It looks like the current plan is working, namely, one new pill before eating and a short walk after eating and as little salt as pragmatism permits.<\/p>\n
I think of the new medication as the pump-priming-pill.\u00a0 It tells the stomach to get ready to process food so when the food arrives 30 minutes later the muscles are not caught dozing.\u00a0 They are ready to pump it on through to the next sequence in the digestive process. Since last Thursday\u2019s supper this seems to be working.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve taken several short walks each day.\u00a0 Usually we head out the back door and pass through a gate into a corner of the horse pasture.\u00a0 When the horses are near one or more will come over for a little TLC.\u00a0 So far we haven\u2019t take carrots or other treats because they can get a little frisky under such conditions.\u00a0 At this stage we don\u2019t need frisky!\u00a0 We circle through a bit of the pasture and past the small barn and the water trough and so we can keep track of the water level.\u00a0 Our other path is out the front door and up to the mail box.\u00a0 Either trip is about 150 yards.\u00a0 Today was wet and cold and Nancy had a blood draw scheduled so after that we went to the grocery story and walked and shopped. \u00a0On Sat & Sun the walks followed the eating but today it didn\u2019t work that way and the pill, food, stomach things still seem to be working.<\/p>\n
The low salt aspect is more difficult.\u00a0 The grocery makes a nice chicken salad and so Nancy has had cereal for breakfast and chicken salad for her other meals.\u00a0 To break the monotony I simmered thick pork steaks with chopped onions and a can of chopped tomatoes until the meat was very tender.\u00a0 With this she got sliced peaches and mashed potatoes.\u00a0 We trekked through the grocery store to the deli counter to buy another pound of chicken salad only to find an empty larder.\u00a0 So, \u2026\u00a0 The rotisserie lemon-chickens were on sale.<\/p>\n
Using telephone and e-mail, we have spent much time over the weekend updating and getting updated about our lives and that of others from our past.\u00a0 Some of you will remember that I (John) used to write a somewhat convoluted Christmas\/New Year\u2019s story and mail it out.\u00a0 Then the internet arrived big time and the frequent back-&-forth with some led to a decline and then cessation of mailings. \u00a0Nancy\u2019s troubles have generated many reconnections and catching-up.\u00a0 We expect to keep at this.\u00a0 With Nancy\u2019s time not being consumed by teaching duties and other university (insert four letter word here<\/em>), we no longer have an excuse for not keeping up with friends from other times and places.<\/p>\n Well, she just told me she took that pump-priming-pill (P3<\/sup>) 10 minutes ago so I\u2019ve got just 20 minutes to not disappoint that stomach.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It looks like the current plan is working, namely, one new pill before eating and a short walk after eating and as little salt as pragmatism permits. I think of the new medication as the pump-priming-pill.\u00a0 It tells the stomach to get ready to process food so when the food arrives 30 minutes later the … Continue reading “MONDAY — So far,”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-7v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}