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August,

 AA> You spasm when standing on a scale for a few seconds? Man,
 AA> that's weird.

  If it's real low, like the one in the bathroom, and I have the walls
to place my hands on, it'll keep me steady. But, the ones in the medical
clinic, where I have to step up on them, and have nothing to hold on to,
that gets dangerous...and I'm a Fall Risk. As a side note, I like the meme
that notes the scales in the medical clinic, and it says "These things
offend me!! They need to be removed!!". 

 AA> Just having some boiled eggs in the fridge can come in handy
 AA> from time to time.  And.. you don't have to throw them out when
 AA> the electricity goes out or a day or two.  You DO know how to
 AA> boil water, don't you?

  I can burn water.  Yet, I haven't used the stove here...let alone
turned on any of the TV sets, in the last 4 years...since I put my Mom
in a nursing home before her death.

 AA> There are numerous FRESH foods you can prepare sitting at the
 AA> kitchen table and that do not need serious cooking.

 AA> Pork chops and skinless chicken come out quite well in the
 AA> microwave.  A baked potato comes out perfect in the microwave.

  The harder part is finding food low in sodium...but with only given
a paltry amount of money on disability each month, and the price of
groceries are through the roof (the price of low sodium foods are on
the moon), I can't afford it. It's likely I have to cut my diet to
only 1 meal a day, with a very small quanitity of food, just to take
my medicine...then eat nothing else the rest of the day. That's not
very nutritious, though.

  Plus, I'm looking at cardiac ablation surgery in early June...while
that will possibly get rid of the atrial fibrillation, but I may still
have to deal with congestive heart failure. I can deal with being on
Lasix once a day...I just do my errands early in the day (I have to be
up before the buttcrack of dawn to do my vital signs), and take it when
I get home.

Daryl

... Junior!! Quit Playing With Your Floppy!!
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