Subj : Re: Greasy Spoons
To : Ruth Haffly
From : Dave Drum
Date : Wed Apr 02 2025 10:15:00
-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-
DD> Things are beginning to settle down .... finally. It's sort of scary
DD> when you go to an appointment with your doctor and he says "I want
DD> you to go to the Emergency Room right now. I'll cal and let them know
DD> what's going on."
RH> That would scare me. No idea why? I would have asked what/why.
I was having trouble breathing even with the portable O2 pump and didn't
have enough energy to suck soda thru a straw.
DD> His prefacing comment was "Your lungs sound like pneumonia". My temp
DD> was 98.1. But even with the O2 set at 6 litres per minute my oxymeter
DD> was running only in the upper 70s.
RH> Sounds like he had good reason for you to hike yourself over to the
RH> hospital. Back in 2001 when I broke my elbow on a Saturday afternoon,
RH> the plan was to put it back together Sunday morning. My O2 level was in
RH> the mid 80s so the pulmonolgy doctor vetoed it, pumped me full of O2
RH> and albuterol over the next 24 hours and surgery was done on Monday
RH> morning. They kept me on O2 and albuterol round the clock (got woken up
RH> at 2 am for breathing treatments) for several more days until they were
RH> happy with the numbers.
After the roun d of antibiotics (six hypos in 6 minutes) they fired
into me I was breathjing much easier.
DD> Would have been nice if he's put me "in the lop" as well. Then the
DD> E.R. told me I'd be in hospital overnight for observation. Which
DD> stretched to a week.
RH> Must have had a lot to look at. (G) Hopefully nothing major planned for
RH> the week so that the time in the hospital didn't conflict with much.
At 82 I don't make long-range plans. Bv)=
DD> I quickly went from "observation" to inmate status. They shot a wad of
DD> antibiotics into me in the ER and that helped with the breathing. Then
DD> the pulmonologists scheduled me for a CAT scan, found a "spot" on my
DD> right lung (damned cigarettes) and set me up for a bronchoscopy. They
DD> were making noises after the procedure about biopsy, etc. Turned out
DD> to not need biopsy so no cancer (phew). But I gat a script for a new
DD> puff dragon (inhaler) in addition to the two I already have. And they
DD> dropped my diabetes meds from my daily list.
RH> Good to hear that the diabetes meds were dropped, not so good to hear
RH> about needing another inhaler. I was switched from Advair (generic)
RH> daily and albuterol as needed to Trelegy last fall, still albuterol as
RH> needed and use a nebuliser at least once a day. It took a while but I'm
RH> doing better than I was last year, even tho I've had a couple of minor
RH> bronchitis flare ups.
My main guy is Advair (2 puffs twice a day) with Albuterol as a "rescue" (two
puffs as needed) And now the Atrovent (2 puffs daily) to complete the trilogy
BTW - I found that Albuterol is adrenaline based which is why they don't use
it as a routine thing but as a "rescue".
I'll see Dr. Bakir (pulmonologist) next Tuesday for a follow-up. I think
he'll probably put me on nebulkiser treatments at that time.
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
Title: Dog Breath Chilli
Categories: Pork, Beef, Chilies, Vegetables, Stews
Yield: 3 Quarts
6 oz Regular breakfast sausage
2 ts Wesson Oil
3 lb Tri-tip beef; in sm pieces
- or coarse ground
1 md Onion; fine chopped
14 1/2 oz Can Swanson's beef broth
1/4 ts Oregano
3 tb Ground cumin
7 cl Gilroy garlic
2 tb Gebhardt chilli spice
1 tb Hot chile powder
1 tb Mild chile power
5 tb Red chile powder
8 oz Can Hunt’s Tomato Sauce
10 oz Can Ro*Tel® Diced Tomatoes
- and Green Chilies
3 Dried California chilies;
- boiled & pureed
1 Dried New Mexico chile;
- boiled & pureed
5 Dried Cascabel chilies;
- boiled & pureed
1/2 ts Ground cayenne
14 1/2 oz Can Swanson's chicken broth
1 ts Tabasco Pepper Sauce
1 ts Brown sugar
Juice of one lime
Salt
2005 winning recipe - $30,000 - Omaha, Nebraska
Brown the sausage, dry, and set aside. Heat oil in a pot,
and brown the beef. Add the cooked sausage to the pot. Add
the onion and beef broth to cover the meat. Boil for 15
minutes. Add oregano and half of the cumin.
Reduce heat to a light boil, and then add the garlic.
Combine the chile powders into a mixture, then add half of
that mixture, and cook 15 minutes.
Add the tomato sauce and Ro*Tel with the puree from the
dried peppers. Add the chicken broth for the desired
consistency.
Cook for one hour, stirring often. Add the remaining chile
powder mixture and the remaining cumin, and simmer for
another 25 minutes on low to medium heat.
Turn up the heat to a light boil, and add the Tabasco®,
cayenne pepper, brown sugar, lime juice and salt.
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