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Yabbey

Yabbey has been at the vet now for just over a week.  She is in good spirits despite everything when I go to see her.  She quit eating and drinking over a week ago and so I took her into se Dr Collin.  They gave her fluid and some medicine, but unfortunately that didn’t work and we were back the next day as she was dehydrated.  The third day it wasn’t better so they had to admit her and put her on fluids.  After a few days on fluids they did a scan and discovered that her lymph nodes were larger than they should be and so was part of her intestine.  We made the decision to do the biopsy even though it was a fairly major surgery for her.  She made it through the surgery and was looking really well, however during surgery they discovered her liver wasn’t in good shape either.  They also put a feeding tube in her neck to force some food into her as she was going on a week without food at that point.

I have been able to spend some time with her most days and se hope to have the test results on Monday so we can figure out how far along the lymphoma is and what type it is as the treatments vary greatly.  Unfortunately we will have some big decisions to make next week.

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Cooking has become a lost art

As you know I applied for the Cook the Farm program in Sicily for 2018.  I read an interesting article this morning in the Wall Street Journal regarding cooking and the current attitudes towards it.  It actually didn’t surprise me, but it is still sad that so many people have lost touch with actually cooking their food.  This is one of the reasons I want to attend the Cook the Farm program.  I think that more people need to learn to appreciate their food and where it comes from.

 

Just a few facts from the article:

The trend is true across age groups, but is strongest among millennials, the nation’s largest demographic group. About 42% of millennials’ monthly food budget is spent on food prepared outside the home, more than any other generation, according to a survey of 1,500 U.S. consumers last year by Acosta. Millennials spent an average of $202 a month on food prepared outside the home last year, up from an average of $159 in 2015.

Baby boomers, who don’t often cook for large households, are also turning to prepared foods. Joan Shuman, a 68-year-old retired federal government employee in Eatontown, N.J., said she frequently buys prepared salads from Wegmans Food Markets Inc. to go along with her dinner.

The rise of dual-income and single-parent households too busy to cook has also fueled the trend. In today’s on-the-go culture in which people feel so pressed for time they rarely leave their desks for lunch anymore, consumers are increasingly grabbing small bites. “What we’ve uncovered is round-the-clock snacking,” Taco Bell Chief Executive Brian Niccol said in a recent interview.

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Morning run

So this morning I had a 5 mile run, my longest run in a long time. With the heat here I got up and was out the door by 4:30 this morning. Even then it was 80F!

Surprisingly the run was very easy! The first mile was dry, the second it started to sprinkle and the 3rd was a complete downpour for about 10 minutes. I suppose that help make it cooler. The only thing I could complain about was running in wet socks and shoes… never fun.

I was happy with my splits as the goal was to keep them around 12 minutes.

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Cooking School

So this afternoon is a big afternoon after several years I have finally gotten the nerve to apply to the Cook the Farm program in Sicily.  I have submitted my application today, so it is now I just wait to find out if I was accepted!

 

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