So...last weekend was great. Brent and I went to a local nursery and got some rhodies for the shady area in the back yard. He dug holes and I planted them on Sunday. Noticed that my nose was sore when wiping off dirt or Z slobber...but didn't think too much about it. Was much worse by Sunday evening, and by Monday morning, could have done a great impersonation of Rudolf...so Brent had me start oral clindamycin. Worked all day Monday, but driving home was a challenge with a throbbing headache from my nose, to between my eyes (You know how it feels if you get hit on the bridge of your nose when you're wearing glasses??? Yeah....like that!!!), to my teeth/jaw on the left. Ouch!!! Got so little sleep that night that I had to call in at work. Felt really bad about that!! Spent Tuesday soaking my face in warm salt water. A pretty special challenge, by the way! Brent kept appearing to peer at my face and threaten to take me to the ER for IV antibiotics. Anyhow, by the end of Tuesday, I could finally see around my nose and the pain was no longer throbbing..so oral antibiotics finally kicked in!!! Oh well...I see about 2 kids with MRSA every other week...plus Brent went through a bout himself a while back...so we're definitely blaming him with the cooties! The company I keep! I need to reevaluate that!!
Back to work on Wed. Feeling much better now. Only the tiniest bit tender if I smash things around.
Had a great weekend. Went down to Atlanta on Wednesday evening. Brent attended the GA chapter AAP meeting and I read and worked on recipes and got to visit with and exercise with Rose. Did INSANITY with her and her friend on Thurs. (You two girls are just the coolest!!) Ran the pi mile with her on campus on Friday. We got to have dinner with her each night and on Sat we all went to De Kalb Farmer's Market for lunch and groceries. It was beautiful weather. Fall has made its way to north Georgia. Lovely.
Some of you may know...but Brent is always on the look out, to provide me with a "cooking challenge". So....when perusing the fish counter at DeKalb....he was excited to see a fish unknown to him. Escolar...a buttery fish from Hawaii. It looked much like sword fish and seemed very fresh. Touted to be "white tuna". Well....we get home. Start packaging things up...deciding what to cook when, what to freeze. I google "escolar". Interesting! It is indeed pronounced by those who have eaten it to be incredibly buttery and delicious, thanks to the wax esters that the fish stores in its flesh because it can't metabolize them. However, within 24 to 48 hours, most people, especially those who have eaten greater than 6 ounces, have spontaneous, uncontrollable, greasy, orange, diarrhea, cramping and are generally unhappy. (The FDA-like organizations of Japan and Hong Kong have banned its sale. Our own FDA recommended that at one point, then just decided to have no comment.) Brent thinks he can probably tolerate it with his tummy of iron, but can't get up the nerve. He thinks that I, on the other hand, will not be a happy camper, since a handful of Triscuits can throw me a curve!! Anybody hungry? We've got some escolar available...cheap!
Had a delicious dinner of roast lamb with rosemary and garlic, roasted rainbow carrots, and a veggie tray bake of miniature eggplants, onion, red bell pepper, and kalamata olives. Now...that's good eats!! - c
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Wow! I'm so glad you didn't eat that fish! :O
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