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Skriven 2014-12-16 01:42:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> Today I needed to catch a bus at 0550, but I don't have a
 ML> working alarm device - so ate a quite large amount of
 ML> chocolate to disrupt my sleep. I did get the visual
 ML> distortions, but interestingly the migraine did not come.
 NB> Maybe you slept through the migraine itself...

Possibly, but I doubt it.

 I used to use sleep as
 NB> the final resort for coping with them....

If that were a viable possibility, strikes me that it
could be the first resort.

 ML> and toss to combine. Serve soon, or enjoy a
 ML> pink-looking slaw. (Red cabbage tends to tint
 ML> mayo dressing pink.)
 NB> I'd think a pinkish slaw could be rather pretty... ;)

Were it a reasonably consistent pinkish, maybe, but
I doubt that red cabbage runs to order.

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 ML> I'd rather be 100% immediately, but it looks as though I may
 ML> not ever be 100% at all.
 NB> I hear you...  might be just a new normal...  but maybe you can get
 NB> back more than you think (or he might expect), eventually..  He didn't
 NB> say something like, you're in pretty good shape for someone your age, I
 NB> trust...  ;)

Someone said that once, I think a physician, not recently,
though. I've had this week in Florida and have slept through
much of it - friend who is a public health doc (and can say
things that regular docs don't) said that she estimated that
it would be 6 months to get back to normal - not what I
particularly want to hear. I basically can't move my arms
without considerable discomfort, pretty weird.

 ML> In fact it now turns out that one of the versions of my
 ML> medical record has me undergoing a second brain operation
 ML> and being on antiseizure medications for it (as well as
 ML> a couple drugs that I have never been on).
 NB> How interesting.  Did they conflate persons, or just add in something
 NB> that might have happened...?

Conflating persons, possibly, insurance fraud on somebody's
part, less likely (they have this identity verification
procedure that borders on the silly). A very remote possibility
is that the hospitalization happened and I lost all memory of
it, so I went and pulled my travel records, and in fact I was
on the road when the procedure was supposed to have occurred.

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 ML> It took the doc a bunch of time to correct the records
 ML> (fixing the incompetence of the data entry people to be
 ML> paid for by the insurance, at some inflated rate no doubt).
 NB> One wonders, too, if that was incompetence or an instance of insurance
 NB> fraud...

I rather doubt it, see above, as a matter of patient
malfeasance; and there would be no reason for the hospital
to do a fraud against itself, as it and the insurer are part
of the same company.

 NB> wondered about myself...  "Tb of vertebrae" turned out to be
 NB> tuberculosis of the spine... as I had no recollection of ever being
 NB> diagnosed with such, nor did he, he removed it... we suspect the wrong
 NB> code being entered... but what the right one should have been, neither
 NB> of us had any idea...  ;)
 
I actually have been diagnosed with possible tuberculosis,
self-contained and long in the past - there are old lesions
in my lungs, but the person who found this decided that it
hadn't been an important occurrence, so no fuss was made
about it, and if it were further investigated and became
prominent in my record it might pose problems with my being
admitted to some countries.

Roast chicken
cat: Singapore, main, poultry
servings: 4 to 6

1 Carogold Chicken (1.2 - 1.5 kg)
h - marinade
1 Tb Chinese wine
1 Tb Maggie seasoning
2 Tb Light soya sauce
2 ts MSG
1/2 Tb Salt
3 Tb Water
1 Tb Sugar
2 Tb Ginger juice
1/6 ts 5 spice powder

Marinate the chicken in a ziploc bag and remove the
air by submerging it in a bowl of water.  Leave it to
marinate at least 4 hr or overnight. The next day,
remove it from the fridge and bake it in the oven at
140C until the internal temperature reaches 60C.  If
you don't have a thermometer, you can just poke the
thickest part of the thigh with a skewer to see if
the juices run clear (if it is still bloody, it is
not ready).  This should take 50-90 min depending on
the size of the chicken and your oven.

Once ready, remove the chicken from the oven and
allow it to cool.  Heat 2" oil in a wok or pot and
deep fry the chicken for 1-2 min or until the skin
turns into a beautiful bronze colour. Allow it to
 rest for 15 min before chopping.

Carogold chicken is available Kee Song Brothers
online store:  http://online.keesong.com/

Chef Sin Leong
This post was sponsored by Kee Song Brothers
http://ieatishootipost.sg
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