Michelle has been one tough cookie this week. She did not walk a lot this week, so I am thankful for the blood thinner, Eliquis. We’ve gotten into a routine now so getting into and out of bed, up and down from the couch and on and off the commode are simpler. She uses her upper body strength and I guide her legs and feet to where they need to be.
Insurance declined the PET scan, so it was rescheduled again. We will try next week.
There was an infection detected in her spinal fluid collected from IT therapy this week. She was put on horse pill antibiotics twice daily for 10 days. They will recheck the spinal fluid to make sure another IT treatment is safe. She has not seen the rain of side effects caused from the previous treatments. The infection could be from the spinal fluid, or the equipment used may have been contaminated somehow. We should know more by IT treatment time next week. She continues to stay positive and smile. She is one tough cookie.
Highlight of the week Peppermint flavored milkshake are back at Chick-fil-A. Chele and I both love the hand-spun old-fashioned way they make this festive milkshake. We stopped after IT treatment this week. Chele's favorite are the chips of peppermint bark mixed in the shake and of course the whipped cream and cherry on top.
Random Fact of the Week The record for the most cookies baked in one hour is held by Hassett’s Bakery of Cork Island. They baked 4,695 cookies in one hour. My mom came close one year when I visited. She made 469.5 cookies in her kitchen for Loaves and Fishes. The record for the biggest cookie is held by Immaculate Baking Company of Flat Rock, NC. In 2003, they baked the record-setting cookie, which measured 102 feet wide and weighed over 40,000 pounds. The record for the tallest tower of cookies was cast by the Girl Scouts of Nassau County. In 2010, they constructed a tower of cookies at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, NY. The tower measured 6 feet and ⅛-inch tall using 22,800 cookies to build the tower.
Did you know? Michelle made a Knick knack for each of her kids every year for Christmas. Each year here at the Luck house was a challenge for her to come up with new ideas, but she always came through. Sometimes she would start as early as July on her ideas.
Throwback Love Story I was working in Dallas in summer of 2012. I would commute on Monday morning and drive back to Austin on Thursday evenings. Chele and I were on a fitness kick, going to the gym 4 times a week. I went to the gym after work one night. I left my car, and I was headed into the gym when I was greeted by a black lab puppy. He was an abandoned dog; I could tell by the fleas and ticks littered on his body. Knowing that there was no way to keep a dog in my hotel I left him outside while I went in and had a 45-minute workout. When I was done, I came out and the puppy was still hanging out around the gym. It was after 7pm, I called Michelle to get her thoughts on the situation, she said “no” (I think she answered the phone saying no). I told her about the condition of the fleas and ticks. I told her I thought it was best if I just kept him over night then brought him to a shelter the next day, it just wasn’t safe for him to be out all alone. She agreed. I snuck him into the hotel that night and treated his fleas and tick problem, I gave him a bath and got him all nice and fresh. I had to work the next day, so I put a “Do not Disturb” sign up and left. I got a call from hotel management later in the day complaining about “my dog” in the room. I had called a few dog shelters that were full and even called the dog pound. Nobody wanted to take the dog, now that I had him all nice and cleaned up. I checked out of my hotel room and got a more pet friendly hotel and let Chele know the news. She was not happy. I suggested we find a good home for him, and the search was on.
That weekend I introduced “Harley” to Michelle. We had not named him yet, but I knew he was going to stay with us. I told Michelle that while I was gone for the week, maybe she could find a loving home for him to stay at. Some time throughout that weekend, while I was playing with him, I looked at her and I said, “He makes me so happy”. Her face was priceless, you could see the air being let out of the balloon. She quietly and softly said, “how and I supposed to get rid of him now?”
The bond they had was unbreakable. A dog is man’s best friend. Michelle loved that dog more than me on most days. He got ornery as the years went on, it was probably his cancer that did it to him, but he never stopped loving her, and she never stopped loving him. She actually had professional photos done with him.
Deep Thoughts There’s always some truth behind “just kidding”, knowledge behind every “I don’t know”, emotions behind “I don’t care” and pain behind “it’s okay”.
Oatmeal Raisin Daytime “Great British Bake Off” (Netflix), “Million Pound Menu” (Netflix), “Chopped” (YouTube TV), Football
Cookie Monster Primetime “Lessons in Chemistry” (Apple TV) (★★★★) One of the episodes made Chele cry. I had to pause the TV to comfort her. – In the 1950s, your reality was different. Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere; she accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of housewives way more than recipes.
“The Righteous Gemstones” (MAX). (★) I liked it, Chele was “not a fan”.
“Doctor Strange” (Disney+), “Iron Man” (Disney +), “The Weather?”
“Cookie Classics”
The Menu
Chips
THC Gummies
Peach ring candies
Pears
The Dough
Pork Chops (★★★★)
Sous Vide Chicken Breast (★★★)
Protein Shake
Chalupas (★)
Cajun Chicken Carbonara
Sausage Ravioli
Grilled Salmon
Fixins
Asparagus
Mashed Potatoes
Rice
Carrots
Love you,
Brian
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