here i go again....

 The Bedford Street Arts and Crafts festival, Yesterday and today...
i actually should never go to these things...
even with my poor vision i see "issues":
 Butterfield 8 having trouble with their ice machine,
Volta selling crepes from a push cart (the Health Department does NOT allow push carts and seriously cooking crepes?). 
And Meridth Breads selling Quiche...again - got after them last year also....
sigh, the crafts are great tho.
I guess you can take me out of the Health Department, but not the Health Department out of me.
Waiting for the next great "Oyster festival outbreak" cause of these deviations

Okay, there's no label for this one

So my Mom is still in the hospital in VA Beach. I got a good report from my cousin and says mostly they are keeping her for a UTI and observation. Somewhere, someone realized the pain from the bone marrow sample was too much and that is the big deal. SO she will be released to a short term rehab unit until she is back to her normal. Then we find out the results of the bone marrow test some 2 weeks from now.
This really did get me upset, my own BP has been higher than it should be and I have been agitated. On top of that, I popped the lens out of my glasses and was basically blind for half the day. John, the engineer of the house (yes, really a building engineer) put the glasses together and I can see again.
There will be a new upscale Mexican restaurant/tequila bar in Port Chester in June - not in Stamford. I actually encourage first time restaurant's to go to other towns because it is a bit difficult to go through the plan review in Stamford (As Wild Buffalo Wings and Mary Anns' are finding out). I actually approve of the concept (you get it started the best as possible, read as close to CT code here, and then it takes a while for it to go down hill). This in turn retards the occurrence of food borne illnesses due to faulty equipment. It does work cause the number of super investigations have been down since that policy was instituted a while back. Of course the Pellichi's incident happened first.

New learning

I had some extra things to say yesterday, but the outage caused them not to be posted, but today is a new, different day and I may get back to that stuff. Today is a different day because i learned something, yeah, me. As i have posted, there is this beach closure meeting (US EPA's words, not mine) today at 10:30 Am in the Mayor's conference room. The State beach program and out health department will be there with the mayor and the US EPA. The meeting should be all about how we can stop our beach closures (this previously stated from the US EPA head, Ann Rodney). At first i was all excited about going and then I realized it would not be a good idea. I argued with myself, "Self says I, I am the architect of that policy, I did the research, I know most of the problems and nuances of the huge amount of data we collected." I stopped and decided not to go after that triad. Yes, all that is true, I did do the work and helped formulate and refine the policy, but all I needed to do is stop being a hypocrite and share my info and heart with my boss. Some where in all of this the conflict was that i was not doing a good job sharing everything I knew with others. You see any time I pontificate about how data should be shared and not held so tight, that others can't see it. Well, cause of my self importance, I was not doing that and decided I need to change that attitude, pronto. My boss will be there, who is the other third (we have a fourth person, who is equally as important, but she is the office support person and would not analyze things coming into the lab) of an incredibly knowledgeable and powerful team that makes up the laboratory and I trust that.

On other news, yesterday I saw the gerontologist, who had done an endoscopy 2 weeks previous. The swallowing problems appear to all be related to acid reflux, which is curable with the proper medicine. This was an incredible piece of good news and another piece of the puzzle that has been solved. Onward to Monday and the next 2 hour eye exam!

Fun stuff

I have now been out of service for 6 months and the other day I get an email that I am being published again! This time it is on the beach closure policy we have in Stamford and I had forgotten it was out there. I think I submitted my last revision over a year ago, so the email confirmation was a surprise. Of course, I post all my bits of environmental wisdom, healthful hints and complaints on my other Blog site Joey K on the Environment. I got to put all my qualifications up and actually surprised myself (I think I still have this image of myself as just getting out of college or something). Anyway, it is out in April and I am pleased.

The Slow Road

Yes, it is/has been a slow road.
Reality, I am still seeing double and do not have a great deal of strength.
The double vision has been improving. I walk better with double vision than with a patch. I shopped last night at commerce st Shop-rite...which is more of a feat than the Saturday morning feat because it was at the end of the day. It was tough. I am walking around my block, tho not very big. They are ending my in-house therapy tomorrow, they can't do any more for me. I will have to go to a facility for proper he[p, they say I have improved beyond what they are able to do for me.

Now for a bit of Heath Department Trivia. I listen to the Health Department Hot line messages and 2 were updated from july... the beach and shellfish hotline..the others tick, flu and west nile were not updated, so after some struggle I updated them the best I could. whooops..I am not suppose to be working!
Hopefully, I will get to this again with more trivia.