So tomorrow is my first vein surgery procedure. I have two this week. Kinda a little scared but it has to be done before the human garbage take away our insurance.
I don’t know how I’ll feel for a while after it’s done so last night I made up a bunch of safe eats to keep in the freezer.
Also don’t know if I’ll have much to blog about for a couple weeks or so. So it might be longer than usual before I update. I just won’t know til after the procedures.
I’ll still be keeping in touch on Instagram though if you’re interested. JATGAHB
Yeah.
I took the day off for Easter. Ate that whole box of creme eggs. Not one bit sorry. 🙂
Made this cherry rum cake like I made for Christmas because it’s the fam’s new fav and was requested as our Easter treat. Thank you so much, gfjules for making flour the whole fam eats like it’s completely normal. 🙂
So we did brisket, beans, potato salad for our Easter meal.
Y’all I cooked that brisket in the pressure cooker and it was unreal.
It was a super fatty 5 pound cut.
I put 1 cup of beef broth in the bottom of pressure cooker. Added the well seasoned and rested (about 12 hours) brisket plus a chopped onion.
Pressured on high for 110 minutes.
Let depressure naturally and then let rest overnight in the cooking pot / juices.
Sliced and reheated. Everybody loved this.
My plate plus a big ol Sonic root beer. 🙂
Totally felt like this…for a few hours. Then all the sugar / carb pains kicked in and I’m 100% ready to get right back on plan. Today the day off was worth it. We’ll see how it feels tomorrow though. 😉
That’s all for today. Hope y’all are having a great Easter weekend and I’ll see you soon-ish. 🙂
Y’all know what that means…I can officially buy some Halloween Oreos. 🙂 I know they’ve been out for a while but I refused to buy any til October. Yes, our scarecrow is wearing an Aggie cap…as should all good scarecrows. 🙂
I’m gonna do the health update at the bottom.Â
Let’s start with some eats…
Made a pressure cooker pot of short ribs. That pressure cooker is worth every cent just for short ribs alone.
Tried out this new potato soup.
It’s Gluten – Free
You just bring 4 cups of water to a boil. Dump in package. Stir. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. That’s it.
It was delish. Those of us who ate it gave it thumbs up. I had mine with some grated cheddar and a handful of croutons. I went back to pick up a couple more packages for when the weather cools down and other people must have been thinking the same thing because there were only 2 packages left. Next time I’m going to add some chopped up chicken and some corn for Chicken Corn Chowder.
Best Casa in Tejas. 🙂
Ok now to the end of my rope…not really but it feels like it. AKA…the health stuff…
When we last met I was going to see another specialist. She was great. I really liked her and it turned out her husband is a rheumatologist so she asked if I cared if she consulted with him. She got him on the phone and sent him all the pics of my blood spots / bruises. He said the spots on my arms looks like vasculitis but the two on my toes (which I thought were the same as the arms) where not and looked like little tiny blood clots in the tiny vessels. He told her to send me to the hematologist in her building and to also test me for Scleroderma.
Hematologist number two was miles better than the first one. She agreed that they’re tiny clots but said that I have good blood flow in my feet so it’s just a part of my clotting disorder and that I didn’t need to freak out about it unless another one pops up. Then I’d have to have a scan and possibly start heparin shots (a different blood thinner).
Both of these doctors were so much better than most of the doctors I’d seen before them. They were located in Tomball…so a pretty good ways from me…but it was worth the drive.
Now the blood results are in and…wait for it…of course I tested positive for the Scleroderma antibodies. As if I don’t have enough to deal with.
Oh and I forgot…the night before I went to see them I fell so the first doctor wanted to do an x-ray. Yep you guessed it. Small fracture on my tailbone. Nothing to do about it. Just manage the pain and let it heal.
I’m starting to wonder if this will ever end.Â
So now I don’t get to just forget about all of this for a while and stop the doctor trips as planned. I have to find a rheumatologist to sort thru the Scleroderma stuff because it can be serious. The reason I can’t see the husband of doctor number one is because he’s currently waiting out a non-compete and won’t be working until January. He’s going to be working in his wife’s building and I was planning on waiting til then and seeing him but when she called to tell me the results she said I needed to be seen by a rheum much sooner.
So that’s where things stand with the health stuff. Still no definitive answers and couple new things added to the pile. Oh well…
It’s October. Birthday month. I think I need to celebrate everyday in case it’s the last one. 😉 And by celebrate I mean…ya know Mexican and cake every day. 😉
