Please, SEND GOOD JUJU FOR OUR DEAR MEMBER LINDA WHIT!!!

[linguafood (Natascha)]

Thanks for checking in, Linda. So happy to hear you’re in good hands, and already improving

[TheLibrarian28]

Sending healing thoughts your way. We need you and so do the boyz!

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)]

@LindaWhit

Best meal so far.

That’s my gal.

[Presunto (--> Back in Athens - Goat's/Sheep's Yoghurt every day ... [Fleeced Taxpayer :@)) :@)) ])]

Linda!!! So good to see your posts after waking up this morning to LF’s thread!

Wishing you a speedy recovery and soon to be reunited with the boys!

[Mr_Happy]

Hope you recover quickly @LindaWhit !

[digga]

@LindaWhit

@Harters

So good to hear from you and that you’re picking up. But I have a question…

WHAT’S FOR DINNER?

Well, Tuesday I went with breakfast for dinner: scrambled eggs & Swiss omelet (of sorts) and toast. Wasn’t allowed any bacon. Last night was a sad (but at least filling!) grilled chicken and Swiss sandwich, applesauce, ginger ale, and a brownie.

Went with French Toast and coffee for breakfast. Best meal so far.

I can envision a whole new thread… Hospital food! I gave birth to Spring Onion (c-section) in the slammer at Newton-Wellesley Hospital (for non-Boston Onions, those are fancy suburbs) and I can attest that they had excellent food. B enjoyed their salmon for 4 nights straight!

ETA: My dad has been hospitalized (in Providence RI, Greenwich CT) several times over the last decade. And no matter what is going on, the nursing staff always laughs that his appetite is never affected. He loves hospital food!

[Meekah]

@LindaWhit

I’ve been under really good care in the Cardiac ICU and hope to be moved to a “regular” room today. Nurses are the heart and soul of a hospital, and mine have all been wonderful, kind, and helpful.

I had exactly the same experience! I couldn’t have been treated better by the entire cardiac team.

[carolina1]

Hi Linda- Was saddened to learn you had a heart attack. Wishing you happy, healthy days ahead. You’re such a valued HO member, a real treasure. Thanks for keeping us up to date.
Carolina1

[Meekah]

Food was the only dismal part of my stay, and I wasn’t being picky. It’s just that everything tasted so salty. And this was a cardiac unit restricted diet. So I finally asked, because I was convinced they were using some sort of weird salt substitute. Mais non! the restricted sodium diet was … 3000 milligrams of sodium per day! The nurse explained that most of the patients on the unit were routinely consuming twice that amount, so for them it was a restriction.

I asked for more jello… . Oh, and the flatbread pizza I could tolerate. Friends who visited at mealtime could have what I was having - for a $5 surcharge. I was nothing if not a gracious hostess. . They actually ate it, too.

This was the only photo I took of the food.

Friends sent catered London broil, salad, veggies and roast salmon to me when I was discharged. I broke into tears.

[ElsieDee (Laura)]

@digga

Hospital food!

There’s this thread:

Impressive Japanese hospital food!

These food look fancier than those from many of the bento-type Japanese restaurants around here, and certainly better than those from probably all the hospitals here! The comments are hilarious too. 'I wanna give birth in Japan. And I am a 60 year old man…

[Lectroid]

So glad to hear you’re on the mend.

[small_h]

During my last hospital stay (January 2024), I was THRILLED to learn that I could order all my food via touch screen - the same one that controls the tv, kind of like on a plane. It was like choosing all the courses for a prix fixe: what kind of bread? how do you want your eggs? fruit cup? tomato juice? cereal or yogurt? or BOTH!!!

I eat a lot in the hospital, 'cause I’m so bored.

[LindaWhit]

@small_h

During my last hospital stay (January 2024), I was THRILLED to learn that I could order all my food via touch screen - the same one that controls the tv, kind of like on a plane

I WISH I could do that. Food at this hospital is mediocre, although the French Toast this morning was pretty good.

[jammy]

Too much salt would have been preferable to the sugar bombs I was served at my hospital stay. The only thing I got that I asked for was the coffee. It was so sweet I couldn’t eat any of it. I contacted the hospital about how inappropriate this was for someone recovering from surgery. Crickets, of course, was the only response.

(CIB stands for Carnation instant breakfast. A syrupy concoction that’s supposed to contain all that you need for a healthy breakfast. Diabetes, anyone?)

[ewsflash (Eileen S)]

Sending prayers, good juju, healing thoughts, and a bucket of good luck to Linda- thanks for letting us know.

[Sunshine842]

So sorry to hear you’ve been poorly @LindaWhit…but even more happy to hear youre on the mend!

[MaxEntropy]

Glad you are on the mend! Though I’m an agnostic, I think nurses are God’s (if there is one) emissaries on earth. If there’s not, well, nurses are just great.

[Miss_belle]

LindaWhit ~ I don’t know about anyone else here, but when I first read the original post yesterday, I teared up girl. Funny how you can care so much about people you’ve never met and never will meet. Good to hear you’re on the mend. Now, in addition to the WHAT’s FOR DINNER question. Will you have to cut back on the PSTOB&SC or?

[LindaWhit]

@Miss_belle

Now, in addition to the WHAT’s FOR DINNER question. Will you have to cut back on the PSTOB&SC or?

That is a VERY good question! Perhaps I can’t do the PST part, but can still have B&SC on occasion.

[TokushimaCook]

As verbose as I tend to be, I’m at a loss for words as to what to say to you, Linda❣️But I’m ecstatic that you are at least out of the woods for the time being and hopefully permanently❣️