My leukemia's back.

[ronott1]

Good morning everyone, hope you all have a good Saturday

I am going to play with the new mandoline slicer that was delivered yesterday...and drink coffee...

 

[N F C]

I am going to play with the new mandoline slicer that was delivered yesterday...and drink coffee...

Be super careful with the mandolin Ron. I do ok with ours but DH took the very tip of one finger off working with it. They are handy tools but a tad on the dangerous side!

 

[ronott1]

Be super careful with the mandolin Ron. I do ok with ours but DH took the very tip of one finger off working with it. They are handy tools but a tad on the dangerous side!

I know!

I learned my lesson on stuff like that working as a Meat Clerk for Safeway--I took the tip off of my finger slicing ham. It was very bad and I still have a dead spot there.

This one has a nice guard that is supposed to be used when you get down to the end of things. It also will make waffle slices. Today I am making hash browns with it.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I am going to play with the new mandoline slicer that was delivered yesterday...and drink coffee...

oh cool I want one of those!!

 

[donrae]

Count me in the Dead Fingertip club. Mine was just from a plain old knife, not paying attention. Left thumb. Honey has one too, I think the left thumb also.

I'm not at all offended or upset at the glasses pics, I think some of them are pretty bizarre, though!

Managed 30 min on the treadmill today, so the lungs are doing better. Had to have Honey pull a bale of hay out for me to open, though, they were wedged in too tight for me to extract one. Just not strong enough

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I have a pampered chef mandoline I bought right before i relapsed. I've never even taken it from the box. I'm not really positive where it is, now that I think about it. Maybe I'll look for that, now that I've got some platelets and white count and am making my own blood again.

Funny thing--I checked my worm bin last night, hadn't opened it for about 2 weeks i think. I'd put some carrot tops in there that are now sprouting, and something I can't identify is also sprouted and growing nicely

. The worms seem content, so I'm just going to leave it. Maybe it will be my new indoor garden?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Good for you on the lungs!!!
Really busy...tried to change the rear ujoint on my truck and strap bolt broke in the yoke....looks like I'll be drilling it out...laying under the truck though in soak and wet....snowing like crazy and getting cold.....ice should be getting better again.

 

[Suzie]

Rachel...I do have to laugh at some of our similarities...

I too am exhausted at trying to just pull hay from bales.;here the bales are about 6 ft round 4 ft high and I do not have the strength to extract hay from them..;they are also packed tightly together...what annoys me is that my Husband has a tractor that can easily pull a bale forward for me to break open...he is far too busy with "other THINGS" to help...I have to nag him and he tells me that the keys to the tractor are available to me....gggrrrrhhhh! I purchased the tractor for him to use...cost a fortune and he would freak if I ever tried to use it...he tells me that his tasks are....construction and fuel...anything else is my task...well....I vote that fuel is feed for my animals...are you with me on this one? I also advocate that food for us to eat is fuel for our bodies...so he should cook for us sometimes...not just Christmas day!

I too have a mandoline...so far I have not attempted to use it...! I am a disaster in the kitchen at the best of times....I can just imagine my Husband coming into the kitchen and seeing the lack of my fingers as I have sliced them into the food...well it would save my nurse from having to do my next blood tests...she can put one of my fingers into a container to send to the lab for testing...

Seriously...hope your lung functions improve now on the 20mg of prednisone...my Husband, Hospital Doctor, GP and nurse are not aware that I stopped using prednisone 2 years ago...I personally felt that drugs for my RA were taking me over...I am so very lucky that I felt no ill effects from making the decision to stop the steroids...I had them in England some years ago and felt no benefit from them...I do understand that you do not want them...BUT YOU NEED them...you will in time reduce the dosage but you have to remember that what is good for us is not always what we want...listen to Little Lake Phil...he can give you advice that the rest of us cannot....we all love you so much and want you to have the quality of life that you deserve...

As a sagittarian...you have an amazingly indomitable spirit...that is so evident in your posts and your resolve....

Sending Love and respect for being YOU

 

[Blooie]

I love my mandolin - actually I love both of them..the one I play and the one I use for cooking! Mine also has a guard, but it would seem that while I've mastered it, Ken hasn't. When I had Kendra in Salt Lake at the Shriner's Hospital, he and Little Diane were on their own. So they decided that cutting up that leftover roast beef and carrots, some onions and some thin sliced potatoes must be the way I make roast beef hash, right?

Well, I got a phone call. Little Diane wanted to know if Grampa should go to the hospital. Seems he shaved off the tip of his index finger using the mandolin. Um, no, he doesn't need to to the hospital - how bad is it? "Well," she mused, "It's bleeding pretty good and he's swearing - a lot." Oh, good...then it's not serious. If he gets hurt and just stands there with his jaws clenched, THEN it's hospital time. But as long as his cusser is working, he's okay.

When I got home two days later, Ken was sporting a huge bandage on his finger. But they both proclaimed that the hash was every bit as good as what I make......then Little Diane added, "We never did find the skin off his finger, though." Oh, GROSS....I DON'T want to know that!!!

 

[lazy gardener]

Blooie, you crack me up!

Hubby shaved the tip off one finger with a "jointer". Not once, but twice!

 

[donrae]

Blooie--that's too funny! That's how my Mom decides if my Dad needs to go to the hospital also. Loud complaining, very vocal, those are usually things that can wait or just be medicated at home. Quiet, withdrawn, not talking---call the ambulance. Men. Sheesh.

Phil--quit laying in the cold and wet! Are you trying to get pneumonia? Do you remember how great it is being in the hospital? You like being woke up all night to take your vitals? Men. Sheesh.

Suzie--I wish I was confident enough to start using the tractor. Ours lacks power steering and I'm not sure I have the strength to turn it. Wouldn't help me with the hay, but I could do other things. Not so much now, it's too muddy to use it. Mud. Sheesh.

I lost my last Faverolles pullet last night. So I'm probably going to list my cockerel for sale. He's way too nice a bird to just hang out here, and I'm cockerel heavy already. He's so dorky he's lovable, I hope someone just falls in love with him and makes him a lap chicken.