Rainbow Trout

Tim and I tried a new recipe last night....and it turned out pretty good! We had never tried rainbow trout before, and I had never prepared it before, so we googled some recipes and I settled on this one:

BROILED RAINBOW TROUT WITH HERB MAYONNAISE

6 tbsp. reg. or light mayonnaise 1 clove garlic, minced 1 tbsp. lemon juice Herbs to taste Dash of pepper 4 Clear Springs Brand Idaho Rainbow Trout fillets (4 oz. each) Combine mayonnaise, garlic, lemon juice, herbs and pepper in bowl; mix well. Cover flesh side of each trout fillet with 1/4 of mayonnaise mixture. Broil 4 inches from heat source for about 3 to 5 minutes or until fish flakes with a fork and topping is bubbly.

(courtesy of Cooks.com)

It turned out pretty good. I used lime juice instead of lemon because we were out of lemon, I added basil, oregano and thyme for the "herbs" and we just used good old Costco Rainbow trout fillets (which are HUGE by the way, and really reasonable - about 12$ for 4 LARGE fillets that would have easily fed 5 or 6). Tim and I tried this recipe on two of the fillets, and we're trying another recipe tomorrow....either way, it was good. Try it out and let me know what you thought and what modifications were good.

Just to give you an idea of how big the fillets were, this plate has ~10 inch diameter and the fish is folded over! That's ALOT of fish. :P (for interest, we had it with home fries and beans!)

One time lucky, two times blessed

So I've been on placement for the past three weeks at McMaster Children's Hospital in the acute care ward. It's really interesting and challenging, and I am enjoying it.

This week I sure realised God's looking after me, because there was 20 confirmed cases of rotavirus (really nasty gastro flu, basically comin' out both ends nonstop for 24-48 hours) on one of the floors I work on. I'm not on that floor very often, but even being there and touching door handles, charts etc puts you at greater risk.

Wednesday morning I got into work a little early because I wanted to be a keener and have the patient lists printed off and to have checked the referral books, just because I'm usually there just on time. I wanted to make a good impression on my preceptors. Usually I start work at about 8:30, so I showed up in enough time to have everything ready for 8:30. Well 8:30 rolled around, then 9 o'clock came and neither of my preceptors showed up. I was a little confused, and I didn't really know what to do. There was a message on our phone, but I didn't know how to check it. So I paged one of the other PTs we work with and found out how to check messages. It turns out BOTH of my preceptors had come down with rotavirus, and there I was, healthy as can be!

You might say that's just luck, but it's the second time in less than a month that I have been exposed to a nasty gastro flu and been totally fine. About 4 weeks ago Tim got REALLY sick with Norwalk that was going around at his work, and I stayed home and looked after him for two days, and was totally fine.

All I can say is that I am very grateful that I haven't gotten it so far, and I really believe it's God looking out for me, because right now I can't afford to be missing placement or school.

Just thought I'd share my fun story. Hope you all are well.

Blessings

Allergies

Yesterday I visited the allergist for the first time ever! About a year and a half ago I had a substantial allergic reaction to something, but to this day we're not sure what it was. It's possible that I may have reacted to some generic gravol I took because I was sick with the flu, but we're not sure. So I was going to visit the allergist to test for a potential allergy to gravol, and they had asked me to bring in the brand that I thought had made me react. I wasn't sure what brand it wasy, so I went out to the grocery store and brought two brands of generic gravol that I thought migh have been the culprits.

Unfortunately, in the rush of the morning and the realisation that we were running late, I left the gravols at home. So they tested me with the generic brand that they had at the hospital, which I was NOT allergic to. YAY However, they also tested me for all the standard allergens, and I discovered that I have allergies to tree pollen, grass, ragweed pollen and dust mites.

Have you ever seen a picture of dust mites? They're kinda gross looking.

Yucky!! I don't really like them, they make my skin crawl......ugh....and to think they live all over the place. SO GROSS

Icky icky icky!

What a weird thing, to all of a sudden be aware of the fact that you have allergies. I've been healthy all my life, and it's weird to think that there are things out there that can make me sick that may not make others sick. I mean, I had a suspicion that I might be allergic to some environmental stuff because the last couple summers I've had itchy/watery eyes and runny nose, but still, it's weird to have it confirmed. Oh, and know what's even weirder, it's not the dust mite themselves that people are allergic to, it's their "waste" (aka poo) ha ha. Go dust mites! Toxic poo :P

So the allergist was giving me all these suggestions of things I should do, and made it out to be a big deal and that my allergies were pretty bad. It made me laugh, because I've never really noticed them that much, and having someone say that it is a problem seems odd. He seemed to think my allergies were so bad that he gave me a steroid nose spray (so much for my Olympic dreams! LOL) I don't think I'll be using that one too often, I'll probably opt for the reactine route or even look into whether there are herbal alternatives I could try using. I'm not really into the side effects that regular steroid use can bring, even if it's just going up your nose....

I think the funniest thing I got out of this entire experience was that I was provided with a bunch of information sheets, and one of them mentioned that pets are a major source of dust, and that they should be washed every month. Hee hee.....I wonder what Ed will think of that one. :)