{"id":673,"date":"2011-11-14T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/i-love-men-who-can-cook.html"},"modified":"2011-11-14T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T04:37:00","slug":"i-love-men-who-can-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/i-love-men-who-can-cook.html","title":{"rendered":"I Love Men Who Can Cook!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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There are so many skills to be learned when cooking: math, nutrition, chemistry, physics!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Dave Update:<\/u><\/b>  We had a rough couple of days.  Incidentally, we had read another Axia-LIF patient’s online blog\/diary\/series of forum posts that read rather similarly.  At about the one-week point, the patient was feeling better, he thought he could move around a bit more.  But that was probably not the best idea.  So then at day 9, this patient was struck with the worst pain of his entire life.  Things calmed down for him by the two week point though.<\/p>\n

Dave had a similar experience.  So we ended up at the ER on Thursday night from the muscular spasm pain — described by Dave as “10 out of 10” on the pain scale, and on Saturday night Dave experienced the same pain.  He said it made the pre-surgery back problems nothing at all.  These spasms were happening at about the same time of the evening (around 10:30-11:00pm).  Instead of going straight to the ER again on Saturday night, this time I called Dave’s doctor and we discussed why these muscle spasms were happening.  He’s speculating that the muscles have been so traumatized by the 8 1\/2 years of back problems, they’ll need their own healing process.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we elected NOT to go the ER Saturday night, Dave took some ibuprofen and that actually seemed to help things quite a bit.  Up till Saturday night, he had NOT been taking any anti-inflammatories and taking some might have made all the difference.<\/p>\n

Today was much better for him, hopefully we’re over the hump and he can continue healing.  It was certainly a challenge keeping positive Thursday – Saturday and it’s nice to be thinking happy thoughts again.<\/p>\n

I Love Men Who Can Cook:<\/u><\/b>  Dave had this week’s Bear Cub Scout den meeting at our house, the boys had a cooking\/nutrition requirement and their normal meeting location didn’t have a kitchen readily available.  So the boys took over my kitchen.  I set out the ingredients and helped get the cookies in\/out of the oven, but that’s all I did.  While the cookies were baking, the boys made some trail mix — each scout brought over a package of one ingredient: M&Ms, peanuts, raisins, dried cranberries, and cereal.  It was really good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Oh I wish I had our real camera so I could better capture that egg falling into the bowl.  This was with my phone camera.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Okay, not the most attractive oatmeal cookies, but they sure were yummy!  I think the boys were scared of them!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Homemade trail mix – yum!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Dave Update:  We had a rough couple of days.  Incidentally, we had read another Axia-LIF patient’s online blog\/diary\/series of forum posts that read rather similarly.  At about the one-week point, the patient was feeling better, he thought he could move around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[8,20,178],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-aR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":682,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/11\/sweet-potatoes-veggie-or-not-veggie-take-my-poll.html","url_meta":{"origin":673,"position":0},"title":"Sweet Potatoes — Veggie or Not Veggie? 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