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Skriven 2008-02-11 14:04:57 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2015 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
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Hi Janis,

 JK> like > my AC--helps me breath better too.

 JK> Me too... I'd never lived so close to a major river before Louisville,
 JK> KY... that was humid :) I've never had asthma or such bad bronchititis
 JK> that I needed repeated treatment. It's the heat I need it for most of
 JK> the time... but not til it hits really long streaks of like over 90
 JK> ... which is kind of rare.


The humidity bothers me more and more as the heat increases. I can
usually do well in the 70s; the 80s start to give me trouble (more as
the temperature rises) and the 90s (no AC), I basically try not to do
anything except breath.


>> We caught, cleaned and ate trout.. sun fish.. trying to remember what
>> else we caught.. I think catfish.. it's been too long :)  But I do
>> remember cleaning and eating them :)

 JK> > Suckers? Perch?

 JK> Certainly perch.. I remember those guys :) I remember something else
 JK> with an "s".. but I thought they were sunnys or sunnies... haha..
 JK> maybe they were Suckers..

Suckers are quite unmistakeable--they're ugly dudes!


>> Sounds like great memories there (smile).  My mom and dad's family are

 JK> > I'd say good but not great.

 JK> Ok, for me anything outside of Warwick was "exciting".. It seemed I
 JK> had relatives from all over ... even if they weren't blood relatives.
 JK> I remember my father's 2nd Cousin Ritchie coming to visit bringing the
 JK> most incredible Italian Pastries from South Jersey, and sometimes a
 JK> fresh Pizza :)  Anyway that's why I thought there would be some good
 JK> memories there.

I only remember my grandmother, grandfather (while he was alive; he
passed away when I was 4) and aunt visiting my family very often.  They
usually brought a box of doughnuts (a treat for us kids) because they
didn't like what my mom did (does) for breakfast.  We didn't like it
either but had to eat it before we could have a doughnut.


 JK> It was funny though, our "Binhamton NY" relatives only came around for
 JK> really special occaisions... Guess when the roads were bad here, it
 JK> was really bad then.  Route 17 probably wasn't done yet (g).

We were taking my mom out to summer school (and bringing her back) in
the years 17 was being built. Each year we got to use a bit of the new
road; I think it was finally finished shortly after I started college.


 JK> >  Sometimes on our way back from NJ, my parents
 JK> > would stop in Monticello to get hard rolls, pastrami (for them,
 JK> > occaisionally for the kids) and salami for supper sandwiches when we
 JK> got > home (about an hour later).  That was some good meat! The rolls

 JK> Oh haha.. you mean Kaplan's bakery :) :)  Did you ever get to go to

I think that was the one but can't say 100%; it's been over 35 years for
me.


 JK> Charloo's? Did you ever have the toasted black date-nut bread and
 JK> cream cheese? or their french fries with chicken gravy? :) Boy was
 JK> they both good.. I finally got close to figuring the date nut bread

No, my parents never went there; it was always the rolls and meat at the
one place.  I guess that was the only one they knew about.


 JK> out ... I've searched for any kind of recipe that they might have used
 JK> and the closet I came to with experimentation was this:

 JK> ==Datenut bread with Creamcheese==

Looks interesting; I'll have to post the olive loaf I made the other
day.  It's good by itself warm but really good warm with turkey breast
on it.

 JK> very uncooperative (g). That's why I want to do the picnic in
 JK> July/August.. but not toooooooo late in august :) I know the temp here
 JK> can drop.. they close down the swimming pool at the park like July
 JK> 15th :( Unheard of in Warwick.. it was warm in the Valley until Sept
 JK> (g)... or it seemed :)

I think the pools in Andes and Delhi sty open until Labor Day.
Margaretville never did get one thanks to the stubbornness of the town
council.


>> When my daughter was a baby, the first time I noticed there was a
>> problem with her breathing she actually started turning gray .. I was

 JK> > Scary to think about "what if".

 JK> Yes, it was ... horribly.. my sister had had asthmatic kids before
 JK> that who were rushed to the ER.. scared the crap out of me then ...
 JK> but really Lauren was controllable if I watched what she ate and made
 JK> her keep her room up so to speak.. She never had a really vicious
 JK> "rush her to the ER asthmatic attack" but she sure could have some
 JK> scarey wheezes...

I've had a few of those "rush to the ER" episodes before getting a
change in medications and a really good pulmonologist.  In AZ, one time
I was in the ER and a friend from church who was an EMT came in on a
run.  After he finished what he had to do with his patient, he came over
and asked why I was there. Steve filled him in; he hadn't known I was
asthmatic. From then until the time we left, just about every time he
saw me he'd do a visual assesment to see how I was breathing.

 JK> > once and asked if I had asthma. I told her not that > I knew of so
 JK> she >suggested I get checked out the next time I went to the > doctor.
 JK> Sure enough, > I did (I'm glad I finally found out why I was > always
 JK> so short of breath.)

 JK> Glad you did as well :(

So am I; it answered a lot of questions.

 JK> > get it checked and I do have asthma. At the > time it was borderline
 JK> but it's


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