The "My Dad Amazes Me", edition.

Good Monday morning!  Saturday the blizzard on the east coast made me want some comfort food. I guess I was commiserating or something. I wanted some smothered potatoes with onions.   I also decided I wanted to make French onion soup. The soup requires Gruyere cheese. That requires a trip to one of the few places in town that we've found so far that sells it. The only cheese store I've found is way over in Henderson.  The market similar to Westborn is in the far southwest. The closest store is Whole Paycheck...er .. Whole Foods. Anyway. We did some errands and were near a Whole Foods so we stopped in to get the cheese. We left with the cheese, a baguette, some truffled cheddar, parmasan reggiano, 3 bottles of wine, toffee cookies and chocolate shortbread cookies that surprised Brian with a Hersey kiss in the middle. $70.00. Whole Paycheck indeed!  Oh and I made a note of the cost of a 5 pound bag of russet potatoes..$3.99.  We chuckled as we left and said we made our biannual trip lol.  

Next stop was Smiths. Also known as Krogers to my Michigan folks. The russets there were like $1.50. Ha!  More stuff, less cost. And. That Smiths sells Gruyere. And it cost less. We've found that we can find certain items in different parts of town. For the record, we were at a Smiths in Summerlin, and Summerlin could remind one of Birmingham, Michigan. 

Saturday morning, on the way to our weekly one hour casino visit , "It Takes 2", Rob Base and DJ Eazy Rock comes on. Dad comments that parts of the song sounds familiar. We tell him about sampling and the use of James Brown music.  And he recalls seeing MCs doing the  turntable thing. He then asks us about the girl who says "somebody slap me" in Klymaxx, "Meeting in the Ladies Room". !!!!    !!!!!  He then says he pulled the video up on YouTube to see if it made sense. !!!!!!!!  !!!!!!   !!!!!!!!!! Lol. My dad listens to old school R and B on the Bose radio he bought, uses Shazam oh his phone and looks up songs on YouTube!  He'll be 90 in April!  He continues to amaze me!   Anyway. We told him the slap me phrase was just her catchphrase. It meant nothing. 

On the dialysis front, we forgot to administer the heparin last night.  Heparin reduces blood clots.  And sure enough, an hour in, the machine stats to holler about a blood clot. Unfortunately when that error happens, treatment has to stop... now. Do not pass go do not collect $200.  Brian wants to blame himself, but it's always a partnership.  I was to busy watching America's Funniest Videos and caught it too late. What do I mean by too late?  The administering of the heparin comes after I've cannulated...stuck the needles into myself. The heparin goes into the venous needle tubing..the needle that has the blood flow going into me. By the time I looked up, I was already attached to the cartridge (machine) tubing. You say, well unattach and administer that heparin. And I say,  well no. The sterilization of all the items have been compromised. Once I'm connected to anything it needs to stay that way, opening up anything at that point compromises the sterility of the equipment and makes me susceptible to infection. Brian would have had to take down the entire apparatus and start all over again.  We agreed to go ahead. And well. We should have restarted. Lesson learned. Clotting ensued and session ended. I did get 1kg of fluid ad toxins removed. We'll do treatment tonight. 

We're getting rid of clothes we don't wear and I'm giving up my wool coat. And as if to underscore my decision, the temp is going into to mid to upper 60s this week. I'm also tossing a beloved purse. I won't use it anymore. We're going to go to Target to get grooming items to put in the purse before we donate it. 

That's it for today.  Enjoy your day!