Really, more snow!?

Are you all in the Northeast ready for m ore snow??

Where are we going to put it all???

And it continues...

Apparently people read this blog because they have been asking me how my bum is doing.  Hehehe.  Well, me and my bum were at the doctors on Friday and we are now on three antibiotics for what seems to be an infected abscess inside my right butt cheek.  People often get those in their mouths, you know? And then have to get them drained because they are so painful! Well I have one the size of a plum deep in my butt cheek! Like seriously....this could probably be happening to someone else instead, haha.  We are going to try the antibiotics for a week and go from there - if it doesn't get better they are going to have to perform surgery and drain it.  This will not be pleasant to have an open soar that has to heal on my bum, so cross your fingers for the antibiotics!

PS you can't see it! It's way way under the skin! 

My Butt

So it looks like I might have some kind of infection (like staph) in my butt cheek.  HOT, RIGHT? Started antibiotics yesterday...hopefully it fixes this painful mass....

A Giant Pain in my Butt!

So for about a week now I've had a really bad pain in my right butt cheek.  It started out as a small pain and now it's a giant pain.  I've been icing and heating and doing everything one can think to do and eating Tylenol like candy and to no avail it is getting no better.  I thought at first it was something with my muscle.  My doctor thought it was something else.  But after a week, no changes.  And I might add a have a really big like mass where it hurts, like if you press on my butt cheek it's soar and hard.  So now I think maybe I have an abscess, but there is no sign of bruising or anything on my skin.  I'm not really sure, but it has not been a pleasant week! Doing anything really aggravates it, especially walking....Any ideas out there??

The Gallows

So I guess I must be living under a rock because I only heard of The Gallows in the South End like a little while ago and usually I am really up on new south end openings.  They are in the spot that Sage used to be in.  Well, Laura and I went last week and we were really excited about their menu.  They have a nice little space, and we love the valet parking.  We are early birds so we were some of the first diners to arrive.  I got a Tar & Feather drink which was really good, I didn't drink most of it because I had some heartburn from taking lots of Tylenol, but it was really refreshing! I fear my server thought I didn't like it, but I swear I did.  We were a little upset that french onion soup was no longer on their menu.  You know if you read this blog we are french onion soup groupies! But they had a lot of things that sounded interesting to us! We started with the Scotch Egg and poutine (hand cut fries with gravy and cheese curd)

Oh my God the fries were awesome.  The gravy was really really good.  I couldn't stop eating them seriously! They have different kinds but we just had the simple ones.  And I've never had a Scotch Egg before (a soft boiled egg wrapped in house made pork sausage and rolled in bread crumbs and fried)  The consistency of the yoke was perfect.  And the combination of the egg and the crunchy layer was really great.

I had two appetizers, roman gnocchi and little neck clams, instead of an entree and Laura had the Hudson Valley duck with pineapple chutney, sticky black rice, and brussel sprouts..

   

The duck seemed a little overcooked to me (I like it pinker) but other than that it looked good.  Laura said it was "good" I think.  The black sticky rice intrigued me.  My clams were done in blood orange, pink navels and fennel which sounded like a great combination to me.  And it was! I loved it, it all worked together really well, I could have drank the leftover "sauce."  (Sorry for the bad quality photo here!) My other appetizer was interesting.  I thought it was going to be gnocchi but it was not.  The beef bolognese on it was really good though!

We don't usually have room for dessert but they had a dessert that we couldn't say no to! It was a layer of bananas, peanut butter, chocolate and torched fluff and it was amazing! The taste of torched fluff is so good, I might even do this at home!

We were really happy with our experience here and we will come back again for the fries for sure and maybe some more torched fluff!

Lucky Number 8

I'm number 8 on the transplant list.... But there are two people ahead of me my size and my blood type so that means I will not get a call until they get lungs - unless of course I have a decline and am moved ahead of them.

BIG BIG NEWS!

So, I have some really big news to share with you all! I am officially on the transplant list as of yesterday! My quality of life is getting to the point that I think it was the perfect time.  So, this means at any point now I could get the call for new lungs! It most likely won't be for a while (average wait 6 months but I hope they come sometime in April or early May) but you never know, I know people that got the call a week after going on the list! It really just all depends on when they find lungs that match for you.  And with my size, if they found tiny lungs they could call me tomorrow!

The next step in the journey continues...