On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Made it successfully through my surgery and have recovered enough to be on > my own again. I'm not experiencing any real pain post-op, and just a low > level irritation from the catheter. That's supposed to come out about a week > from now, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it until then. > > The people at the VA Hospital in Durham, NC were wonderful. The only > complaint I have is with the food and I don't blame the Durham VAMC for > that. > > They closed down the hospital kitchen a couple of years back and the food is > out-sourced to some company up in Virginia. Cooked twice a week, trucked in > & held in storage until heated to serve to the patients. It was the most > god-awful tasting and smelling crap I have ever encountered, including > airline food. > > Although, I think it's the same catering company. > > Anyway, the taste and smell was so bad I'd start vomiting every time I tried > to eat. I finally managed to choke down a few tiny bites and figured out to > hang on to the juice pack & crackers. > > I'd make it a part of the contract for this sort of outsourced catering that > the corporate executives and board board of directors of the company doing > the catering be required to eat their every meal from the menus they provide > to the VA. > > Bet the quality would improve drastically. PDQ! > > > Anyway, I'm up and around and more or less mobile and on the way back to > normal. Gonna close this right now, gotta go chase some kids off my lawn. > ;-D
Glad to hear you survived the weight-loss programme! ;-) You must be feeling better if you're chasing kids off the lawn. Great to hear things are moving in the right direction - I know they'll continue to move that way. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
