I think we have all pretty much watched that infamous show involving humungous people. I always feel so bad for them. Being addicted to food is deadly. Drugs, alcohol and tobacco you can quit cold turkey, or close to, and easily avoid the stuff forever more. I am not saying it's easy, but easier than food! You still have to eat, several times a day. Imagine a drug addict being given an unlimited supply of their drug of choice then being told they can only take a small inadequate amount three times a day. How successful would that be?
As you know my Monte man has to take a medication that keeps him ravenously hungry all the time. It really upsets him and makes him angry. I have heard him say numerous times how pissed off he is that he is always hungry. And even though he never eats a ton of stuff, the medication makes the people taking these meds balloon out to unimaginable sizes. I am not saying he is 600 pounds but he may as well be. His one advantage over a lot of the ones we see on the show, he has slim legs and butt. The weight is concentrated on his trunk. He is very heavy through his upper body.
A couple of weeks ago he was sitting on the couch. He put his hand on the arm of the couch and pushed, hard, to stand up. His hand slipped off the arm and he went down with a hell of crash. When you reach a certain size, falling is a very serious thing. Firstly it shocked him, then he struggled to get up, and then he had to take a few minutes to adjust his brain around it. And he did. He happily carried on.
But....Slowly over the couple of weeks since it happened his back started to hurt, and it escalated to where now he can hardly walk without taking huge amounts of aspirin...and even then he has to freeze to the spot and not move. When he does move, the pain is such that it makes him gasp...sounds like nerve pain as opposed to muscle. And it is not getting better. I would take him up to the hospital to get it checked out but we already know he is too heavy for the X-ray table and they wouldn't be able to do an X-ray anyway, so what would be the point? By chance, for another matter, he has a doctor appointment on Tuesday. We shall see.
I got a call from The Brick, my fridge is being delivered next Friday, a week from today. Great news and all but I have no idea how we are going to move the old one downstairs. I am going to try to get the guy that built the wall, Stewart, to maybe move it. I am also going to get him to haul all the garbage in the carport to the dump. That carport is full. I can't believe I have so much garbage out of the sheds. I moved that crap here when I moved and I thought I had discarded a ton back then, but clearly not enough! The one thing I would have loved to keep, all my awesome footwear, got royally chewed up by the rats, little bastards. They did a lot of destruction to a lot of stuff out there. The joys of living beside a grocery store.
My bro and his squeeze are coming for, and bringing, dinner Sunday night. We love love love having them over! Antonia phoned me yesterday from Costco in Courtenay to ask what would we like for dinner? She listed off a few things like lasagna, shepherd's pie, Mac and cheese.....Well!!!
A hundred years ago, in Bamfield, both Kathy and kids, Stan and Antonia and us were at the house there. We decided to have a Mac and cheese cook off! So Antonia, Kathy and I each made our own style of m&c and we had all 11 people sit at the table for dinner. I had large paper plates which I drew lines on to divide the plate in three. Then we put a glob of m&c on each section, which I had numbered. We ate. Then I passed a prepared gridded paper with the appropriate 11 names with three numbered boxes beside their name. They were to tick the box of their fave dish. Well, I won! But Monte, Kathy and I ticked Antonia's!!!! It was to die for!!!!!
Mine is like cheese sauce soup with macaroni floating around in it. Antonia's was an adult version, baked, drier, buttery crumbs on top, a mixture of cheeses and absolutely delicious. Kathy's? Kraft dinner with a can of tomatoes in it! And OMG!! That was def Spod's fave!!!! His mommy used to make tomatoey m&c and add chopped left over pork. He loved loved loved that!!!!
So when I heard her Mac and cheese suggestion I jumped on it! We took a quick march down memory lane and had a good laugh!
Well that's my food talk for this post! Time to get this day started. I took aspirin down to monte a couple of hours ago so he should be able to rise and shine. There is a lot of work to do and Graeme, bless his heart, is staying a few days longer to give him a hand. Graeme is such a good person and such a valuable friend. How he manages to put up with us like he does is a bit of a miracle. Take care, be safe and TTYL
— Garry Shandling
How scary! I am not surprised he is in pain so much later. Its not uncommon. Poor guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing. And mac and cheese is my favorite food on earth.
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