Subj : Re: Greasy Spoons To : Ruth Haffly From : Dave Drum Date : Mon Apr 07 2025 09:57:00 -=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=- DD> I was having trouble breathing even with the portable O2 pump and DD> didn't have enough energy to suck soda thru a straw. RH> That is some serious breathing issue! Good thing you were already at RH> the doctor's office. DD> Especially since it was a follow-up visit for a hospital stay. I'm DD> back to see him a week from Thursday as a follow up from this past DD> visit.0 RH> Follow up to the follow up? After I had an overnight in the hospital RH> about 10 years ago, I had a follow up with my fairly new (I'd had him RH> as my primary care doctor about a year.) doctor. Steve went in with me RH> as he had some questions, ended up changing to him as his other than VA RH> primary care. Great guy, he took the time to talk with you and draw RH> pictures of what was going on. Fall of 2022 he resigned the practice RH> and is now a campus doctor/instructor at UNC-CH. Hated to see him go RH> but hopefully others have benefitted from his care. Not exactly a follow up to a follow up. Different hospital stay. The first part of the follow-up was, as usual, with an intern/resident/newmy minted physician. SIU Family Practice is part of Souther Illinois University School of Medicine. So there are lots of baby/beginner docs around. The doctor I'm seeing Thursday is also a professor of Internal Medicine. DD> After the round of antibiotics (six hypos in 6 minutes) they fired DD> into me I was breathjing much easier. RH> Any steroids mixed in with the antibiotics? After having trouble with RH> them about 25 years ago, I avoid them as much as possible, usually no RH> longer than a 10 day burst, tapering down each day. DD> They didn't say. There was no prednisone though. They gave me that DD> after I was admitted which I learned after my blood sugar read 326 at DD> the mid- afternoon stick. Prednisone really messes with my BP and DD> glucose readings. RH> That's another reason why I avoid it as much as possible. DD> At 82 I don't make long-range plans. Bv)= RH> But sometimes plans for even a week out can raise conflicts. I've got RH> to call and reschedule an appointment for me in June as Steve has one RH> an hour earlier--both local but don't know if he would be done before RH> mine was to start. DD> Need your hand held? Or some other reason like different locationss? RH> Different locations, cross town. I was able to move mine to the same RH> day, just a couple of hours later. We've been trying to schedule RH> appointments around our planned travel time so it was inevitable we'd RH> end up with a conflict eventually. Easily resolved tho. You have your priorities, they have theirs. When the mesh it's known as serendipity. Bv)= 8<----- CLIP ----->8 DD> Depends on what poochy-pup had been eating for the most part. RH> For the most part his diet was Purina One, dry dog food. He liked RH> popcorn and a lot of "people foods" but didn't get much of those. One RH> thing he didn't like was green peas but he did go for most everything RH> else. He had those big brown eyes that would look so appealing--"feed RH> me, please" that Steve and the girls often snuck him bits of table RH> food. The three living here get a can of Gravy Train every evening and can eat from the well-stocked kibble otherwise. And Jasper and Isobel are AK "Super Mooches" which Dennis encourages. Izzy also licks my plate/bowl if I set it down for her - cleanere than had I washed it in the sink for the most part. Unless I've had General Tso's Chicken. Something in that she turns up her nose at. MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06 Title: Sauce for Fireside's General Tso Categories: Sauces, Oriental, Chilies Yield: 3 Ounce 1 tb Hosin sauce 1 tb Siracha sauce 1 ts Soy sauce 1/4 ts Chili garlic sauce 1/8 ts Ginger paste 1/8 ts Garlic paste This is a sauce we made by experiment to spice up the Riderwood's Fireside Restaurant's General Tso. It could be used on other Chinese dishes as well. It is sweet and hot spicy. Recipe by Dale Shipp Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen MMMMM .... How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200) .