So I've been thinking that since garbanzo beans seem to be low on the glycemic index, and I already have one way of using garbanzo flour in a thing to replace a wheat flour thing, I ought to look at making garbanzo flour things ( Read more... )

I think it has been three weeks since I've written about Gloria. It has not been an uneventful three weeks ( Read more... )

llygoden's fault ( Read more... )

So yesterday we moved Gloria from Watsonville Community to Pacific Coast Manor, a "skilled nursing facility." I'm pissed off at Watsonville Community. They had given her Halidol Wednesday night because she was anxious and trying to leave. Okay, I understand treating the anxiety medically, but the Halidol did not wear off for about eighteen hours ( Read more... )

Gloria was much improved yesterday. We took her for a couple of short walks and some turns in the wheelchair. She still screamed when they took her blood pressure -- she tolerated the manual cuff better than the automatic one. She kept telling me to go away when she was agitated. I wrote down some of thethings she said. For a while she was ( Read more... )

Okay, the Gloria thing. The doctor says yes, she thinks it's the urinary tract infection. She has a nice doctor, actually, youngish, Hispanic, sweet-voiced and smart. But the doctor thinks she should not be discharged to home when she's stabilized and eating again, because she's gone beyond home care. We're all pretty well agreed that we're at ( Read more... )

So along about 4:30 in the afternoon, Gloria woke up from a nap saying she was so sick which is not a construction she usually uses. She was gesturing at her face and lower abdomen in ways that have meaning but they have too many meanings to be sure of right off the bat. Her skin was bright red and she was hot to the touch. I decided she had to ( Read more... )

Bulgarika played at the Caygua Vault tonight. If you're in California, follow the link and you too can be amazed by the astounding Ivan Malev, the most mind-boggling accordionist you'll ever see. You kind of have to see him as well as hear him, because he's all showmanship. He looks rather like the Good Soldier Schweik (in the illustrated ( Read more... )

Everybody else seems to have their "Friday Something Blogging." I've been dithering because the things I take pictures of are only around part of the year. So I decided I would do that: seasonal pictures.

( Two pictures below the cut: laying pipe and slitting the plastic in a berry field on Calabasas Road )

If it seems like I'm seeing a lot of movies lately, it's because I am. Gloria can't do very many things but she has an appetite for experience yet, and movies and lunch are the two things she can almost always do. Sometimes it's hard to find a movie she can watch. So I figured that since she had enjoyed the first fifteen minutes or so of "The ( Read more... )