All aboard the Seafour tour bus #2

[Seafour]

A new thread for us

Old thread in HDU with respiratory failure and terrified

My guilty pleasure when I've not been feeling great:

Basic yorkshire pud mix (3 - 4 heaped forks plain flour, salt, pepper, egg, milk and a little water to right consistency). Cook in a frying pan with a little oil.

Onion gravy (finely chopped/blitzed onion or shallot, stock cube/stock pot and hot water. A little cornflour in water to thicken).

Other finely chopped veg can be added to gravy if you want.

Not necessarily the most balanced meal, but my ultimate comfort food

Eggs in any form - even an omelette. Especially good if you have some new potatoes left over and they are fried off first, ditto bacon.
Baked potatoes with a filling.
Soup? (I make 'Sunday roast' soup with the leftovers from a roast meal - meat and stuffing goes into blender to mince, with any meat that's able to be cubed held back. Veg, including leftover roast, and gravy go in next, with as much hot water as is needed to slacken it to a soup texture. On to the hob for 5 mins to heat through well. Tastes delicious and dead easy! Any leftovers can be portioned into the freezer for a later date.)
What about a good old-fashioned pie if you have any frozen pastry (or he can but fresh). Again, any leftover meat can go in with a few cooked vegetables and a can of the relevant flavoured condensed soup. He could just put a top on if not confident.
Do you have any one pot recipes he could have a go at?

Hope these help, and onwards and upwards for your recovery.

Chicken soup and toast?

Mmm, I've not tried it, but heard about it.
Omelette is my go to fast food. Or beans on toast.
Pasta & pesto with some peas? Although if you have cheese in thr House.... 🤔 Your sorted 😁

Not exactly a meal but pancakes are my emergency food. Usually with Nutella and fruit. Nourishing and comforting.

I hope you found something to tempt your tastebuds Seafour, pleasant dreams.

Boiled eggs and toast was my uninspired dinner last night, life does seem to enjoy throwing challenges at us and today's is a bad back for dh. I have been telling him to take advantage of the hospital bed and to raise it when repositioning me but he kept saying "I'm fine" well today he's not fine.

I slept well but for the first time dh put Lola to bed in her crate and she barked for half an hour, so dh went and got her and she spent the night on the big bed. I have a sneaky suspicion that she has been having sleepovers with dh while I've been in hospital.

Thanks for the meal ideas, omelettes and jacket potatoes are the way forward I think.

Look what the little buslings found on our walk yesterday.

They're pretty! The mini buslings will have really enjoyed finding those.

Tesco do nice tortelloni that is good with a Dolmio tomato sauce. I'm fairly sure there was a comfort food thread, I'll have a look in the food topic.

Hello fellow buildings!

I'm back in civilisation after a few days in the smothering bosom of the Italian branch of the family. I think I might next eat on about 8th January...

Hope your day was good Seafour and that you get another good night's sleep.

PS - I suspect that you're right about the doggy sleepovers.

DH has completely fucked his back, I've nagged him every time he's been doing things for me to raise the bed but he said he didn't need to. Now he's in pain and can't bend at all, that would be fine if the live in help who should have started on the 27th had actually materialised but she didn't so today has been hard.
My ex dil came to the rescue this afternoon and we finally got to see the dgc which was lovely but exhausting.

Live in help will now start on the 2nd so until then we will struggle on together.

Oh no @Seafour. Sorry to hear that.
Hopefully things improve really fast for you.

Popped back on bus after a few days of celebrating my little mans ability to stand on his own for a few seconds!!!
He is an ex preemie so this is a massive milestone at 16 months (14 corrected) xxx

Whoop! Whoop! Well done minicrown!

Seafour, that's frustrating (in more ways than one), here's hoping for a speedy recovery for your dh.

I'm grumpy and sleep deprived today, the incompetence of someone at a very big teaching hospital sent my foster son into a tailspin, neither of us got any sleep last night (he has asd and although he knows us very well and is comfortable here, push him far enough and things go very wrong).

Well done minicrown, amazing milestone, big celebrations on the top deck of the bus today.

Dh's back is still fucked so we are muddling through, just the two of us with lots of interference from Lola. It's almost as if he's been given a little taste of what I've got to contend with because he can't bend at all and is in constant pain.

Today ds3 is moving all his worldly possessions to Bristol, about three hours away from us. His dp has landed her dream job and they have found a lovely house to rent, he is staying here until he finds a job, he has to give up their current house at the end of January and will come and stay with us until he finds a job in Bristol too. I can't wait to have him home, even if it's only for a short time.

I've decided to take my in dwelling catheter out today and get back into the routine of using intermittent catheters during the day which will mean lots of transfers in and out of bed every day, which is going to be challenging to say the least. But I'm seeing this as an essential step in my rehabilitation and I certainly won't miss carrying a bag of wee around with me.

Please send lots of healing vibes to Fabulous as she's not very well, she needs all of loveliness you've shown me over the last few weeks.

happy New year you amazing wonderful people inside my phone. I sincerely wish you all love and happiness in 2019.

Healing vibes are in the process of being sent to Fab, I hope she feels better soon.

Anyone fancy joining the NYE party thread that I started? It would be great to have some familiar faces in the crowd!

@Seafour.

I got slightly excited at the fact I've found another intermittent catheter user!

Fingers crossed @Thefabulouspa gets well soon!

Yay for celebration of mini crowns achievement (btw are we allowed to share photos with faces?)

Hopefully ur Dhs back gets better soon!

High five to baby Crown!

Hope lovely Fabulous feels better soon ❤️

Sea the switch to intermittent sounds like a good step forward.

Oh, shall we push the bus over to the party? It is great fun. So happy to get together before the year is gone.

Small steps climb the highest mountain 😁

Happy New Year @seafour and fellow buslings. Wishing you all the best health, happiness and prosperity for the coming year.

Also wishing you better @thefabulouspa

Healing vibes to your dh and to fab.

Joining the party too - I may party and knit at the same time, right?

Crownandheelshigh why do I feel stupidly excited to find someone else who uses catheters, we should have a badge or wristband shouldn't we.

Fabulous is in a bad way, she's going to be off work for some time, I feel like one of my limbs is missing and I'm very worried about her.

In the end the district nurse persuaded me to leave the in dwelling catheter in until Wednesday when our live in help starts as dh is in no fit state to help me transfer on and off the bed multiple times a day. She also tried to to persuade dh to go to the gp about his back but he's being a bloke and saying "I'll be fine tomorrow" but I don't think he will be. We've had cheesy chips for dinner.

Awww, poor Fab, it sounds as though she's quite unwell

Happy New Year to all the buslings!

@Seafour yes defo to wrist bands!
People find it weird that I made the choice to have to use them (risks after my Botox in bladder) rather then stopping on tablets that made me physically unwell.
My life's improved immensely!

I so hope u can convince dh to go to the drs!

Xxx