What have you had for dinner

[securespark]

Incredably, the little old lady completely cleared her plate.

Sounds quite a sad story.

It may be that she hasn't been able to afford to eat well and perhaps someone paid for her and she took the opportunity to fill up?

 

[Mottie]

Pork roast. Crackling was superb but you never quite know of it’s the crackling cracking or your teeth!

 

[securespark]

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Sounds quite a sad story.

It may be that she hasn't been able to afford to eat well and perhaps someone paid for her and she took the opportunity to fill up?

Even so, she must have had a tremendous appetite..

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

A Chinese take-away, our second of 2024, as a change from our usual Saturday treat of fish & chips. I had chicken in oranges sauce, Avril a special chow mein, sharing an egg fried rice.

 

[securespark]

I had cheese and onion pie and chips from a chippy over the road from the hospital.

Now drifting in and out of sleep with the general hubbub of the ward and noisy patients yelling. There's a guy yelling for a nurse every 2 minutes next to me, complaining his wallet has been stolen. Nurse comes and tells him it's in the safe.

Rinse and repeat....

I feel very sorry for him on one hand, but I could do with some unbroken kip!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I had cheese and onion pie and chips from a chippy over the road from the hospital.

Longest in, three nights, I couldn't wait to get out for some decent food.

 

[securespark]

Tonight, there wasn't a sandwich in sight at the hospital: the choice was a roast pork dinner or a poached salmon.

So, rather ironically, I had a spicy Mexican bean wrap Mrs S got me earlier.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Last night in Prague before return to Blighty tomorrow. Will be few beers followed by a Greek. Probably chicken souvlaki with some rice and bread. Having a sweet tooth - will have to be baklava for desert. Probably the healthiest food I've had for past week. Probably squeeze in an Italian before heading for airport tomorrow eve. Probably cost about the same as a small tube of Pringles on Easyjet.

 

[Mottie]

Chicken in a peri peri marinade, jacket spuds and some steamed broccoli. Chicken and spuds in the oven as I type.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Just a ready-made beef pie, mash, cabbage, peas, and onion gravy. I even found some actual pieces of beef, in the pie!

 

[Mottie]

I even found some actual pieces of beef, in the pie!

Always a bonus…..

 

[securespark]

Interesting thing in the past few days.

First of all the food.

The food at SHH is not half bad. The mash is a bit cold and lumpy, but most other dishes are decent.

I've been obviously sticking to the veggie dishes, so can't speak for the meaty ones but the soups are perfectly palatable and the quiche is good too. The veggie lasagne and lentil bake are very tasty.

But onto another thing I have never seen before.

I have not been out of bed, save for literally a couple of minutes on my non broken foot.

The hospital staff want to weigh me but can't.

Here's the funny thing. Warrington hospital had me down as 165 kg. IDK how they weighed me.

SHH reckon I had lost 4kg the other day. IDK how they weighed me.

Then this morning I half woke up to a nurse measuring my right arm. Bit odd, I thought...

I'm gonna ask later what the measurements are for. I suspect they are assessing my weight because they can't weigh me using traditional scales, but they must have a sling somewhere? Like the thing you would weigh a baby in but bigger...

I don't understand why it has not been openly explained to me what they are doing? And why I am being measured only at night?

 

[Stivino]

Maybe the bed has piezoelectric sensors?

 

[Brigadier]

Interesting thing in the past few days.

First of all the food.

The food at SHH is not half bad. The mash is a bit cold and lumpy, but most other dishes are decent.

I've been obviously sticking to the veggie dishes, so can't speak for the meaty ones but the soups are perfectly palatable and the quiche is good too. The veggie lasagne and lentil bake are very tasty.

But onto another thing I have never seen before.

I have not been out of bed, save for literally a couple of minutes on my non broken foot.

The hospital staff want to weigh me but can't.

Here's the funny thing. Warrington hospital had me down as 165 kg. IDK how they weighed me.

SHH reckon I had lost 4kg the other day. IDK how they weighed me.

Then this morning I half woke up to a nurse measuring my right arm. Bit odd, I thought...

I'm gonna ask later what the measurements are for. I suspect they are assessing my weight because they can't weigh me using traditional scales, but they must have a sling somewhere? Like the thing you would weigh a baby in but bigger...

I don't understand why it has not been openly explained to me what they are doing? And why I am being measured only at night?

FYI, in case you are interested......


I saw a bloke in the boozer last night.

I commented that he'd lost a lot of weight (I also said that I hoped it was not through bad news).

He told me that he had been paying privately for an injection called Manjaro, as he hadn't quite hit the threshold for being prescribed it on the NHS (BMI of +35, and one associated medical condition).




Might be worth asking about.