the eye doctor's office called me back

The eye doctor's office called me back this afternoon. I now have an appointment next Tuesday with my usual doctor. This is at a reasonable 11 a.m., rather than the 9:15 they gave me with Dr. Umlas last month.

The receptionist told me that Dr. Lazzara will examine me and, if he agrees with what the covering doctor said, he will go ahead and ( possible eye treatment, no details )

Dr. Umlas told me that if this is why I have intermittently blurry vision, it's an easy-to-remedy thing that ( Read more... )

I have to go to their Lexington office for this, because he can't do the procedure in their Arlington office, and if Dr. Umlas was right about what needs doing, Dr. Lazzara will do it during the same appointment.

cooking: matzo ball soup

I made us matzo ball soup for supper, because we had the ingredients and adrian_turtle wasn't feeling well.

I've been working on making the soup in pieces and then assembling them, rather than making a pot of chicken soup as one process and then adding the matzo balls. It still needs work, but this is good enough to go on with. What's below might be useful/sufficient instructions for someone else to work with, but it's also for my reference.

The pieces, this time, were cooked chicken (from yesterday's supermarket rotisserie chicken); raw carrots; chicken broth (chicken "Better than Bouillon" from a jar, plus boiling water); and matzo.balls. For the matzo balls, I used the recipe on the Manischewitz package, plus some fresh dill, because cattitude and Adrian bought a bunch at the farmers market yesterday, to use in making pickles.

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