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Skriven 2009-04-03 20:44:22 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 22706 av PETER COGGON (1:123/140)
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Hi Peter,

 RH> That's not a problem; I'm running behind thanks to my husband's Army
 RH> retirement plans.  He will be attending seminary in North Carolina so

 PC>    When I retired, it was due to really wanting to, but the extreme
 PC> problems of pills, 3 or 4 specialists, and a long way back after
 PC> a major cancer operation, which loss me a kidney.

Sounds like it was not a fun time. I got off light compared to you.


 RH> No, it doesn't let you out. We can all learn from you, maybe changing
 RH> our diet for  the better.  Steve and I are the ones here into whole
 RH> grains (brown rice, whole wheat bread & pasta, etc)--sort of

 PC>    When I cook here, it is usually done hospital style whenever
 PC> so as steamed egg in a fry pan with only water, so it looks good
 PC> to me.  Silly but true.

That's all that matters some days.  Then there are other days when you
might reach for parsley to add a garnish or do egg in the eye (egg
cooked in a circle cut out of a slice of bread) instead.  I know both
feelings--my biggest bug a bear was and still is fatigue.


 PC>    My first trip into Brasil, was done with , as suggested, open
 PC> eyes, ears and mind ....worked wonderfully as I wandered through
 PC> the none tourist areas and met real people.   Also less banditos.

 RH> I've seen that in just about every place we've lived to some extent.
 RH> It's more obvious in places like Hawaii where most tourists don't get
 RH> past Waikiki in Oahu.  Just a street or two in back of the main beach
 RH> front one it's a totally different picture of Honolulu.

 PC>    Yes, you have experienced it then, so nothing to shatter your image
 PC> and Jamacia is the same.

I've never been to Jamacia and would probably look at it with a
different eye than the average tourist.

 RH> You will have to post some of your wife's recipies (or get her
 RH> involved).  I understand on the medical tests; it seems like every
 RH> doctor wants to "verify" and has the same tests done that the last
 RH> doctor did.

 PC>    OK, they need translated, but I will let her know on my next
 PC> communications pass and we have a chance to chat.   As mentioned

Sounds good; we all enjoy reading new recipes.


 PC> before, and all my meds, when the 4 specialists get me, it is usually
 PC> hey what happened ...go back to where you were.

Such fun and joy! (G)


 PC> Not all the tests are the same, as each has his field or interest
 PC> and office visits, are sometimes examinations, which verify by the
 PC> score I am thinking of moving to south America.

I see.  It can be very frustrating, can't it?


 RH> Some break thrus will be made but I don't think there will ever be a
 RH> complete eradication of cancer.  It's too easily mutated into various
 RH> forms to ever guarantee a full cure.

 PC> Yes, I still go out for the Cancer events even donning skates and
 PC> attempting to play hockey as in days of yor, but while the game plan
 PC> kicks in
 PC> I lack the offensive power, and all I have left is the playmaking
 PC> sense to slow a game down to organize, but I have lost 90% of the

The mind wants to go full steam ahead but the body puts on the brakes
almost as soon as you skate out?  I know the feeling.

 PC> I pull myself...and now no more, even if it was only done to show
 PC> my wife what she read about me, and she could say she saw me play
 PC> and skate.    Banned from skates by the medical folks.

Same as Steve never saw me on anything but cross country skis, not
downhill, which I had to give up (among other things).  I've got metal
in both wrists and the left elbow.


 PC> I know it will be never beaten, and I know next time, I am going to
 PC> feel worse then how I feel now, and that to me, has meant life
 PC> not worth living.

I try to look for at least a bit of a bright spot. Even a real "downer"
has one or two.  Besides, I have other ways to keep going.

 RH> As for chocolate, your wife is
 RH> pretty well like most women.  It seems women like it more than (most)
 RH> men.  Does she like the dark better than milk or vice versa? I like it
 RH> really dark, sometimes with a touch of mint. The "white chocolate"
 RH> isn't really chocolate IMO and milk chocolate is on the edge of being
 RH> considered "real" chocolate. (G)

 PC> My wife likes to collect and make her own choclate, as also the forms
 PC> to make the easter eggs.  unfortunately, and I wish not to offend her
 PC> I accept them ..but let her finish them off.   Dark chocolate is her
 PC> thing.

It sounds like she would fit in quite well here.  At last year's picnic,
Michael brought some different chocolates, including some with hot
pepper and one with bacon in them.


 RH> He's a sweet guy; we met in January, 1972 & got married in September,
 RH> 1975 without really seeing much of each other and not really dating
 RH> between. He proposed just before taking me for a seafood meal in
 RH> North Carolina. (G)  We have 2 grown daughters and 2 grand children.

 PC> I think this way about Maria.

Why am I not surprised? (G)


 RH> I've not had problems with that, cancer related. I've had enough
 RH> broken bones (some quite severely) that tend to keep me awake.  During
 RH> the day I try to keep busy enough so I don't notice the pain; at night,
 RH> when I'm trying to relax & sleep, it hits me.

 PC> My first pains were hockey related, and the number of games played
 PC> and then the finals and on to upper levels and into Internationals.
 PC> Now they are all coming back to haunt me, but I don't complain as
 PC> those who inflicted those injurys were taken care of.

 RH> The lack of humidity in the Middle East or the sand baking your bones?


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Ruth
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