Sunday Dinner, June 28, 2009

See the question mark on that chef's serving tray? If you've been reading my blog for very long at all, you know what that means.

Diane ain't cookin' Sunday Dinner this week.

This is due to several different reasons, listed in no particular order:

1.} It's hotter than a French fried werewolf and I refuse to spend much time in a hot kitchen. It's 97F as I type this at 3:30 pm on Saturday afternoon. Supper tonight will be quick and easy, just as soon as I figure out what I'll be fixing.

2.} Lack of inspiration on the cook's part.

3.} Lack of inspiration coupled with the fact that it's the end of the month and the pantry is nearly bare, which greatly limits my options even if I were to suddenly become inspired.

As far as I'm concerned, we can either go out to eat somewhere cheap or stop and get sandwich stuff on the way home from church. I say somewhere cheap because as I said, it's the end of the month and the old bank account is about as empty as the pantry.

So, those are my plans for Sunday Dinner this week, or maybe I should more precisely say, my lack of plans.

What're your plans for Sunday Dinner? Feel free to share your menu/plans in the comments, although I feel obligated to warn you, if you're cooking something especially scrumptious or going out to eat at a yummy establishment I'll be terribly jealous of you. Don't let that stop you from sharing though.Some of you have asked in the comments here and on Facebook about Lamar's eye. Well, there's no news, still yet.

His eye remains the same and he's still on 2 different eye drops, 3 times a day, along with prednisone by mouth every other day. His left eye has normal vision from the center of the pupil to the outside of his eye, but from the center to the inside, toward his nose, his vision is gone, apparently permanently, unless God intervenes.

And remember the bloodwork the lab bungled? And Lamar and Jessica had to make that flying trip to Memphis so Lamar could give more blood samples? And we've waiting to hear from those samples that were sent on to another lab in California?

Well, guess what? They also lost and/or bungled those blood samples too!

So the nurse from the infectious disease specialist called yesterday morning to tell us that bad news, and to also tell us that the doctor was very unhappy about the lab's performance. The doctor then proceeded to call the lab and chewed out some butts, the end result being that the lab SENT A NURSE FROM MEMPHIS TO OUR HOME TO DRAW MORE BLOOD SAMPLES.

Yes, you read that correctly. We live 65 miles from Memphis and it's even farther if you factor in the distance to the doctor's office after you get into the city.

The doctor was livid about all the bungled tests and apparently she has some pull because about 4 pm Friday a nurse was in our living room drawing more blood samples from Lamar.

We're hoping and praying that these will finally yield some answers as to what caused Lamar's eye problems, but it's been so long since the initial problem that we're pretty much resigned to the fact that we may never know.Sunday would have been my Mama's birthday if she was still living. She was born June 28, 1929 and died April 13, 2005. I miss her every day.

Mama fought and lost a brave battle with cancer, dying less than 4 months from when Daddy died in December 2004.

I often think about how much Mama would have loved playing with Miss Emmy. Mama would have eaten her up with a spoon!

Happy birthday, Mama. I love you.

I wish you all a blessed, happy and COOL weekend, unless you live Down Under, in which case I hope you stay warm. ;o)

May God bless you with all you need and enough to share.