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)=
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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.
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Title: Sauce for Fireside's General Tso
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Yield: 3 Ounce
