aKathy's What's for Dinner 7/10

Good evening all,
It has been another really warm day here today, but about an hour ago it started getting darker and in the past few minutes there’s been thunder and lightning going off and I guess we’ll get rain soon.
I had a slow morning - laundry and a couple of phone calls - then this afternoon I went to get my nails done. As it was so hot, I treated myself to a gelato on the way home.
We did get some good news today. My niece and her boyfriend are expecting their first baby - a little boy - in January.
DH is out for dinner again, so I have to fend for myself. I’ll either use up more of the cabbage in my fridge and make okonomyaki, or I’ll heat up one of the pizzas in the freezer.

Happy Wednesday!

It's another hot one here in Texas but I feel for my friends and family in the PNW who are having a heatwave and most homes don't have air conditioning. When I lived there, we put it in but it's not common. I'm going back to visit at the end of the month and will be sleeping in a warm room with a fan on!

I'm not sure what I'm having for dinner tonight. I have some options that will depend on if my parents come over or not. I'm going to pick up a grocery order at lunch.

Hope you all have a great day!

We are getting dumped on by the remnants of Beryl, so it is gloomy and rainy.
I ordered ds' patio furniture from Wayfair and it listed delivery dates between the 11th and 13th which was perfect as I work from home Th-Fr and the 13th is Saturday.
Three of 5 boxes are being delivered today. 🤦🏼‍♀️ See previous comment about the rain. So, I am wfh today as well, needing to catch the FedEx driver before he unloads so he can go around back to our garage.

Dinner tonight was supposed to be burgers, but...rain.
So, I have some Just Bare chicken filets that I will make in the air fryer. We can put Buffalo sauce on them and hopefully the coleslaw mix I bought last week is still good. The date would suggest that it is, but who knows!

DS will be leaving in a little while to head back to the Bay Area. Even though it was hot, we had a nice visit for 5 days. He'll probably take a long Labor Day Weekend for another visit.

Dinner will be whatever I decide when I go to Raley's. Another hot one and even hotter tomorrow. Ugh.

Sorry about your neighbor scrapmaven , I hope he's okay.

It's so good to "see" you. I miss your avatar smiling face when go away for a few days. But I'm glad you are spending time with family.

Very frustrated.  Tired of taking showers at SO's mom's.  Only because their house is so HOT.  I have to take cold showers and quick showers.  So looking forward to a warm shower and taking my time!
But I won't let it get the best of me!  I am still on the positive side of this.

it is my dh's birthday and he started the day getting an echocardiogram. I'm getting mine this afternoon. we are driving each other to appts as the parking is tight.

very very foggy today.. we are going to the Giants baseball game tonight.. dh will get something good, I'm bringing my orange and carrots to eat. and a kind bar. ballpark food is not friendly to my diet.

he is going to his mom's house before it goes on the market next tuesday, and the realtor said she may have an offer by monday. good thing.. he will see his aunt and my brother and sister in law-- and give her the 5 albums I redid for her.

so a busy day for me. giants won last night when the catcher was unable to catch the ball.. bottom of the 9th, 2 outs... and a runner came home!!! hope they do well tonight.

Wasn't that awesome?? DH, DS and I were watching the game and were thrilled with the ending. So much fun watching when they win. Hopefully you will bring us another win tonight!

Sorry to have disappeared for the past few days.  It's been a heck of a week  - and it's only Wed!  Sat. I noticed DH was more lethargic than normal and he went to bed early.   Sunday morning he woke up and wanted to go up front.  That's when I noticed he was not wearing the oxygen canula.  Short story - ended up calling 911 to take him back to Methodist ER.  His CO2 level was 109!  They put him on a bipap machine and started running tests.  Fortunately the numbers started coming back down.  He has been readmitted to the MICU and is still there.  We were in ER for 12 hours and then another 2 hours before I got home.

They had his numbers back to normal then they started to creep up.  So since late Monday he has been intubated and sedated (he had become very agitated on Sunday and had to be restrained).  Part of the problem is that his breathing isn't strong enough to keep the co2 levels normal, so they are trying to find the cause of that.  All this is definitely a result of a reaction to the Keytruda.  Thank goodness he was in really good physical shape before this happened. They are doing a brain MRI this afternoon (that he refused the last stay) to see what's going on and to check out the optic nerve.  While his double vision is gone, he is still having a hard time opening his eyes or seeing well up close.    My hope is that after they study the MRI that they will begin to wean him off the intubation.  But for everyone's sake, keep the man on the happy juice - at least a low dose!  

Then we had a visit from Beryl.  When it rains it pours!  Fortunately we had our generator installed mid-June because that thing has been a godsend this week.  Our neighborhood was back online after 26 hours, but I know so many more that are still without. This time only 3 of the holly trees need to be set up right.  Two had been staked in May but now are going the other direction.  The river birch that had been leaning over the back yard since May went on a journey.   Looked out in the middle of Beryl and it was leaning over the driveway, then later it was leaning towards the house and caught on the corner.  No damage but it will be history by the end of the week. 

Also had a pane in a kitchen window get broken by a branch from the neighbor's ash tree. Heard a big explosion before I got out of bed and came up to find glass all over the kitchen.  So started Monday with clean up of that.  Have the window covered and my contractor was out yesterday to get the ball rolling on a replacement pane.  An offer to pay half to cut the ash tree down has been made.  I hope like heck they accept it!  There is so little shade it provides now that I'm not sure why they even keep.   But we enjoyed the shade for 30 years so don't mind helping with the removal, even though it's not on our property.  

At 2 pm I have a video visit with my GP.   She is going to prescribe something more long term to help with my general anxiety.  What she called in over the weekend has been helpful, but I need to get ahead of this.  I am having a difficult time even eating and have lost 6 lbs since June 26, which I really don't have available to lose.  

So any prayers, good thoughts and wishes would be most appreciated as we tackle this current hurdle.  Will try to be better about checking in more frequently.  

This made me laugh out loud and I really needed a laugh. You have no idea how bad I want to board a plane to CA and laugh my head off with you. You have the best sense of humor.



Honestly, I think I have gotten to the comedy stage of this adventure. She wants to do it, I just back off and let the chips fall like they did last week. She wants to give out wrong answers, I just correct them without any kind of emotion. She wants to overstep, I'm just going to send her emails letting her know as carefully as I can that I feel she's overstepped and then forward them to him. I'm beyond caring at this point. Bigger fish to fry.

**GypsyGirl** ugh. You poor thing. It's just too much. I'm sure you are worried sick. I am glad you advocated for yourself with your doc. Anxiety under a circumstance like this is expected. And then the storm on top of it, you didn't need that. Just sending you a hug.

You and me both!  Good luck with your window installation.   You will love the difference!

Thanks!  It doesn't take much with my GP.   She is fantastic.  I send her a message through MyChart on Friday (7/5) not expecting to hear from her until Monday.  Just before 10 pm I got a message from her and she had called in the anxiety meds and I was able to pick them up at 10 am the next morning!  She also had her staff reach out to set up the video appointment on Monday.  She is definitely a keeper!  

Thank you!