Granny's gone and done it again

[BigBlueHen53]

Glad to hear that you are feeling better, Blue girl. I have occasional hypokalemia also. It can make you feel tired. I've wound up in the ER getting IV potassium pumped into me when GI bugs have gotten the better of me and critically dropped my potassium. Once it was so bad I my hands were paralyzed. Asked the doc why I kept dropping it and he just shrugged and said some folks have potassium wasting kidneys and you are probably one of them. One doctor told me to keep a container of salt substitute on hand and if I felt like I was dropping to swallow down a half a teaspoon. I do that but man, that stuff is rank.

Hey! I wonder if that's why I sometimes wake up with my hands paralyzed! Used to happen as far back as high school. And here I have been blaming it on the wx. Thanks, gf!

Small world. I did spaghetti squash for dinner also. Made real spaghetti for DH and I had it with my turkey meat sauce. It almost reminds me of the real thing, sigh.

I love spag squash. No spag sauce though. I just like it w salt, butter and cheeeeese.

Weird day today. For 3 years we have been begging the township road commissioner to put a drainage tube at the base of our drive way. We live on the top of a medium sized ridge with a taller ridge hill on either side of us so all the water was draining down and settling at our driveway for years. Every time they recrowned the road, they sloped it more towards our driveway and made the standing water worse.

Two years ago, after an ice storm, a snow storm, a thaw and another ice storm, we had an ice skating rink out front and an Amish horse went down and couldn't get up. Took buckets of ash and a lot of pushing and pulling to get her back on her feet again. DH started sending them pics but we got ignored until this February when somebody finally showed up to look the situation over. Yep, we needed a drainage tube under our driveway and new ditches dug. August came and no ditches or anything else. DH called two weeks ago and talked directly to the township commissioners meeting. Oops, they had dropped us through a crack and the order never got sent in. They would get on it. My husband was persistent and called this week again and they assured him they would be here this week.

Miracles do happen, they finally showed up today and put the drain tube in and dug out the ditches. Naturally they are now calling for heavy rain tonight so we will have an interesting mess out front until they get around to re-rocking the road but hey! We got us a drain tube! Yay!

And it only took three years! 40 feet by 16 inches.




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Yaaay! So glad the squeaky wheel finally got the grease! (It's an election year, right? Lol)

 

[microchick]

Yeah, the old road commissioner got voted out. Yay. The guy who wasn't plowing the road got caught up with and fired. They are hoping things will be better. So are we. It would be nice to get our road plowed over January and February when the snow can pile up.

Yeah, it could be your potassium. When my hands stopped working my thumb and fingers were frozen together like I was making shadow puppets. Couldn't budge them. Even with the IV potassium it took me almost 24 hours for them to loosen up to the point I could use them a little. I was pretty messed up from it so I can sympathize with how you are feeling. Hopefully the doc put you on slow K.

We actually have some storms moving in. Yippee! Heading out to feed the kitties and torment the cattle dogs for a bit. Night all.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

@microchick, I had to have potassium IV when I had covid at the end of 2020, early '21... that stuff BURNS. After 3 units I flat refused any more, my vein was fried. It was awful. So glad I was able to swallow the horse pills last night! I couldn't when I had the covid, could not swallow anything, even water. Everything smelled and tasted like sewage.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Night, Chickie!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I ended up with chicken salad sandwich. Didn't really hit the spot though

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I have occasional hypokalemia also. It can make you feel tired. I've wound up in the ER getting IV potassium pumped into me

Same here. The meds do burn!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Nobody's feeling very spiffy tonight. We had GF cornbread for dinner. Thst's all, just corn bread! DH drowned his in buttermilk, as always. GC put margarine and honey on hers and ate it with a fork, with a glass of soy milk. I took a pass, not being all that keen on corn bread, and opted for a bowl of Cheerios with milk. Later, still hungry, I had a chocolate rice cake with peanut buutter and sliced ripe banana, sprinkled with a little Truvia and cinnamon. Deee-licious!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Cornbread crumbled in milk is how the past generation ate it here. I didn't care for that. Just lots of butter for me.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yes, if I can get some really good, sweet, moist cornbread, I will eat it in a bowl with butter, honey and milk (NOT buttermilk, thanks!). But DH does not like sweet, fluffy, cake-like "Northern" cornbread. Guess I will have to make just for me and eat it all by myself, lol.

 

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