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Well, it's been a busy day. Choose hymns and drafted an outline of the service I will be leading at a two point charge this coming Sunday. I think I'll call my message "When people get it wrong".
Then I checked a recipe and rewrote it (larger print and more detailed than in the cookbook). I am organizing a small group of church people and those who come to our church door - we are going to make casseroles. Everybody makes one to takee home for their evening meal, and hopefully some who have cooking facilities at home will get some ideas of reasonably priced nutritious meals they can make themselves.
Then bowling this afternoon, and a visit to a funeral home for one of our bowlers who died after being in a nursing home for the last couple of years.
Then home. Leftovers for dinner. I made home-made baked beans, potato scallop, and coleslaw Saturday.
And now it's almost time for Jeopardy. I'll put a couple of big chunks of wood on the fire. Would the last ones out tonight pleease bank it.
 
Sitting at the airport, waiting to board the plane home. It's been a packed few days and I got sun yesterday. Cold is almost gone. Chat with you all later
 
I have been reading and keeping up with everyone's lives but haven't posted much lately, not for any reason in particular, I just seem to do a quick read when I get the chance and don't usually have as much time to reply. Anyway, I should let you know that the Great Aunt I posted about who was in the hospital passed away a few weeks ago now. It appears that she had lukemia and had made the decision not to tell her children and the rest of the family since we know her sons would have pushed to towards treatment and she, obviously, had decided against it. Knowing that makes all of the things she was dealing with the doctors responses make a lot more sense.

Otherwise, my weekend job starts up again this coning weekend. The museum it is at closes to the public for the winter season so it will be really nice to get back at it (and get the extra pay check again!) In my spare time, I've really gotten into my knitting. I started learning last year with increasingly elaborate face cloth patterns and have since done a poncho for myself (with cables front and back), a reversable winter hat for a friend and am currently working on another poncho for another friend. This one is a different pattern than the one I made myself and I'm trying to do it all myself without having to go to my bf's mother for help. So far I've had to take it all out once. The pattern says to use 3 weight yarn and 4cmm circular needles which I was doing but realised (since I cut corners and didn't do a swatch) that I was making a mini poncho instead. So, I did a swatch and figured out I needed to go up a needle size with the yarn my friend had picked. So, I took all 32 rows I had done out and started again with the correct needle size and everything thing seems to be going well now.
 
It's coming up to a year after my diagnosis. I've been thinking that increasing either dose or frequency of my medication may be beneficial. The clinic was supposed to set up a year followup appointment anyway. I called them, just to double check with that as I haven't heard anything. They are behind on getting things like that done, so they got around to setting that appointment date today - in July!
 
Sounds familiar. From my second biopsy for my skin condition to the followup with the dermatologist was about 4 or 5 months. At least the treatment she's using seems to be having some effect (the psoriasis, assuming that's what it is, is better and certainly not getting worse as it seemed to be doing before).
 
Nice to know I'm not alone! I dunno why they just didn't make the appointment a year ago since it takes so long to get in. I'm not used to having to wait so long for a followup unless it's made right after the appointment. Usually once in it's easier to get in reasonably quickly (1-2 months).
 
London apparently has a shortage of dermatologists so she has to give priority to skin cancers and similar more serious issues, hence the long wait time for my minor condition. London has a shortage of a lot of specialties (family medicine being one of the worst) in spite of having a med school and a fairly good, well known teaching hospital. Which makes me wonder how other communities without those facilities are faring.
 
Mendalla said:
London apparently has a shortage of dermatologists so she has to give priority to skin cancers and similar more serious issues, hence the long wait time for my minor condition. London has a shortage of a lot of specialties (family medicine being one of the worst) in spite of having a med school and a fairly good, well known teaching hospital. Which makes me wonder how other communities without those facilities are faring.
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I dunno about dermatologists - there seems to be lots, thanks to the profitability due to all the non-surgical cosmetic procedures, but there are certainly a shortage of many specialists throughout Alberta. The clinic I am at kept thinking I was from Calgary, they do not have a similar program there, so I think this is the only one for the entire province.
 
Interesting Mendlla - I'm surprised to hear about the shortage of docs in London - assumed a good number would stick around where they went to school, which is often the case for other grads.
 
A light fluff of new snow again last night. It should be great on the ski hills.
This is March break in NB. I think Grandson is going skiing with friends.
Since his mother couldn't take time off work, and not everyone can afford a trip to Disney, sshe's had to try to be creeaetive. Monday afternoon he went with a friend's family to a local motel, another family with an extra kid or two took the adjoining room. Great time - swimming pool, hot tub, small gym, games, and pool tabless. I picked up a tired boy just before check out time on Tuesday. Had to wait while he finished a game of pool. It takes two ten-year old boys a long time to sink aall those balls. They had a great time.
Today I'm organizzing a group of people - clients and volunteers - to make casseroles. I decided on a simple recipe - cabbage roll casserole. Similar to cabbage rolls but with chopped cabbages (to save the steaming, pealing leaves off the cabbage, rolling up). Tried it myself and it is good.
But - the ingredients, plus a dozen tinfoil containers, cost $90.00. I almost fell over at the checkout. Now I'm afraid to present the bill for reimbursement. I was expecting something like $50.00. I guess its awhile since I bought stuff in quantity and prices have creeped up on me.
Anyway - in a couple of hours I'll be down at the church with about eight to ten clients and four or five volunteers - making casseroles to take home. An opportunity for some to learn something about preparing a nutritious meal - and for others who don't have cooking facilities in their rooming house or emergency shelter to cook something from scratch.

Wish me luck.
 
Greetings Roomies! A quick post before I head out (will have to come back and read the new ones above).

March Forth :) into this day with confidence and strength - may hope, joy, peace, and love make their way into your day.
 
I like the idea of making casseroles Seeler -lasting benefits and the cost spread over the number of folks it will feed is quite reasonable.
 
Boo to the flu Greywolf336! Crossing my fingers that you escape!

Casserole cooking sounds great Seeler - hoping the day went well. How many did you end up making? What was the serving size of the pans people took away?
 
I am interested in the casseroles, as well, Seeler. I often thought that it would be good to have such a gathering. Really looking forward to how it went.
 
I've noted that the rapid fall in oil prices has been accompanied by a rather sharp rise in basic food items, especially meat. If I were looking at cooking cheaply for the future, I'd be looking at creative vegetarianism. Otherwise, great idea, seeler, and I do hope it was helpful and inspirational to the group. Looking forward to hearing about it.

My beloved hound-mutt, Lucy, went in for surgery today to remove the metal hardware that's been allowing her crushed tibia to heal. She's a bit zonked, and a cone-head again for a day or two, but otherwise happy to be home with her Mom, and vets assure me prognosis is good but to call them with the first hint of complication. Good people. Godde's hands on hir critters.

First hints of any sort of upper respiratory infection exposure: lots of green tea with organic lemon juice and local wildflower honey in it, nasal rinses.
 
With the drop in Canadian dollar, items that can be sold to the US have gone up in price, as there is less drive to decrease price....
Imports have definitely gone up, and some meats are imported.
 
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