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Skriven 2015-04-11 14:48:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: wanderings 485
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-09-15  13:50 <=-

 ML>> Put it this way - I could see his internal musculature
 ML>> when I had to repack his wound; the alternative was to
 ML>> go find a hospital on the weekend to do it, blowing
 ML>> most of the day. I don't know what lies he told his
 ML>> doc about me to allow this, but it wasn't hard work
 ML>> (but not for the squeamish).
 NB>> Probably didn't have to tell any lies, other than to hope that you
 NB>> would indeed be up to the job...  I've found that at least around here,
 NB>> the assumption is that some family member or friend should be able to
 NB>> handle such minor details as wound care... but at least they usually
 NB>> have a nurse show that person how first... ;)
 ML> The only thing that spooked me was the depth of the wound.

(My use of the word minor should probably have been in quotes, as I
meant it rather facetiously...)  How come his wound ended up so deep...
were there problems with the healing...?  

 ML> One of the items included in the care kit was a sterile
 ML> pack of long-handled swabs. I asked Bill what they were for,
 ML> and he said that they were to poke the dressing into the
 ML> deeper recesses of the cavity.

Definitely not for the squeamish... 
 
 ML>> Milky things mellow out the stronger aspects of
 ML>> shellfish. Of course, nowadays a lot of people put
 ML>> cheese into oyster dishes, which tends to intensify the
 ML>> metallic and fishy aspects, but I guess a lot of people
 ML>> don't notice that.
 NB>> Or perhaps that's what they think it should taste like...?
 ML> There may be that, as cheese really heightens the sewagy
 ML> aspects, and maybe that's considered a good thing in some
 ML> circles?

One never knows... Tastes can be so divergent...  ;0
 
 ML>> I had whelk in the style of escargots the other day (i.e.,
 ML>> a big snail chopped up and prepared in garlic butter and
 ML>> crumbs and then stuffed back into the shell and finished
 ML>> in the oven.
 NB>> That sounds right tasty...  :)
 ML> It was, but the meat was rather chewy.

Ah.... oh, well..

 NB>> Go figure... but probably a good providence in the long run. :)
 ML> Speaking of which, I went past the Providence airport train stop
 ML> yesterday, and the winds and storms had smashed the shelter.

Oh, dear....

 ML> Speaking of which, I'm invited to my friend? Ann's for dinner
 ML> tonight. I've been apprised by a third party that the main dish
 ML> for the evening is cheese souffle.

Was she the one that had a mostly dairy meal for you not all that long
ago...?  Did you go anyway, despite the menu...?
 
 ML>> Tempe is in a part of Tempe that is north of the river, so people
 ML>> think that it's in Scottsdale, well, it took a while for the
 ML>> deliveryman to figure that out.
 NB>> A Comedy of Errors, but All's Well That Ends Well...
 ML> Yes, but we were frazzled enough to have a bunch of drinks
 ML> afterward Measure for Measure.

:)

 NB>> So far I've managed not to do any major messups with meds and
 NB>> trips... but it's an ongoing paranoia..  ;)
 ML> I have managed to pack one valsartan a day instead of two, which
 ML> meant cutting pills in half and getting a barely thrapeutic dose
 ML> if that for a week.

Sigh.  Speaking of which, I need to pack for a trip in the next couple
of days...  I'm already rehearsing to myself how much I'll need of
everything, and figuring out how to package it... and making sure I've
got enough of it all... :)  Leaving on Tuesday, returning Saturday...
(so I'm trying to get myself caught up first... [g])

 ML>> I was never fiercely loyal.
 NB>> I can be fiercely loyal to friends... ;)
 ML> I'll be pretty loyal to friends, but if concepts and principles
 ML> contradict, more often than not I'll go with the latter. When
 ML> human pain is involved, I try to go with the lesser damage;
 ML> luckily the situations that have required this kind of decision
 ML> have been rare in my life.

Fortunately, also been rare in my life...  I'm more likely to go with
principles rather than concepts, too...

 ML> Which brings up the can of worms of love vs. fairness. Do you
 ML> practice favoritism or not? I haven't a good answer for this.

I think that one the answer is, it depends.  Which isn't a very good
answer, either...  :)  I suppose I try not to practice favoritism, in
general, just on general principles... Probably a holdover from being
the oldest of eight kids...  ;)

 ML>> Bill says hello to everyone if they remember who he is.
 NB>> Never met him in person, but certainly remember him from the echo.  :) 
 ML> There used to be a strong out-west contingent in the echo, and
 ML> I think he and Hap were the last to drop off.

Well, we do still have YK Jim... And I note that Alan Ianson is also
west, in BC...  :)

ttyl       neb

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