What's for dinner ( or lunch )

Alligatorob said:
Knees, full replacements, both knees. Want it all over with in one event...
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The best of luck Bob and wishing you a speedy and as pain free as possible recovery.

Mama was told back in March that she is bone on bone in her left knee and that she should consider a replacement......the lube injection helped her for a couple of months but they won't give her another one till six months after the first.

She's not hurting bad enough for prescription or over the counter pain meds daily but she does have a slight limp so it does bother her.

I'm not trying to convince her to either have or not have the surgery it's her decision......I just wish that I could go through the surgery for her.

Again the best of luck Bob.
 
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Hopefully it won't be too bad. I was really afraid when I had my hip done but it really was not bad. I was in so much pain before the surgery, the actual surgery was a walk in the park. I was lucky to only be in the hospital overnight. The hardest part was getting in and out of bed. I had rehab come to the house for two weeks. After that, I just made sure I did my therapy everyday, twice a day.

I think you will do very well. You seem like a pretty active person and that will make the recovery easier. Let us know how you are doing. Best Wishes!!
 

Alligatorob said:
I understand, my knees hurt worse the closer I get to surgery... Just thinking about them I guess.

I think if you need both done doing them both at the same time makes sense, only one surgery and one lost recovery event.

It's tomorrow morning, doctor says 2 or 3 days in the hospital and then 10 to 30 days in a rehab facility. I understand the first 2 weeks or so are critical to getting good recovery, need to move the knees through their maximum range, a lot. Physical therapy to force that twice a day. I've been told its painful, you get pain killers before PT to make it possible. Not looking forward to it, at all, but when its over my knees should be much improved. Better be.
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Best of luck to you…..I’m sure you’ll do very well.
 
Lunch was a sandwich of pork loin on toasted rosemary bread, spread with faux cheese in a jar. It was yummy. I had a granny smith apple and tea, too.

Faux cheese= store brand Cheese Whiz. I haven't bought Whiz for years and decided to buy it earlier today. I like it on a toasted English muffin. This, coming from a lactose intolerant person.
 
I didn't think I was going to be home at dinnertime tonight but I was, so I made a recipe for creamy vegetable gratin and ate it with brown rice (because, as you may have noticed by now, I eat most things with brown rice). With a few tweaks, it would be a great pot pie filling! I now have two bowls of leftovers in the fridge. I may just make it through an entire week without eating toast for dinner! 😂
 
LadyEmeraude said:
baked chicken and three bean salad.
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Love baked chicken but have never grown fond of three bean salad. Is it the cold bean salad I remember from childhood? I had a bowl of slow cooked pinto beans and cornbread for dinner last night and it was just as good as my
used to make. I would not eat her bean salad.
 
I have a big baker in the oven and a steak ready. It was the monthly medication time for the dogs. I am tired, so I crushed one of their pills on a plate for each of them. I srcambled four eggs with some sharp cheddar cheese. Let that cool and mixed into the heartworm medication on their plates. Woof, woof and they were done. Usually do a fried over easy but it appears they like scrambled with cheese. Live and learn. That will now be the go to for medicine! I am sure they will want a bit of steak when I cook mine. I always give them a bite!
 
No breakfast today. But lunch was for health goodness, a 12 ounce package of mic'd broccoli florets with mayonnaise and salt, washed down with a cup of milk. Then had a couple oatmeal cookies as dessert.

After last weekend's huge HSB music festival, am slowly bringing my body back to normal since next Saturday is another big event with huge festive crowds in San Francisco that is Fleet Week that includes the famed Blue Angels air show and many huge Naval ships in the bay.
 

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