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Skriven 2013-11-08 19:55:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: quite perfect 341
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-02-13  20:20 <=-

My turn to be out of contact for a few days... been dealing with a
rather nasty case of the dizzies since mid-day Wednesday... finally
subsiding some... ;0
 
 NB>> That's going to put another spin on things... including whether he can
 NB>> be home by himself, even with help...  :(  Hope things are going ok
 NB>> for him, though...

 RH> He will be transferred to the local hospital on (probably) Monday. One
 RH> good thing--it's on the same grounds as the facility where Mom is.

That is a good thing.  I take it he's been moved by now...?

 RH> Possibly, once he gets some stamina, he will be allowed to walk up to
 RH> see her. 

And that also would be a good thing...  

 RH> He shouldn't stay home alone but we're not sure what to do now as
 RH> he does not want a nursing home and is emphatic about it. He did
 RH> use the Life Alert type button to call for help this time.

Maybe this will push him a bit more to consider the thought of joining
your mom in the nursing home, so that they can be together and also get
the care they need...? 
 
 RH>> husband to a (new to the area) Texas Roadhouse. None of them had ever
 RH>> been before but will be back. We brought home left overs for our lunch
 RH>> the next day but David ate all of his 24 oz rib eye in one sitting.
 NB>> It helps to stretch the budget as long as you can manage to not eat
 NB>> all of the larger serving at one sitting...  ;)  A friend of mine
 NB>> always asks for a take-home box at the beginning of the meal, and
 NB>> carefully puts half away at the outset to take home with her.

 RH> I should do that but usually just cut it in half and move half to the
 RH> side, if possible. Some meals aren't worth doing that (small portions)
 RH> but the majority of them are 2-3 servings for the smaller appetite.

If the smaller chunks don't seem large enough for the meal, you can
always eat it all after all...  (G)  But, yes, when you can easily see
that what's there is plenty for more than a meal, splitting it out helps
keep you "honest".... ;)  Essentially the same strategy my friend uses,
just leaving it on the plate instead of putting it immediately away...
 
 RH>> On this trip I saw several farms that had calf for veal pens. Don't
 RH>> know how much of a money maker it is for the farmers any more but
 RH>> obviously enough so that they keep it up. I doubt they'd raise it just
 RH>> for their own enjoyment.
 NB>> The cows have to calve in order to keep their milk freshened... and
 NB>> the farmer isn't necessarily going to want to keep all those calves to
 NB>> add to the dairy herd... as long as there's a market......

 RH> And there seems to be no end to the market, even with the younger
 RH> generations not doing as much home cooking as their elders do/did.
 
After all, the restaurants still serve veal...

 RH>> Tonight, to celebrate Steve's
 RH>> birthday, I pulled a small rib eye steak out of the freezer.
 NB>> So you had the special dinner at home... :)  Not all that surprising
 NB>> after all the travelling you'd been doing...  :)

 RH> Travel, and other reasons. It just worked out well to eat at home.

Understandable...  :)

ttyl          neb

... Read the manual?  Doesn't it come in automatic?

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