Day 7 - A Little Nausea Does Solve The Whole Processed Foods Problem

OK, for the record, I am a total and complete wimp when it comes to blood, injuries, hospitals, doctors--anything in the "something isn't working correctly" category. I once had to flee a large luncheon (climbing over several older men in the process) because the speaker was discussing eye diseases and even brought slides to show. I stop people from describing their surgeries in detail because I will either throw up or pass out, and both are a real conversation stopper.

So, taking care of a cat who looks like this:
and trying to help him break down the scar tissue enough to be able to move his ankle out of this positionis keeping me pretty thoroughly nauseous--the upside of which is that I don't care what we fix for meals as I might not be able to get them down anyway. Not that we've been eating only questionable food so far--we've actually had steak twice and I've fixed pollo en feo mole verde (which translates loosely as "chicken in ugly green sauce"), but a few meals have been more of a graze than a meal--nuts, cabbage, carrot sticks, and cheese or homemade bread. Remarkably good for us and everything, but not likely to show up in Food and Wine magazine anytime in the near future.

Tomorrow Theo will spend the day in physical therapy, which is a bit of a relief. Today he has rotated between sleeping, licking his leg, doing our little hallway walks as assigned (which probably isn't helping anything as he hops on 3 legs the entire time, but they said to do it so we're doing it) and crying/growling/hissing when he moves his leg too much. As they didn't send home sedatives for either of us, I'm all for having someone else look after him for a day. I think he whines more out of frustration than actual pain, but it's really dreadful either way--especially as I can't make it better.

After today, it was time to use up one of my "cheats:"

Butterscotch mudslide

4 oz Kahlua
4 oz Irish cream
4 oz butterscotch liqueur
Ice (enough to make drink slightly thick)

1. Blend all together. Enjoy.

Theo could have probably used one as well, but he's been on a lot of drugs lately and it seems best not to encourage the habit.