Today I Learned...

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I saw deep fried butter on an episode of Carnival Eats once. Disgusting.

Probably better cooked in lard.

Oh, yes.

BTW, how are your new meds working for you?

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Oh, yes.

BTW, how are your new meds working for you?

Thanks for asking. Like Capt. said, takes a while. I've been told can take months and months for the body to dissolve all the uric acid crystals. That's after possible months of dialing in the correct med dosage. Right now I feel like all my muscles are done, like I just wrestled an alligator yesterday and every muscle hurts. Can barely get up and walk, but no gout like pains, so that's something. Taking it day by day.

I need to go get my pneumonia and shingles shots. Also 30 years overdue for tetanus. I remember that one hurts.

How you doing?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Thanks for asking. Like Capt. said, takes a while. I've been told can take months and months for the body to dissolve all the uric acid crystals. That's after possible months of dialing in the correct med dosage. Right now I feel like all my muscles are done, like I just wrestled an alligator yesterday and every muscle hurts. Can barely get up and walk, but no gout like pains, so that's something. Taking it day by day.

I need to go get my pneumonia and shingles shots. Also 30 years overdue for tetanus. I remember that one hurts.

How you doing?

Welp, as long as your muscles are hurting, you might as well get the tetanus shot - As I recall, it don't hurt as bad as the "peanut butter" shot -

How am I doing? The medicare people made me go get my annual physical yesterday. Yep, I can still fog a mirror - barely. They want me to get another colon scoping - UGH! I just had one about a year ago. I reckon they will keep looking till they find something -

OK, time fer ma nap - my secret to .... to .... to ...... (I forget???).

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I need to go get my pneumonia and shingles shots. Also 30 years overdue for tetanus. I remember that one hurts.

It's a "it depends" thing really. I got the first Shingles and a Tetanus shot on the same day (one on the left, the other on the right). I was a little sore on the Tetanus side but nothing worse than a bee sting.

Then again, I rarely have any reaction to a shot. I've had four Covid shots, and no reaction of any type.

So, in the last 18 months, I've had 4 COVID shots, two Shingles shots, one flu shot, and a tetanus shot. Besides typing this hanging upside down from the ceiling, everything is normal....

[86-75309]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

It's a "it depends" thing really. I got the first Shingles and a Tetanus shot on the same day (one on the left, the other on the right). I was a little sore on the Tetanus side but nothing worse than a bee sting.

Then again, I rarely have any reaction to a shot. I've had four Covid shots, and no reaction of any type.

So, in the last 18 months, I've had 4 COVID shots, two Shingles shots, one flu shot, and a tetanus shot. Besides typing this hanging upside down from the ceiling, everything is normal....

Besides the covid boosters I've had 4 different blood tests, a couple of radioactive tracer IVs for PET/CT scans and a couple of anesthesia IVs for surgeries in the last 9 months. It seems like I'm always either donating or receiving something or another.

[spcmafia]

TIL, that the reason the wife sometimes goes into work late is because the cat has figured out how to press snooze on the cellphone alarm.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by humfrz

My parents never had a BBQ grill -

your parents never did a pig roast pit?!?

looks like it's made of everything a hog farmer has laying around!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soundman98

your parents never did a pig roast pit?!?

looks like it's made of everything a hog farmer has laying around!

Yep, that be true. However, I don't ever remember butchering or eating pork on our farm (except for bacon). Grandpa would trade the butcher beef halves for slabs of bacon and lard. He would lay the slabs of bacon out on planks on sawhorses in the barn to cure. One of my chores was to rub down the slabs of bacon with coarse salt and raw sugar, twice a day, on each side.

We also raised milk cows, chickens, sheep and beef. We ate lots of meat - just not hogs (cept bacon) - why not?

Maybe we didn't BBQ because it was hard to deep fat fry meat in lard over a BBQ -

[soundman98]

TIL that some farmers don't eat what they raise!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by 86-75309

Besides the covid boosters I've had 4 different blood tests, a couple of radioactive tracer IVs for PET/CT scans and a couple of anesthesia IVs for surgeries in the last 9 months. It seems like I'm always either donating or receiving something or another.

YIKES! Have you considered getting a medical port implanted? -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

TIL, that the reason the wife sometimes goes into work late is because the cat has figured out how to press snooze on the cellphone alarm.

And the cat erased her homework data from her laptop?

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

It's a "it depends" thing really. I got the first Shingles and a Tetanus shot on the same day (one on the left, the other on the right). I was a little sore on the Tetanus side but nothing worse than a bee sting.

Then again, I rarely have any reaction to a shot. I've had four Covid shots, and no reaction of any type.

So, in the last 18 months, I've had 4 COVID shots, two Shingles shots, one flu shot, and a tetanus shot. Besides typing this hanging upside down from the ceiling, everything is normal....

I also normally don't have any reaction to injections. My covid shots were nothing. I do remember the tetanus drug itself hurting in the muscle for a few days, but that was 30+ years ago. Maybe they have perfected it a bit.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soundman98

your parents never did a pig roast pit?!?

looks like it's made of everything a hog farmer has laying around!

Need a rotating spit and the pig intact to do it right!

This was last Saturday.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Need a rotating spit and the pig intact to do it right!

This was last Saturday.

This is the way.