Mom's having chest pains

I'm making salad?

Published on November 12, 2004 By Danny Bassette In Home & Family

        This morning my mom comes into my room and says she's having chest pains so she's going to the doctors, can i make this recipe while she's gone. Hands me a card, a few quick comments on the recipe, and runs out the door. Well my mom has been known to panic pointlessly, and worrying on my part won't help any, so off to make the salad I go.
        First we gather all the ingredients together, wouldn't want to get half way through and find out I'm missing somethig important. Hmm, no red onions, garlic clove, or gingerroot. Oh well, they can't be that important, now can they? Everything else is there, so time to mix, but first I need space to mix.
        Time to clear the kitchen counter. Can't speak for most people, but in our house the kitchen counter is used more for storage then anything else. Breakfast dishes (and uneaten foodstuff), yesterdays mail, other piles of papers, who knows what else. But I need space to make a mess, so all the other mess gets moved around for my mess (must prioritize messes after all

).
        Now this recipe is Mandarin Pasta Salad, by the Pampered Chef people, so it has references to their special cooking tools, with trademarks and copyrights all over the place. Not a recipe I like, but then again I don't have to eat it, so all good.
        Manage to get the dressing part done when the phone rings, it's mom at the doctors. She got there ok (which is good, although with the doctor in town that comes as no surprise), but now she's off to the hospital. Before hanging up she does tell me where to find the garlic and onions, which helps.
        So I'm making the salad, slicing, dicing, missing my fingers (most of the time at least). Onions are fun, they always bring back memories of working at the pizza shop and crying while cutting onions each morning. Course, I only need half a cup for the salad, so that's no trouble. Get the salad all together, put plastic wrap on it and into the fridge it goes.
        Mom shows up with a friend and she says they have to wait for the hospital to call and tell them where to go. She's acting as usual, no outward signs of pain, which is good. She even thinks she might go to the luncheon the salad is for. She gives me a summary of what happened at the doctors.
        The local doctor wants her to go to the hospital for an EKG, since their machine is broken. She's been having chest pain for a few days now (yet first I've heard of it, our family isn't much for communicating with each other).
        And now they are getting all dressed up to go out to lunch, at least mom will get to enjoy the salad. Hope she makes it to her doctors appointment too...

Comments

shadesofgrey

on Nov 12, 2004

Hope your mom's ok...keep us posted.

How'd the food turn out?

Danny Bassette

on Nov 12, 2004

Good news all around. Mom got back from her trip to the hospital, the doctor said it wasn't a heart attack or anything like that, it was most likely high blood pressure and/or stress. More testing to find out which, if either.
And I'm told the salad was delicious.

Sally jacobs

on Nov 12, 2004

Glad to hear your Moms okay. Ahh we have our very own naked chef

Danny Bassette

on Nov 12, 2004

naked? i'll have you know i was fully clothed the entire time i was cooking.

Sally jacobs

on Nov 12, 2004

Is a salad classed as cooking? You never heard of Jamie Oliver...the naked chef!

Danny Bassette

on Nov 12, 2004

nope, never heard of him. and this salad needed the oven, although a toaster would have worked as well just taken longer, needed to cook the almond slivers. *shrug* i took foodstuff, did stuff too it, put it all together, and fed it to someone else, call it what you will.

Sally jacobs

on Nov 12, 2004

Hehe ok! You cooked *claps*. Jamie Oliver is fab. He's a famous cook over here!

shadesofgrey

on Nov 12, 2004

Is a salad classed as cooking? You never heard of Jamie Oliver...the naked chef!

Jamie Oliver isn't nearly as popular over here--though he is delicious--I mean his recipes are tasty!

Sally jacobs

on Nov 12, 2004

though he is delicious--I mean his recipes are tasty!

...he isn't bad either

Ravenblack

on Nov 12, 2004

Glad your mom's alright.

High blood pressure - gotta take care now, people get older they tend to get that.

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