Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Fresh Grouper and chips today.

 

I’m grilling the supper I listed for last night this evening. Ms. Jan decided she was hungry for breakfast last night so breakfast it was.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

We’re finishing off the hambone-15 bean soup we made the end of last week for tonight’s supper. There will be fried cornbread on the side.

I’m scheduled for a heart cath in the morning over at TMH so it’ll be an early night and morning tomorrow.

The hardest thing about it is they say that I can’t have my black coffee in the morning.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Wow—your Mama’s one tough lady!

 

Wow, that’s more than tough. My father had his removed pre-laproscopy, and was in the hospital for two weeks. Today is a different universe. My mom had hers removed laparoscopically and went home the next day

 

My grandad was a big "breakfast for dinner" guy....growing up I would stay with them at their place on St George Island and that was a Sunday night staple. They always stopped at Bradley's Country Store on their way down from Tally.....i recently rediscovered Bradleys online. The grits and sausage is exactly as I always remembered it. Highly reccomended.

 

I had emergency laparoscopy gall bladder surgery in 1998. They accidentally clipped an artery during the process, starting a slow bleed in my abdomen. They apparently weren't aware. (Before the laparoscopy they had put me under to put a scope down my throat to see if any gallstones had gotten out into my abdomen.) I was released from recovery to a floor room without waking up. The nurses there assumed I was OK, just sleeping, even though my wife kept telling them something was wrong. A couple of hours later I had turned white and was gasping for air. Next thing I knew I was waking up in ICU with IV's, oxygen and having my blood checked every hour. They told my wife I had a slow bleed and was hoping it would stop on its own. About 18 hours later, when my hemoglobin dropped below their threshold, I had to be taken for surgery where they cut my stomach open to stop the bleed. Half my blood had to be suctioned out of my abdominal cavity. I was in ICU for 3 days afterwards and was so anemic I couldn't go back to work for over 3 months and had chemical depression from all the anesthesia (3 procedures in about 36 hours) for over a year. I'm 71 now and that's the only time in my life, so far, that I've been in the hospital. No such thing as routine surgery!!

 

My son came by to watch some of the game last night and we had shrimp & cheese grits, with a cucumber & tomato salad on the side. My wife had shrimp with her usual salad.

For tonight I’ll have a meatball sub, with some of the leftover turkey meatballs I made the other night with marinara sauce.

Not sure what my wife wants yet, but I put the over/under at 99% that she’ll have a salad, with either chicken or fish.

 

You had a close call, Ocalaman. I’m glad you’re still with us. Sounds like your wife deserves an Atta Girl too.

 

Almost 48 years with that woman. She's a gem.

 

Tell me about it-I'm 71 and I've had 6 bypasses, appendix removed, gall bladder removed and carotid artery surgery.

 

Wow!! I have 2 friends that I've known since 1975, one is 71, the other 73, and they're both under Hospice care for cancer. I check the obits a couple times a week to make sure I'm not in there.

 

This past St Patrick’s Day was 50 years for me and my lovely wife. I thank my lucky stars every day for her. I knew the first moment I saw her and started a conversation with her that she was the one for me. It took considerably longer for me to convince her I was the one for her.