Monthly Archives: November 2021
Leftovers . . .
When I gave you the update on Monday night’s blog about my doctor follow-up visit, I forgot to include a few things.
My next appointment is for a month, so right before Christmas.
And I was also able to clarify a few things.
They did do a three-level fusion, C 4-5, C5-6, and C6-7. Alexandria, the P.A. kind of laughed when I asked if the bone used in my grafts came from one cadavers, or three cadavers. She said she didn’t know, but it was also some of my bone that had been sliced out to make room where the vertebrae were too close together. So I got a little bit of everybody in there.
I had been told that in a fusion, that there would be some limitations on how I could move my neck. For some reason, I assumed that was on the side to side movements, but that’s on a different part of the vertebrae.
So the only restriction I will have is how high or how low I can look down. So that should be OK.
As I mentioned Jan and I will be doing the Cracker Barrel thing for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I was surprised to find out that they will start serving Thanksgiving dinner at 7am, when they open.
We always also order two meals to go so we have leftovers. After all, it’s not really Thanksgiving without leftovers, is it.
In other news, Christmas has been cancelled . . . in Gibraltar, known as the ‘most vaccinated country in the world.’
Gibraltar Cancels Christmas Despite Entire Population Being Vaccinated
Gibraltar has cancelled official Christmas events and urged people to avoid gatherings to combat an “exponential” spike in COVID cases despite its entire adult population being fully vaccinated.
Overall this works out to 2.79 vaccinations per person. So everyone has been double-vaxxed, and most have had a booster.
Known as “the most vaccinated place on earth,” technically more than 118 per cent of the British Overseas territory’s population is fully vaxxed because Spaniards also enter the country to work every day.
Thought For The Day:
An Amazon Review For Ivermectn –
Now I Know Why The 3 Bears Were So Upset . . .
Our day started this morning with two Amazon deliveries, one of which was my Respawn Gaming Chair.
Of course I can’t start using it until I get somebody over here to get the old one out of the rig.
Before my recent unpleasantness, I could have done myself in an hour or so, but not now, especially with the 20# weight limit on what I can lift. So I’m going to try and get someone over here this weekend.
I also ordered a chair mat to go on the floor underneath it. It should be here Friday.
The second delivery was a couple of small shelving units for Jan. So it should be a busy weekend putting all this together.
Before we left the rig this afternoon, we fired up our old faithful workhorse Dodge Dakota for the first time in several months. We were going drop off the Jeep at my mechanic’s so he can take care of a couple things before our upcoming Branson trip starting the 4th of December.
Then it was up to Webster to have lunch at Snooze, our first visit in a while. They’ve got a new Holiday menu, and one of those items caught my so I decided to give it a try. And now I know why the 3 bears were upset with Goldilocks for messing with their porridge.
The new item, called Goldilock’s Porridge, was delicious.
Made with a mix of steel cut oats, quinoa and millet simmered in almond milk, and then topped with strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, bananas, toasted almonds and hemp seeds, it’s probably the best oatmeal-ish dish I’ve ever had.
And I paired it with an order of their special bacon, rubbed with brown sugar, cayenne, chili flakes and drizzled with black peppered maple syrup.
Jan went with her usual Bravocado Toast. So mundane.
Finishing up our afternoon, we made a Krogers stop for a prescription and a WalMart visit for some needed stuff before getting back to the rig a little after 4pm.
Today was my first day driving again since my operation, and it felt good to be back behind the wheel.
Thought For The Day:
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford
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