ACHES AND PAINS

Well I went back to the Dr Wed to see about my knee pain and the blood tests. Apparently my blood work was excellent, every thing normal to excellent. No high cholesterol, no high blood sugar, no kidney malfunctions, no anemia, no thyroid problems. no liver problems. But , much to my surprise and astonishment I had High Blood pressure. That one came as a surprise, seeing as three months ago it was a normal 120/80. Go in for a sore knee come out with high blood pressure! Those two body parts aren't even in the same ballpark! So I now know I have osteoarthritis and high blood pressure to go with depression and IBS. The only one that is a dangerous condition is the blood pressure thing, If I cannot get it under control I could be at risk for heart attack and stroke!! I have already started a Rx for the blood pressure problem, and have lose 10 pounds on the first week of treatment. (It is a diuretic) The Dr. said I only need to loose 5#, but the will be almost impossible because I have weighted the same for years, give or take a few pounds. I gained 10# in the last month to six weeks, and that is when my knees flared up. I guess that was all water weight. I generally neither gain nor loose weight. I need to see him in about 6 weeks. Of course Mom had all kinds of vitamin advice for me. And whatever I do I should never ever touch SUGAR the evil and terrible cause of all sorts of terrible things. BS. I am relieved that I can eat pretty much as I have except be careful with salt, Which I crave. I have been going nuts at work with stress and frustration. The Morris Center, where I now work, will have not students to feed as of Aug 29. The school is closing DT, but no one is sure what the Morris center is going to be doing. The cannon center is being rebuilt, but the old one is still functioning so who knows what will happen. Also the MTC is part of our responsibility also. Plus Cougereat and catering and other dinning services. I could go anywhere. They promise that there will be jobs for everyone. But where will that be? There is one person there that drives me nuts. the notorious FF Lady. She gets excited and nervous about things and tries to do all of it instead of thinking before she starts. The last to weekends I have worked (F or Sat) . Both weeks I have had to stay and fix her mistakes in order to make sure that the orders go out correctly. A week ago Sat( my sixth day in a row working) I had to come in at 6:00 A. M. (This in and of its self is a pain because I usually come in at 11:00) to help get the take-out out. She had started every ting and had breakfast done. Unfortunately, she had not used the correct meats for some of the items. She left at 9:00 A.M. and there was still the breakfast mess to clean up and a few take out orders to finish up. At 10 I was ready to leave, and the receiver that was taking the food to take-out catering asked me if the BBQ Chicken should weight more than the BBQ Ribs. I looked at what the order was and there was supposed to be 50 servings of chicken and 35 servings of pork. That meant that there should have been 13# of chicken, and 9# of ribs. I took them and weighted them and there were 23#! of pork and 10# of chicken. I guess they were wrong. One was 3# short and one was12# too many. Well it was easy to fix the ribs. I just took out 13# of meat and put it in the locker to be used later. However I needed to cook 3# more of the chicken and sauce it before it could go. So out comes a pot , in goes more chicken, cook it, add sauce, put in a new takeout pan. and send it on its way. Then clean the pot again, and the counters. Then go home. Total disgust! This Fri I came in at 8:00. Again she had breakfast done and lunch also, or so she said. She also was working on takeout. Both Fri. and Sat. and was there ever a mess! I saw on look of the kitchen,with eggs from one end of the kitchen to the other, went an asked the manager if I could go home for a couple of hours because I was having intestinal problems, (the IBS) and could I go home for a few hours. I promised I would come back at 11:00 which I did. Things hadn't improved much except that the eggs were cleaned up and lunch was now being served. Many of the orders for Sat were to be sent out cold.(Yum cold refried beans) Well they were so mixed up I couldn't make heads or tails of it. It took me half of the day to figure out where we were. In the middle of it all the hostess came in and asked me where the food was for lunch, they were opening both lines for some groups that were coming in and they didn't have food to open it. How should I know, I didn't have a thing to do with it. She made it and it was done at 8:00 or so she said, unfortunately she made only enough for 100 people and we were supposed to have 250 people, which indeed we did have. She never looked at the updated count list. I am glad that the chef had come in for a meeting that day. It was his July 4Th holiday and he was off. He figured out what to make and made it thank goodness. FF was somewhere, but not watching the line. Right after lunch she went home, leaving me to clean up lunch, figure out the takeout and get it out. It took both me and the chef awhile to figure out what was being cooked, what day it was for and where it was. He then went home, and I got to finish up the mess. This time when takeout came to get the items, they were short one pan of cheese sauce. I had to make 2 more gallons of cheese sauce to go with the chicken cordon bleu. More dirty pans, rushing at the last min. and re cleaning the pots and cabinets. I got out of the kitchen at 5:00. ARGGH! FF wasn't working sat and neither was . I hope I got every thing straightened out of the Sat takeout so that the cooks were able to get there work done in a smooth and timely manner. And I wonder where I got high blood pressure from.!