby went for our dinners tonight.
He ordered for himself a PUPU platter and I had the steamed Chinese vegetables with shrimp, no rice.
I really thought the title deserved an exclamation point, but it had a period instead, more telling and more defiant!
Sure I agree with its content, since it would not only be foolish, but quite unsanitary too!
Metaphorically though I suppose it has more to do with not looking a gift horse in the mouth, again, or not? You decide.
I did receive two and the other was, are you ready, "Service to many leads to greatness." Oddly political; how interesting that the ancients believed that, and we Americans would LOVE that to be true. Oops I ate my cookies, taboo! For shame on me! Just a couple of days left till surgery and the prep is the same as for that horrid colonoscopy, actually the colonoscopy isn't the bad part the prep is.

Hubby's first one, fortune, sounds redundant, i.e. "first one", "Sift through your past to get a better idea of your present." Freud in  the room? It seems that was always his goto reasoning, ha!
Hubby's second, "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Another that I thought deserved an exclamation point, such a truism in my book, yours too I suspect.

Fun, fun, fun, wherever you can get it, hmm?

Moving on...

I had a rough night and almost thought I was a victim of my filter, painful sleep but no fever.
Still a quite a bit sporadically today and so I have been using my iced packs full tilt and instead of just two for my thighs that burn and twist always as my cute side effect of the MS, now for my neck and right side of my chest.
Fortunately they send you home with a list of all possible problems.
What did I say?
FORTUNATELY!
Oh well, I am  wary and cautious even though the only way back from this point of no return would be emergency surgery to remove it after it does damage, if not too late.
Hubby has been given instructions on notifying any or all class action suits if it does!
Crazy?
Nah, just feel I was backed into a corner health wise; another case of damned if you do and damned if you don't, you know.
 
Anyway, I figure just a couple of more days till surgery, bariatric sleeve and the injectable blood thinners and so if... it has to come out it can then.
   

Friday, October 14, 2016

Denali Vena Cava Filter!

Just got home from getting my blood filter installed!
The Venice Hospital was wonderful and cautious more cleaning of me and MRSA testing!
Doctors and anesthesiologists were very helpful and discussed the fact that I was probably given too much morphine and when I come back next week for the sleeve surgery they will adjust my meds accordingly, and since I will be there a few days it will be regulated!
Big bandage on my right side of my neck where the filter was installed and I cannot shower till Sunday!
Hard for me, being a daily shower gal.

Anyway tired now and Hubby is making a small dinner.
Good happy night all!
TTYL!

Thursday, October 13, 2016

"Alea iacta est", Latin for, "The die is cast", attributed to Julius Caesar, January 10 49 B.C.

The meaning of the above statement is reaching the point of no return, for Caesar it was as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy.
For me it is my two surgeries that too have reached the point of no return, that is; I am committed and so are all medicos or perhaps I should be committed afterwards? Ha.
I have been questioned by the hospital nurse to verify all medications, allergies and previous surgeries.
My time to go in for the first one, surgery, has been verified and is very near.
Interesting how the derivation of so many quotes and expressions are utilized in  modern times?

There is a certain type of soap, Hibiclens, an antiseptic skin cleanser, that you must use the night before for surgeries these days. It is also used for doctors before surgery for their hands and open wounds and such, although it says if gotten in the eyes or ears to flush with water immediately! Can cause irritation... and me with sensitive skin.
Is this a new thing?
I bet it prevents those nosocomial infections?
I have no issue with that at all.
But the night before even when you are someone who showers in the morning too?
I guess that is a good thing?

Enough already!
I have got to stop worrying about everything!
That Serenity Prayer changing things you can and accepting things you can't and knowing the difference, paraphrased. I was using it for years before I found out it was used most often for people with addictions in recovery programs, who knew, I was fairly naïve about those things, not young by any means though, by then in my forties.
I was in a locker room with my seniors while changing out of wet bathing suits after I had taught my Aquacise class the sports rehab and one of my seventy-five-ish students told me.
All I knew is I had heard it somewhere and it had become my sort of Mantra for dealing with losing both of my parents the decade before, four years apart.
Funny how that seems to help me so often in life.
Decent words to live by, exact quote here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer

On that note, of never too old to learn and twenty years later I still am, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS Orange Frothy Haired Guy own up to the truth!
Step down from the race and try hard to regain your sanity before you reach the point of no return, oh wait Alea iacta est is here; it's too late! So sorry, continue... the end is near!
 

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Hematologist's report

The doctor concurs that I do have a clotting issue that is not hereditary, and it has to do with the possibility of deep vein thrombosis or arterial thrombosis, being genuine threats to me.
Although, there is controversy over the blood filter she also agreed that for sixty days that it would be safe, and so it will be installed when originally scheduled.
As far as my liver enzymes go I forgot to ask her, the hematologist, but the bariatric doctor had said if he felt it was necessary he would do the liver biopsy while in there (me).
The high end of the liver enzyme scale was 32 and mine was 49 that is the alt (sgpt) too high, meaning my liver or kidneys are involved.
I will also be on shots for anti-coagulates for about a month, starting in the hospital and home after, self given premeasured injections.
The blood test that was taken could be a false positive, and it must be repeated twelve weeks after the first, which was August 22, so next month I will have the same tests again.
Meanwhile, all that is being done is right according to what needs to be done as per the four of the doctors..., vascular surgeon, general surgeon, bariatric surgeon and the hematologist, that I had seen for pre-op testing.

After we left there we went to a new restaurant at Fisherman's Village called Scotty's Brewhouse, originating out of Indiana where there are many more, it has a very industrial décor.
Hubby had a bacon cheese burger with a side of macaroni and cheese, and I had their black and bleu salad, steak, bacon, avocado, romaine, cherry tomatoes, bleu cheese with bleu cheese dressing, a high protein low carb meal! Not dissimilar to Atkins.
We both had iced water with lemons.
The prices were average.
The food was good and I brought a bit of mine home.

Afterwards we were going to look around, but although it is a covered location a freak unexpected storm was ominously threatening, so we headed towards our car and made it back just before the rain got too heavy, and we were safely inside the car for the drive home!
Good thing we had the umbrellas as well as my poncho in the car, so we were dry entering the house.

Inclosing on this updated note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Modesty be damned!

This last month my viewership has tripled!
Usually I would have about a thousand people reading this drivel monthly, but
this month so far I have had three thousand plus!
What happened some might ask?
Well, it's not likely that after eight and a half years people just discovered me, or maybe that is the case, but actually I think it is has more to do with whom I care to share this with, and yes it is a personal decision. I expanded my horizons.
Daily, my readership has increased to an average of over two hundred!
Before then about a tenth of that.
If I only knew sooner, huh?
An increase from 72k to 75k+ just this month for total years alone!
Exponentially could that have been three quarters of a million?
Gosh, the concept is staggering.
I do love that I reach so many.
Only issue is that I have with all this attention is that it creates an enormous responsibility to write something of value.
Nothingness is my forte, what can I say; it worked for Seinfeld. I know that I am NO Seinfeld!
Unless fired up on a my soapbox about a  worthy cause or an injustice I live a rather tame life!
But his show never really did, did it?

My feelings about the delusions that the Orange Frothy Haired Guy has are frightening to most rational Americans, thankfully.
What makes me question many of my country's persons is when an average looking woman on the heavy side is for the Guy?
If she were to meet him with his misogynistic unrealistic value put on women to him she would be all he finds distasteful on his crude scale of 1-10, this woman who spoke would definitely be on the lower end of his concept of what beauty is, that is by using what he has said as a ruler, than why vote for him? I would be as disgusting as any of his horrid comments about woman who are fat short disabled and old, that's me!
Why even consider someone so shallow and crass?
But there is this regular woman being interviewed, by the news, not in a commercial, she was just so enthusiastic and so determined to vote for him and I am baffled.
He promises nothing specific to be done.
Oh well, I have given him more time than I had promised ever to do.
I have more questions than answers.
To me I think he will finally go off the deep end when he loses.
I feel badly for his family having to contend with him when that happens after Hillary wins!
Not too though.
(Gosh did I say that out loud? Ha!)
Sure I did.
Till tomorrow...

 

Monday, October 10, 2016

Sleeping can be tricky!

Sleep is a commodity our bodies crave for regeneration of cells.
As babies we adjust to the need, and eventually find our groove to keep our young parents sane and non-sleep deprived.
When we grow into teens again we need that extra bit for growth.
By the time we become young adult to middle age many squander the need for more "important" things to do; from studying to partying to playing to working too hard!
And by the time we become that certain age of so-called wisdom, again we sleep to go on, and our needs vary from very little to thinking we have none due to napping sporadically as if a baby once again!
I have rounded the curve to the point of sporadic awake/asleep-ness.
Confused body clocks are not unusual in older people; not unlike infants.
It would seem that is where I have arrived.
I am a babe in dreamland, more often nightmares!
Why would an adult not dream at all mostly?
In truth it is a rarity to dream good or bad.
But the ones that seem the most vivid do awaken me, sometimes out of deep sleep!
Without the desire to return to slumber-land.
Not out of fear, but out of trying to figure out the whys.
I bought a book years ago telling what symbolically your meaning of your dream/nightmare could be, and the weird part was it never meant what you thought it did according to that book.
Interpretation is then possibly what you thought, huh?
Sometimes a banana is just a banana, ya know?
HA!
Any-who, life goes on...
And we must all realize that we and they will be here or somewhere after this election, your choice; so vote! We did, via mail-in. (Florida just got a day extension on registration until five o'clock this Wednesday 10-12-16! The Democratic party sued for an extension due to the hurricane.)
A dream or a nightmare will come true.
Just another thought to keep you sleeping peacefully like a baby or unsettling like a grumpy old gal!



 

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Disaster keeps creating havoc, debate not a debate, but a town hall

Although Hurricane Matthew is no longer a hurricane it is still causing awful deadly flooding in its more than northern path that it was not supposed to do! More deaths more devastation.

The Clinton vs. Orange Frothy Haired Guy round two bout sure is purported by soothsayers to be one heck of a free entertainment package tonight, 9P.M. EST!
Guy and Hill promise to go down in history as the oddest couple ever to run against one another!
Neither have full support of our nation, sadly.
Experience though over imbecility shall win the trial of so many errors!
Hill can do great on peoples Q&A off the cuff from memorized stats, notes, research and absolute originality when wowing the crowds with her knowledge !
Guy knows nothing and goes on the defensive as soon as someone disagrees with him, he is famous for being quoted as saying, " I never said that", statement while staring into the videos proving the contrary!
Lying is his friend-enemy.
Calm resolute is her absolute resolve and strength.
He has been asked to step down by many of the GOP bigwigs.
She has been endorsed by many of his previous GOP supporters as well as the Democrats that she beat out in the initial trials to get to this point to become the candidate.

Should be a nice distraction from the physical natural disasters that have been occurring.

Hope I can stay awake for the whole thing, we all should.

SNL came through last night, good for them finding the lighter side to an abomination of a political race to the White House!
Satire is still refreshing! 

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Third party info not the most reliable...in

...telling you all about how severe Hurricane Matthew was to Florida is not as accurate from me as from those actually who went through it.
I am what most would consider third hand, since my information has been gleaned from the TV or internet, not from being there!
As intelligent people we all know that information is only as good as its source is knowledgeable, true?
So from my vantage point hundreds of miles away from the actual occurrence is not any different than out of stators or dare I say those in other countries or planets, like yourselves, perhaps?
I do try.
But unless you are part of what is going on; Geez, it's not the same, really!
Not reliable is a bit too extreme for what I have tried to tell everyone.
Seriously, though folks we all have access if we can change channels, turn on a radio, or our techno devices and so my point is that you all are as informed as I am about this Hurricane Matthew.
Sadly, the devastation was more than we thought so grasp what you can... it was not a ploy by the Democratic Party Liberals!
It was and is bad, and will take a very long time to comeback from this assault on our state and Georgia's, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean.
Deaths tolls are way too many; upwards of over a thousand there now I bet, here in Florida six people, so I was told/read.

Moving on...

Looking forward to tonight's SNL should be interesting with the Orange Frothy Haired Guy's latest historic foot in mouth disorder being dug up from the archives!
He is an ass and so mentally unstable that so many of his GOP buddies are FINALLY realizing how dangerous he would be if he ever, G-d forbid, did win the election and they have been disinviting him and not supporting him...Please folks don't let him become elected!
Guess though it's getting harder to lay a humorous spin on his totally absent ability to think compassionately about others before he spews his comments with his ludicrous foul mouth over the top suggestive verbal raping of women. He should be arrested, since he did admit to not just verbally but physically assaulted them too! (Groping? Not a star quality that I know of!)
Every minority, including us women he has hated for one stupid reason or another, but I do believe that we women are like fifty-two percent compared to men being forty-eight percent of our American population, so not in the minority? So vote against him and we can take him down! YAY!
Solution, problem solved!

Disgusted. 
 

Friday, October 7, 2016

Southwest Florida as well as the rest of the Gulf Coast were unscathed by Hurricane Matthew!

As predicted he did not come here, so we were unscathed.
And for a good part of the southeastern part of our state of Florida he did not seem to hit as hard  as was expected, since Matthew's hurricane force winds stayed off shore.
Yes, most of the way up the east coast until Merritt Island/Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral north where the aftermath of the damage seemed to begin with trees downed, a bit on the homes and cars damaged, some roofs, water intrusion etc.
Storm surge could reach upwards of eleven feet in the Jacksonville area.
As many as 600,000 homes were and most likely are still without power.
Three deaths have been blamed in Florida on the hurricane.

Horrifically the count continues to rise in Haiti, last count was well over eight hundred!

Hurricane Matthew is now a category two system with still impressive 110 mph winds heading to Savannah Georgia, and then onward to the Carolinas, as it slowly goes down in strength, a one, and once there turns south once more to turn onto a tropical storm with forty mph winds...heading west, possibly back to Florida by Tuesday!

Moving on...

Sure we looked silly as the only ones with shutters up on our street, but we are one of the few homeowners who knows where they are kept, bud dump bum...But seriously folks,
many are renters and that I believe would be up to their landlords to do... if they were at all concerned.

Joan (old school chum): decided to fly into Savannah yesterday, I imagine for a vacation, but kiddo that's where the storm is heading, be safe!

Our younger son and his wife do live on the south east coast of Florida and thankfully it was not as bad as expected.
Facebook friends live there too, as well as my cousin who is my birthday twin same month, day and year, and so worry was plentiful, and most would not budge... oh well, at least nothing happened, hmm?

WHEW!
Matthew's wrath is not done so let the prayers begin!

GOUGERS Behave,  $10 a gallon for gas, hotels tripling their pricings, water bottle cases for thirty bucks, SHAME ON YOU! 1-866-9-NOSCAM to report in Florida gouging, its of course illegal, gouging that is! Report them!

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Hurricane Matthew!

Hurricane Matthew is still over the Bahamas, just over Freeport on a heading with south east Florida, and yes it did increase from a category 3 to a 4 again, currently 140 mph winds with 165 mph gusts!
We are only on a tropical storm watch and even so we do have rain bands attributed to the hurricane and winds from 15-40 mph here on the south west Gulf coast of Florida.
Hubby squelched my concerns and did shutter our home.
He also had gotten our car gas tank topped off and our additional 5 gallon gas cans filled for the generators if the power were to go out, even without hurricanes it does happen way too frequently!
If not used for this, we can use it for the lawn mower or even to put into the car's tank, no big deal.

Confusing, and worrisome since not all hurricanes do what the knowledgeable meteorologists predict, see it is scientific but like doctors who practice, meteorologists predict!
Not an absolute.
Now that should be how you get what I am saying ever since Hurricane Charlie took that last minute right turn into us when predicted to go one hundred miles to our north I get antsy with these major storms!
Most who went through it get it.

So far most of our east coast waterfront counterparts  that were told to evacuate dutifully did.
Many remember Katrina 2005, if they don't recall Andrew 1992.
Somehow devastation sticks with you, unfortunately, or perhaps a teaching experience to learn from.

We have live coverage of what is going on on our east coast when it hasn't come there yet it is quite nasty already with wind and rain bands as us on this coast.

Body bags are even being gotten ready for those who did not evacuate, can you imagine?
Bad, bad, bad storm.
Over one hundred dead in Haiti so we have been informed.
Scary!
Be careful people, perhaps I am silly with my concerns here, since we are "only" in a tropical storm watch zone, but still...
Something to think about, nightmares included.
 

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

MRSA free; and we here on the west coast of Florida are under "only" a tropical storm warning!

Frightfully though for our east coast of Florida is threatened with a category 4 level from Hurricane Matthew!
Wish you all to be safe!
Haiti and Cuba were devastated by Matthew's wrath, the death toll at this writing tonight is at eleven souls.

Next the Bahamas are in the line of fire, we are after that tomorrow night and Friday!

Take all precautions folks!

Northern folks looks as if you may be in luck without a Hurricane Matthew in your future.
The new path appears to have it might be curving back towards Florida as a cat 1 next week, and not making it very far up the east coast perhaps only as far as Georgia and North and South Carolinas' outer banks!

Brevard and Martin counties are being evacuated here in Florida.

Theme parks are waiting to decide what to do in Florida.


Some hurricane supplies to have: (There are so much more)
Water, can opener, flashlights, generator, can foods, pet food, medicines, batteries are a few of the items you should have available oh and that is enough food for at least three days, same for water for each person and pets, gas for generators, and the car in case you have to evacuate, weather radio, etc.
Packing a to go bag wouldn't hurt even one with pillows and blankets. Charge those cell phones and other devices and if you have auto or battery power cords have them handy. When Charley hit back in 2004 only old fashion landlines (wired, not wireless) worked due to the cell towers being blown down.

BE SAFE!
And keep listening and watching all those weather channels!

Good luck!

PS My MRSA test was negative, yay!


 

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Haiti needs our prayers and more than likely aid!

How much can an island nation take, earthquakes, hurricanes, poverty!
So sad.
Contact the International Red Cross, and then call them for your neighbors for Hurricane Matthew is coming here to Florida too within the next couple of days! Then up our US of A coast just like Sandy did but stronger! Be aware and careful our northern friends!
Seven deaths counted as of this writing in the islands, with potential to be more devastating when all is said and done.
We are on the west coast of Florida and seem to be in the clear so far; it is our east coast that is in jeopardy!

Hubby was about to go get gas, and get the shutters ready, but according to our local news from Ft. Myers we are NOT in the cone and the most we will be getting is 10-15 MPH winds, and so more rain, in other words not much at all. So he stopped his preparations mostly.

Number One Son called and although he lives north of Tampa, he too is on the west coast of Florida, and mostly in the clear, over a hundred and fifty miles north from us.

Our son on the other coast is in the danger area and we will be concerned although we have faith in him and his wife's ability to take care, they are smart enough to know not to be cavalier with a real threat!

We all helped after Hurricane Andrew that hit that area way back in 1992, it was a category five hurricane and the devastation was horrendous!

Our eldest helped us after Hurricane Charley got us in 2004.
Seeing any of that sticks in your head no matter what you do to try to shake it!

Let's not forget all the fires out west and floods in the center of our country, Mother Nature is more violent than any bombs can be, it would seem.

And yet we as human beings some how manage to go on... aint we something!

YES!

Our desire to survive is truly amazing.

Nobody said that prayers wouldn't hurt too, try it you might like it.
I have.

www.redcross.org Just incase.


 

Monday, October 3, 2016

Hurricane Matthew's positioning wobbles!

Bad regular storm here now.
Will be fast.
Saw the surgeon that will be putting in the sixty day blood filter in me late next week.
I had called the FDA devices division this morning before we went and spoke with a knowledgeable person there. The temporary ones are not the issue the permanent ones are, but only by 1%, so I feel better about the whole thing.
On our way home we ate at Panera's.
GTG TTYT, Okay!

 PS we are under a state of emergency so the governor can call out the national guard!
We just had a mini outage so see ya!

Sunday, October 2, 2016

I know nothing!

Sure, you say; I can hear you all snickering, not really, but I can only imagine... you all knowing my titled statement rings true about who though, me or you, hmm?
Well, a clean slate in life, an empty vessel to fill, a blank paper?
All except the last seems familiar, hehe.
Nah, me.
As I grow older I find my knowledge is lacking in many arenas.
Missing things.
Parts.
Pieces.
Things many might assume that once we all get to a certain age that we should know all and every obscure thingy in this universe, and perhaps further out...there!
Oh, who might think that?
No one smart enough to know better, true?
Life can shock us, even us whom believe we are savvy, shock proof.
Naiveté is not only a feature of youth, but an attribute of having been protected while growing up on the journey to a ripe old age.
In other words meaning well people surrounding us censoring our very existence with using the pretense of love, caring and concern.
Why?
When being exposed builds character and with that should also mean understanding?
 But wait!
Not me.
I visited VA hospitals as a toddler with my parents to see my brother home sick from war, and was exposed to people missing body and brain parts early on.
I worked in all sorts of professions, went back to college twice after my initial time well spent, to law courses and then later on to medical courses.
I have been a world traveler!
I have worked hard for hour and hours, a ninety-six hour work week, and traveled 3K a month all in the name of labor.
Speaking of that twenty-nine and half of that to deliver our first born... numerous surgeries and losses of babies parents and sibling.
I have lived!
But I do not want to die, yet.
Then why will I allow a well renown surgeon who studied in Beruit install a gadget into me to prevent clots prior to having my stomach basically removed!
Every time I Google the procedure it comes up with class action lawsuits!
I see the surgeon this week and the installation could be the following.
I am very high risk for both surgeries, apparently.
I am a bit frightened by the whole prospect.
But due to my enlarged liver and inability to exercise I am torn...
You know this might sound odd from this agnostic at times, considered a heathen by some, but still a born Jew, but could I have your prayers?
Please, from all of you, it could help...who knows really.
MAY I HAVE ALL YOUR PRAYERS?
PLEASE!
Thank you!

 

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Streaming issue with Netflix!

Funny how the Smart TV has NO issue with Netflix but the laptop does, on hold with them now, Netflix that is; just answered and "they are diligently working on it right now! Keep checking!"
That's what I like articulate and concise!

Did something today that did not involve doctors, oh wait that is not entirely true... we went over to  the hospital that nearly killed me in March to use their lab for an additional pre-op test the bariatric doc gave to me a prescription for Thursday, a MRSA swabbing. Yep since I was in the hospital three times since January even though I did not stay overnight they need this preventative test. Good grief what if I have it and it has been churning in me all this time...WHAT!
I truly doubt it, but apparently this is a requirement with this sort of surgery and its facility, only hope I don't go home with one!
Nosocomial diseases are rampant as we all know in many facilities.
No stone unturned for this particular surgery, and happy for all the precautions, although this one sounds more like I would be the threat to them than them to me, hmm?
After we went up and back about three times through their abundant hallways, from the emergency entrance to the lab and back again, (due to it being Saturday, when I called yesterday they of course told me the hospital lab was open 24/7, so I thought so was registration, oops did I assume, shame on me! Actually it is but not a separate entity as during the week an emergency room takeover on the weekends.)

After that we went on the good-bye tour of places we like to frequent, that is eat there!
Olympia was number one, Bonefish Grill made the list although we had not been before and today was the Cultural Center, yep for lunch, I had soup and fruit and salad and Hubby had pork with mashed potatoes and peas. Actually, I only ate the salad and fruit due to the chicken in broth, not noodle soup, so allowed with veggies, but it seemed too salty to me and Hubby tried it when I asked him to and it was too salty to him too, so I left it.(Not worth returning it, since the center is a non-profit and meals are very reasonable there, so why bother them on something they would have trouble fixing anyway.)
Then we visited the thrift shops there and nothing begged to be taken home so we left to go to our last destination for the day, PUBLIX!
And believe it or not we stuck to our list, even with me there, a rarity!

For dinner Hubby had said earlier before we left the house that he wanted to have ribs from Wally's for dinner tonight, which of course they are a no no for me except in minute quantities so not worth the bother, but I said that he should anyway, and so he did! They now have broiled fish, basa, on their menu so that is what I had with eggplant and Cole slaw, Hubby had his half a rack with a  twice baked potato and also sweet slaw.
Our orders were picked up and brought home and the portions for Hubby were enormous rib wise, so leftovers, my sides were leftover, but not the fish which was portioned just right.
Hubby joked he couldn't find it, to him it was so small!

Reasoning for my good-bye tour of restaurants...
For several months after surgery I will be on a pureed and liquid diet, could be four months or more. And the nurse Mary said, even after I will be eating like only a spoonful of this or that's, so I won't be going out so much, unless I ask for "doggie bags" a lot! I suppose that is doable.

On this note of not another boring day, but not too exciting either, just right... allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all of your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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