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Welcome back Kazz, glad you had a fab holz. I went to the mountains fir a few days, but it never seems long enough. I made a delicious b,b,q, pork loin, homemade coleslaw and tomato, mozzarella salad. For agrees I made these Chec sugar wafers to go with vanilla ice cream. Will have that later, yum!
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Probably was the flight Kaz. You are actually making it worse by drinking so much water. Hot sweet coffee will probably help in the morning or a caffinated soda. If you have high blood pressure contact your Dr in the morning. Keep those feet up and avoid tight socks. Did you drink a lot of alcohol on the flight home? eating is fine but keep the fluids under control till the swelling goes down. Are you diabetic?Dr can prescribe a diuretic if they don't go down on their own.
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No dinner been drinking water all day as my ankles have swelled up like an elephants !!! Am putting my legs up higher than my body but ankles still badly swollen? they should have gone down by now? i reckon it was the flight this has never happened to me before??
Does anyone know how to get rid of water in your ankles?????????
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i dont care for cheaters , male or female . well i washed off all the wood fiber and hydraulic oil and im going to town on ike . id better eat something fast now that ive washed all of that sustainance away .
last time ike conned me into a trip to town i got my a** soaked . good one ike ..
my grandgirl loves me ( and the fudge cookies ) kaz . the grandson pretends to love me for the loud motorcycle . its all good i s' pose ..
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Thanks cap yes i had a good time didnt meet anyone apart from a sleazy spanish guy who was on business there and was stupid enough to take his wedding ring off but it left a tan mark!!!!!! i told him if youre going to cheat on your wife get some fake tan to cover your finger!!!! My only holiday whine was there were too many french there and i hate the french! yeh had a few run-ins with them as they are so damn ignorant but it was great to see their faces when they realised i could speak french! Yeh its the only nationality i hate hate hate!!! I thought i was safe enough going in july as the french take thier holidays in August so i got quite a shock when a huge coach load arrived!
Food was to die for and really cheap tapas every night and as i didnt meet up with anyone i had plenty of money for eating out and shopping! not much else to do when youre on your own?
So next trip Indiana!!!!!!!! and dont worry ill buy you some millk!!
Good youre going to see the grandkids again you should post some photos for us! I never had a granddad which i would have loved to have had, could have explained a few dysfunctional truths about family and saved me a few bob on therapy!!
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sally , i was trying to formulate my own Sumatriptan . evidently zanax , tramadol , and a shot of everclear arent quite the same ..
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glad you had a nice holiday kaz . im going back to see the grandkids on the 26th . ill take kid bike helmets this time , we wont have to sneak around on the rural roads , which up near chicago arent near rural enough to suit me ..
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i guess the worst that could happen is she could be a trasvestasite but really , pretty slim chance of that .
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Captain, my doc put me on Sumatriptan for migraines. They are a life saver!
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thats a good idea b8ta,
not as humorous as fish heads on a stick but considerably more palatable . doc sed i need sugar but i dont think he meant with a spoon outta the sugar bag .
i love milk , just usually too cheap to buy it . ill get some today , these headaches will put you on the ground ..
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Cap not good to see you not eating right? Try a bowl of porridge every morning its great for your health google all the benefits you can have it with milk and honey? personally i dont like it but it has fantastic health benefits and will fill you up until lunch or all day. Here we cook it hot with milk honey and butter!

Cap you need a good woman to look after you make sure youre eating a proper meal everyday!!

What about that nurse with the nice a**??????? ask her out? whats the worst that can happen?
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Dinner tonight is no cooking am still in holiday mode...........so spanish cheese,pimentos,white asparagus,salami,serrano ham and spanish pate with a green salad and balsamic vinegar and spanish olive oil!! yummy! I can pretend im still there??
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Do you drink milk, Cap? I find that a glass of milk before I leave the house in the am, generally at 5, holds me until I can actually think about food.
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i figured the dang headaches out . i cant skip breakfast anymore like i have for virtually all my life . the body fat doesnt exist right now to live on till dinnertime . my customer is a doc , he enlightened me bout hypoglycemia . i choked down some hardees biscuits n stuff on the way
to work yesterday and the headache eased right up .
what a bummer , there are few breakfast items that i care much for .
had a fasting blood test last week and the doc asked me if i was diabetic -- said something was outrageously low , i didnt catch what it was .
ill get something in here for a quick breakfast if its nothing but fish heads on a stick ..
think ill wash off about an inch of hydraulic oil and stump dust and go see my aunt , er , that nurse with the nice looking behind who keeps sneaking me free lunch .. ive eaten better jail food but never served by such a cute old gal ..
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if i fired my caregiver i could end up with a worse one jeanne . headache is just nearly the only side effect of olysio . not a big deal in the grand scheme of things i guess . the old interferon meds would cause depression you never thought possible along with paranoid delusions and phsycosis .
the dam headache exists this morning pre coffee or anything .
at least these meds work . the old stuff had a miserable 35 - 40 % success rate ..
ill go run a chainsaw , thatll settle it down ..
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P.S.S.S... this is with favorite sister. Not oldest one.
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Dinner was simple. Leftover Lean Cuisine from last night's dinner, and one of those microwavable bean and beef burrito. Sis didn't cook rice. I didn't cook rice. I'll eat oatmeal tonight around 11pm to tide me over until tomorrow morning.

I forgot to buy a carton of eggs today, so no eggs for breakfast tomorrow. I guess breakfast will just be salami sandwich. I think tonight I will google Simple recipes for macaroni and tuna. I don't like mayonnaise so I'm going to find alternatives...with lots of onions.

This morning, sis and I had breakfast at a restaurant. She wanted to try their mushroom appetizer. I put some on my plate. My over-medium eggs was very very oily. Her mushrooms were very very oily, and had NO taste at all. I put some blackpepper. Still tasteless. So, I had to put salt. Sis was very disappointed on the tasteless mushroom. I told sis that I may not know how to cook, but I bet I can cook mushroom that would have taste. So...that is my next goal. Look for some Simple recipes to cook mushroom. And then make it for sis. (Today, she bought me a computer chair that cost $88.00. I'm sitting on it right now.) The least I can do is try to cook her favorite food. P.S... Sis couldn't believe that the restaurant also didn't know how to make toast bread.
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the hepc meds notoriously wreck your appetite jean . its always been one of the worst aspects of the treatment battle . one meal every two days has always been normal for me but right now i probable need better nutrition . went from 176 lbs to 161 in 3 months .
very healthy blood numbers . cholesterol , blood pressure , liver numbers of a normal person . im not a total idiot , just lean it out too much sometimes ..
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captain, 1 meals in 2 days of strenuous physical activity? Serious drugs not prescribed for you? Mixed with beer?

I'd say you'd better fire that caregiver and find someone you has your best interests at heart. How would you react if someone treated Edna that way? Heck, how would you react if someone treated Ike that way?

You've been through a tough stretch, and now the goin' is just gettin' good again. Don't blow it now, buddy!
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maybe ill try foregoing all these illicit and prescribed for someone else drugs ive been chomping on . 3 tramadol , 3 zanax , and 3 beers might give a person a bad headache . i guess its worth a try ..
im pretty sure the hepc treatment is a success . aside from the dam headache my energy level is outrageous and the arm , back , and shoulder muscles keep building ..
got to start eating better . one meal every 2 days probably isnt quite enough for the amount of heavy exercise im getting .
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been pouring in the wood cutting and stump grinding hours and the 26th of this month will find me and ike skinnin towards chicago again . ill take bike helmets for the grandkids this time . cook county jail dont sound like a very pleasant place to me .
im interested in taking edna for our country rides again but ill have to ask around and see who i have to kill to make this happen . i think its only been discouraged thus far to help edna settle in and accept the waters nh as her new and probably final home . me and poa are ok again . she pulled a dirty trick on me going partying with her family instead of relieving me on the preagreed upon night . it didnt work . im getting too sharp in the head to be had and realize it hours later .. i see it as its happening nowdays and will stick a wrench in your gears in a skinny minute ..
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mmmmm,
arsenic ..
i have a headache that actually put me on the ground beside my truck for 2 hours today . it wasnt dental , had all that checked out . evidently its those malingering hepc drugs . guess ill ask the va about a possible brain absess since ive had a little ear infection that hasnt really cleared up in months . i dont like to play doc but the more you can tell them about your own symptoms and history , usually the better .
ive eaten both cans of sardines and as it turns out they came from china . never again .. it is not a prejudiced or racist statement to say that chinese manufacturers will sell you deadly poisonous food , its happened all too often .
aunt edna is in nh and doing pretty well considering how late stage her dementia is . she was freezing in the hallway in her wheelchair today so i asked her if shed like to go put on her warm sweater . she said yes but she dont know what to do . i took her to her room , got her warm sweater on her then apologised to the nurse for wrecking her lunch appetite with a donut . nurse said , hon , she so far along she can eat whatever pleases her . i thought that too but didnt want to make enemies with this particular nurse . shes my age and has a nice looking behind . im evil but at least honest about it ..
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Did something *really* silly today - forgot to eat. 2 BPCs (bullet proof coffee) and 1 slice of cheese this morning, and just simply wasn't hungry the rest of the day. Finally, about 5:15, I felt really woozy - dizzy and lightheaded and weak, and couldn't figure out why. (DUH!) Feeling much better now that I've had my grilled cheeseburger, salad and a little cottage cheese!
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Cap, there's arsenic in them apple seeds, you know.
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Dinner tonight was homemade shrimp scampi (no noodles) and Asian chopped salad on the side.
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Ate alone tonight. Tuna salad melt on skinny buns and potato wedges tossed in olive oil, dill weed, parsley, and coarse salt then roasted. I made plenty of those for a future meal. Also had cookies with mini M&Ms that I made last night. Nice!
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i particularily like fried potatos with the skins intact .
i eat apples in a peculiar way , speaking of lazy . i cut it in half and eat apple , skin , core , seeds and all . they are just too troublesome to peel and core to suit me ..
i think the skins are the best part of a baked potato ..
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When I first married Coy his teenage daughters were used to rotating the cooking. The first time they made mashed potatoes and left the skin on I made a separate pan with peeled potatoes. I wasn't going to eat the skins just because they were lazy cooks. Ha! They were great with the skins on and I stopped peeling them myself.

But the skins interfere with mashing if you are doing it with a stand mixer or an immersion blender. I'm thinking of hunting through the stuff stored in the basement to find a potato masher. That old-fashioned non-electric tool handled the peel just fine!
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i never peel potatoes .
im going to eat my boiled chicken tonight . having one or two jaw teeth removed tomorrow . at my age i still have plenty . glad they behaved till the hepc tx was over .
ednas poa is being hateful again . i was ok when i was caring for her mom for 11 months but get bent and leave it to her for a few days and im a sorry dog . its ok . ive learned when someone is screwing with you to carry on without so much as a mean look . it just burns em to the ground .
it takes practice but its a blast after you get good at it . every one in three different agencies knows whos been doing the work . i have nothing to prove to her or anyone ..
ill cook edna some apples tonight and see her before and after work as always ..
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Hi Jeanne,
tonight I am doing russett ones so I will peel. When I do the red ones I leave the skin on. Funny I have never thought about leaving the skins on for mashed even though I do when I bake, fry or scallop. Has anyone ever tried the russett mashed with skins?
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