Month: November 2018

Yummy Home-cooked Dishes

After more than a week of having dizzy spells from Vertigo, the mil felt much better  two days ago.  So glad that she’s feeling better as we get to have proper home-cooked dinners again 😬

Not that I am totally not made for the kitchen, but chopping garlic, onions and raw meat just ain’t my thing. And all the washing and chopping. The odor of raw garlic, onion, butter and raw meat that lingers on my hands after 10 rounds of washing just turns me off. Not to mention smelling like onions after cooking! If we have a live-in maid like we used to for over 10 years, I really don’t mind baking and cooking as I do not have to clean and wash up after the aftermath. Speaking of which, I really do miss having a live-in maid. I am spoilt like that.

Back at my parents’ in Ipoh, I don’t have to do any cooking. My papa will do all the cooking and mum will bake. My papa even washes the dishes. He wouldn’t let my mum wash the dishes either.  Bless his heart. I just help with mopping the floor after they cook.

These are the dishes for our dinner yesterday:

Crispy pan-fried fish eggs and steamed pork with ‘mui choy’. All my favorite dishes!

Much as I love fried fish eggs, I have to resist myself from popping them into my mouth as they are super high in cholesterol! Just to recap, I have genetic high cholesterol though I eat pretty healthily with portions small enough for a toddler.

The fish eggs were scraps from a gigantic mackeral fish. We were at the fishmonger’s van to buy fish yesterday and an old lady didn’t want the fish eggs after she paid for the fish. She said we could have the fish eggs as she dared not eat them for health reasons. I guess she has high cholesterol too.

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Help Your Loved One Live With More Independence

Independent living is one thing that most people hate to lose as they age. Staying in the home can be made safer by hiring in qualified assistance to help ensure your loved one stays safe and well-cared for each day.

Help Maintain Independent Living

Incorporating quality elder care assistance to your aging loved one is a better way to allow them to maintain more independence in life by allowing them to safely stay at home, rather than placing them in full-time nursing facilities. Allow them the ability to stay in an environment they are comfortable and familiar with.

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Safeguard Your Loved One’s Health

Bringing in quality home health care assistance will help safeguard the health of those you love by being able to monitor chronic conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and more. You can detect problems sooner and seek further medical assistance when needed. It improves their chances of staying healthy longer.

Provide the Consistent Care Your Loved One Needs

You can bring in qualified elder care assistance for times you are not able to be present with your loved one. It’s critical for conditions like Alzheimer’s that someone is able to supervise both day and night. You will eliminate the possibilities of wandering and the dangers of becoming lost.

Ensure Safer Mobility and Daily Care

Reducing the chances your loved one can take a tumble and get injured while trying to motivate around the home can be minimized with elder care assistance. You can get them the daily assistance needed for grooming and basic care. You will feel better about being called away for work or appointments.

Unfortunately, aging is one part of life that cannot be avoided or stopped. It can be dangerous to leave your aging loved one without supervision or assistance if they prefer to stay at home. Health care and basic daily care assistance can help ensure it is a safe environment.

 

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Two Teeth Extracted

After a wait of five months for all her major exams to be over, Alycia finally had the first two (of four!) of her teeth extracted  yesterday. For aesthetics / braces purpose. It was a walk in the park for her.  Praise the Lord!! But her mum was a nervous wreck.  I did not even had the guts to watch the whole process of the dentist yanking off the 2 good teeth. I walked out and chilled on my smartphone after the dentist administered the numbing spray on her gums 🤦‍♀️

Perhaps it was the 3 weeks nightmarish stay in the hospital with Cass 9.5 years ago when she was 13 months old that created the phobia in me of watching my own child being handled by a doctor. I can’t bear to watch them being in pain.  I’ll never forget that freezing rainy night in mid May 2009 when Cass was rushed to the Procedures Room at Gleneagles Medical Centre, Penang for a nasal tube to be inserted from her nostrils right into her throat without any sedative — twice not once.  The nurse screwed up the first time and had to call the surgeon back to the hospital to perform a second insertion.  The shock, pain and trauma on Cass’ face were just too much to bear for me. She was shivering in pain and fear;  immediately she ran a temperature and I had to climb onto the baby cot, contort my body  to be next to her to soothe her the entire night.

Anyway, back to my brave Miss Cool Cucumber.

The mil cooked a big pot of dried scallop + sweet potato porridge so that Alycia could swallow down her dinner but this stubborn girl who loathes porridge sulked at the sight of the porridge when she came home from school 🤢

But I enjoyed the porridge with ‘Tau Kok Lup’. I mixed a teaspoon of Marmite into my porridge and savored it with the ‘Tau Kok Lup’.  I could down bowls of plain porridge with just Marmite or Bovril when I was a little girl. It’s  a comfort food that’s cheap yet yummo.

It was totally unexpected that Alycia felt little to no pain when the dentist gave her the LA jab before the two teeth were extracted. Even after the LA wore off, she felt no pain other than the annoying numbness on her lips and mouth.

When everything was over, I asked Alycia if she was scared, she said “why should I be? My friends said no pain at all!”

Wow! I can’t believe her bravery. I would have been quivering throughout the procedure.

Alycia even wanted all 4 teeth extracted at once so that she only needed to go through the pain once like what her friends did but our trusted dentist advised against it.

The remaining two teeth will be extracted one month from yesterday. Hopefully the second extraction will be a painless experience again!

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