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Skriven 2016-01-02 16:01:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: rye  was: bread
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 12-06-15  20:32 <=-

Still from the 6th....

 NB>> This has really been a strange week... starting with losing power in
 NB>> the house on Tuesday when I was in the middle of answering a
 NB>> message... by the time I could get back to it, no more time for
 NB>> messaging, so only the two already completed went out...

 RH> Odd, did you figure out what caused it?
 
Yup... turned out that one of the wires at the pole had broken, so we'd
lost half the power to the house... Richard called RG&E, and they came
out and rehooked both wires, apparently the other was fixing to go,
too... :)  Was fixed quickly enough the same day, thankfully...  ;)

 NB>> the next day, my mom went into the hospital, and my time got curtailed
 NB>> even more...  ;)  She's back home now... having ruled out heart,
 NB>> carotid, stroke and TIA possibilities or issues... dizziness, double
 NB>> vision and balance problems... so now it's back to seeing her ENT,
 NB>> her eye doctor, and her primary... but she'll

 RH> Uh-oh! Good to hear some things were ruled out but hopefully the
 RH> doctors can figure out what's going on with her body.

As it turned out, we ended up going to the second hospital (Strong) the
day after I wrote that... and got a more careful diagnosis... as I
mentioned yesterday, turns out it was indeed a stroke... and what was
causing the double vision was that her eyes weren't tracking together...
So the eye doctor and ENT are on hold for now again... 
 
 NB>> be getting more of the PT and OT at home from this, which is good...
 NB>> and a speech/swallow evaluation from a Speech Therapist as well...

 RH> Between them all, you should get some answers.

We are indeed doing the rehab at home still... PT twice a week, OT and
ST once a week, visiting nurse once a week, and a nutritionist who came
to see her and is keeping tabs on things... Maybe not so much answers
from them, but at least some work and progress on getting her more
stable... ;)   She has a follow-up appointment with the Strong Stroke
Clinic this coming week... 
 
 NB>>> Many of our meals are just veggies and proteins... But once in a
 NB>>> while, the bread comes in handy to round things out and sop up
 NB>>> juices... Other meals will include potatoes or rice....
 NB>>> Sometimes pasta... :)
 RH>> We had crock pot beef stew (done in the baby pot as Steve needed the
 RH>> pressure cooker) tonight with bread & butter. I added some nuts for
 RH>> dessert to raise my protein intake as the stew had some potatoes. It
 RH>> also had onions, red bell pepper, carrots, mushrooms and tomato sauce.
 RH>> An easy supper with the other kitchen work of the day.
 NB>> Sounds right tasty, too....  :)  And one of these days, you'll get to
 NB>> use the crockpot part of the new toy...  ;)

 RH> I did, for lamb stew on Friday. It works quite well. Steve said that
 RH> the crock pot part is the same capacity as my big one, being a
 RH> different shape threw me off.
 
Ah... so not a mid-size, just an extra one...  :)   And now you know
that the entire gadget is well-worth the purchase...  :)

 RH>> The basic crumb supply comes only from the 100% whole wheat bread
 RH>> so I need to make that on a semi regular basis.
 NB>> And if you might be needing a larger amount that what you have in
 NB>> stock, there's also impetus to supply the "raw" materials for the
 NB>> crumb stock more fully...  ;)

 RH> Yes, but I don't have any whole wheat bread on hand now. Have to get
 RH> some going, but want to use down the rye and pumpernickel first.
 
Less of a need for the crumbs when you are away, anyway...  ;)
 
 RH>> Possibly, depending on what I need crumbs for in the next few weeks.
 RH>> Not anticipating much of a need, at least I don't forsee the need.
 NB>> One never knows what might be around the corner... ;)

 RH> That's so true! Another busy week for us, we know that much. (G)

Followed by an extensive trip...  (G)

ttyl       neb

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