What did you do today

[tony.latham]

Well... Me?

I'm recouping and unpacking from a 100-mile DIY Alaska float/fishing trip. Fifteen days on the river. Temps were in the lower fifties with rain most days. We saw blue sky twice. The Kisaralik river west of Bethel.



The silver salmon were thick and I thought I'd get tired of them each night, but I sure didn't. Almost as thick as the grizzlies.













Tony

[Tom&Shelly]

Like that picture of the grizzly holding the salmon!

Tom

[Tom&Shelly]

Today, as I crawled into bed with a long horizontal row of stitches across my belly and what feels like at least 0.5 square feet of mesh under the incision, I apologised sincerely and at length to my wife for the 3 caesarean sections she endured to bring our children into the world,

Yikes! Planned operation, or something else Mick?

Either way, hope you are recovering and better soon!

Tom

[tony.latham]

Like that picture of the grizzly holding the salmon!

They need to trap that old boar and take him for a ride. A long way away.

Tony

[MickinOz]

Today, as I crawled into bed with a long horizontal row of stitches across my belly and what feels like at least 0.5 square feet of mesh under the incision, I apologised sincerely and at length to my wife for the 3 caesarean sections she endured to bring our children into the world,

Yikes! Planned operation, or something else Mick?

Either way, hope you are recovering and better soon!

Tom

Planned operation, sort of. Went to the doctor (Dave) saying I thought I had a hernia in my groin, and would he mind checking my prostate too, as the waterworks were performing sub-optimally.
So he had a look, sent me for an ultrasound examination, and 2 CT scans.
Dave said, "there is some sort of bladder abnormality, better see what Sam (local general surgeon) says."
Sam said, "I don't think I should touch this one, I'll send you to my mate (The Prof) in Adelaide, see what he says."
The Prof said he wasn't touching it until his ultrasound/CT scan man had reviewed the scans.
General consensus was that the bladder would probably come good if it wasn't tangled up in the hernia and I'd better have the operation ASAP.
So I did, Tuesday arvo. This was supposed to be day surgery - short recovery and throw you out that afternoon if you look like you are doing OK.
The anaesthetist came to see me before the operation and said, "Bugger that mate, you aren't going anywhere. I've already booked you in and ordered your dinner for tonight."
So one day became two days and I then enjoyed the long drive home on that bloody goat track we call National Highway 1.
By the time my son delivered me to my door I was a gibbering wreck. No opiate based pain killers, on surgeon's orders, only paracetamol. (Tylenol?)
Surviving, Friends just dropped in for coffee and a chat. Things are starting to settle.

[tony.latham]

...enjoyed the long drive home on that bloody goat track we call National Highway 1.

Good grief!

Tony

[noseoil]

It's been a while since there's been some good bread at home, so today 2 loaves of bread...

[MickinOz]

What is that in those bowls. Is it the bread dough? What's all the colourful bits?

[Tom&Shelly]

Today, Shelly had her sewing machine out, and made a pouch for our SAE wrenches to carry in the Tundra toolbox



When we finished the teardrop a few years ago, I made a list of essental tools to carry with us. That's been critical for dealing with a few emergencies, including removing the galley drawers last Summer to access and change the battery at Mom's house.

But I didn't like having the wrenches in the truck and not in the workshop, so I went out and bought myself a nice set of Craftsman. Then, when we couldn't travel this Summer due to health issues, I started scrounging (out of frustration, I suppose) wrenches from thrift stores for the Jeep and our garage (far enough from the workshop to make an extra set handy.)

Of course, a mixed set of wrenches can look a little strange. Here's the metric "set" for the Tundra



Forged in India, Japan, China, the other China, and Sears! I'm not particular. We also have 8 inch adjustable wrenches in all the tool boxes. (Do we need both SAE and metric adjustable wrenches?) Shelly plans to make more pouches for the sets for each truck.

The medical problems are really frustrating. Just a few weeks before we planned to head east for the Summer, Shelly started having severe dizzy spells, with other associated problems. It even looked enough like a stroke one evening I called an ambulence, and we spent two nights in the hospital! Since then, she's been to neurologists who say it wasn't a stroke or TIA, an ENT who says it has nothing to do with his part of the head, and a physical therapist who put Shelly into a dizzy spell lasting four or five days. We've even started telling Chat GPT her symptoms to get ideas to run past her primary care physician.

Unfortunately, with no diagnosis, and no end in view, it looks like we won't be out camping anytime soon.

Tom

[TimC]

... good bread...

There oughtabe a law against posting food pics with no recipe, Tim!

[bdosborn]

The medical problems are really frustrating. Just a few weeks before we planned to head east for the Summer, Shelly started having severe dizzy spells, with other associated problems.

Interesting, I had the same thing happen to me about 6 months ago. I woke up one morning and I had vertigo. I spent a few days on the couch and luckily it went away. I donned my tin foil hat and assumed it was a side effect of the Covid shots. I hope it passes for Shelly like it did for me...
Bruce

[MickinOz]

Had my mother in the hospital for dizziness and nausea recently.
Low potassium. The doctor prescribed bananas.
Can also get "Lite Salt", which is a 50/50 blend of potassium and sodium chlorides.

[MickinOz]

Had dinner:
Medallions of dry aged yearling camel slow fried in butter, air fried herbed potatoes and carrots, steamed broccoli and cauliflower.
Left over chocolate mud cake for dessert.
Excuse me while I go pop an extra cholesterol pill.

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[bdosborn]

Hmm, I did not know there was meat camels. How is it, does it taste like beef?
Bruce

[Tom&Shelly]

Had dinner:
Medallions of dry aged yearling camel slow fried in butter, air fried herbed potatoes and carrots, steamed broccoli and cauliflower.
Left over chocolate mud cake for dessert.

Ewww! Broccoli?! The only Broccoli I like have something to do with producing James Bond flicks!

Tom