Subj : Getting Tired
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Jul 09 2025 15:52:27
Hi Dave,
RH> It may take some time or you may escape it entirely. Just make sure
RH> that if it hits while you're cooking, to turn off the stove, put knives
RH> in a secure spot and any open food gets stowed before going to lie
RH> down.
DD> Yesterday - the day after the final (I hope) session I experienced
DD> fatigue. But, by early evening I was as close to normal as I ever get.
Good, maybe you will escape the heavier side effects. I had a much
longer regime so had more of the side effects. Right now the major
fatigue is jet lag from the quick trip to Hawaii.
DD> Good advice for if, as and when.
RH> I just don't want to read somewhere that you got done in by something
RH> that was easily remidiable by a bit of advance thinking. Knives make
RH> prep work easy but if you're slicing something up when tired, it's too
RH> easy to slice fresh meat at the same time.
DD> 8<----- XXXXX ----->8
RH> road. We'd gone over the mountain, nearest town was 40 minutes in back
RH> of us. Since we weren't sure of what damage I'd done and if the metal
RH> plate/screws in the elbow had been damaged, we went back to the ER
RH> there. Set us back several hours but it was worth getting checked out
RH> at an ER vs an Urgent Care. I'd missed lunch and got out of the ER near
RH> supper time so we stopped at a DQ for cones before going back over the
RH> mountain for the 3rd time that day. Spent the night boondocking at a
RH> remote trailhead in SE Utah.
DD> Better to invest a few hours than to pay will *all* of your remaiing
DD> hours by not getting treated/checked out. They finally convinced me
DD> that I am not bulletproof - so whenever I have a faux pas (French for
DD> tripping over my own big feet) I go get anything more than a Band Aid
DD> "owie" checked out.
Steve saw the cut when he cleaned me off and saw that it was one that
needed professional expertise to close it. I've seen the scar (in a
mirror) and know it was for the better. The arm is still a bit weak as I
found when trying to carry my purse and Steve's laptop bag on it while
deplaning (right hand was dragging a roller bag) a couple of times. We
had two flights out, two back, changing planes on the way out in LVNV
and inbound in Phoenix, both familiar to us airports.
DD> My Hy-Vee (currently USA Today's #1 Grocer) offers both pick-up and
DD> deliverry if I buy U$25 or more worth of grub. Which, given today's
DD> prices is not at all hard to do. That's how I get pantry items and
DD> frozen stuff. Fresh meat and produce - I still buy in person. But the
DD> delivery (even tipping the driver) or pick-up saves a lot of time and,
DD> especially, effort.
RH> I'm still enjoying shopping in person but may try a pick up/delivery
RH> service at some point. Most of our groceries we get at Wegman's but go
RH> to super big box stores for paper goods, vitamins, etc. Eventually
RH> we'll probably condense everything down to one store but we're not
RH> ready to yet.
DD> I'd bet that Wegman's has a pick-up/delivery service similar to
DD> Hy-Vee's. I note that all but the "discount" grocers like Ruler Foods
DD> and Sav-A-Lot have begun offering the pick-up and/or delivery.
I'm not 100% sure as we've not had the need to check it out. The store
was being built in 2020-21 (the height of covid) so we were shopping
elsewhere.
DD> And, as convenient as that is I still go, live and in-person to hand
DD> pick my fresh produce and/or meats.
That's how we feel. We came home with some Hawaiian treads (macadamia
nuts--dark and milk chocolate covered, garlic/onion and Maui onion
flavored), some shrimp seasoning and multi purpose seasoning. All old
favorites from when we lived there. Also given some macadamia
nut/caramel and macadamia nut (other, don't recall off the top of my
head) bars
DD> This will be tonight's supper using one of the U$3 rotisserie chickens
DD> I picked up last evening at th GFS store.
Sounds good. We stopped for supper at a chain seafood place in Raleigh
(first choice, non chain, was closed) last night; I brought about half
of my mustard potato salad and 4 (of 8) broiled shrimp home. Potato
salad was the best part of the meal as the shrimp were overdone and the
cole slaw was a finely chopped cabbage and who knows what tasteless mix.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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