Healthy Chicken, Easy!

You might like this quick and easy, healthy chicken recipe. I cooked for the family the other day, and the chicken was delicious. What a nice surprise to have an easy meal like this taste so good!

Chicken, Mushrooms, Spinach

Three large chicken breasts boneless
•    Place in frying pan on med high
•    Add 1/3 to ½ cup Olive Oil
•    Add ½ tsp ground pepper
•    Add 2 tablespoons dried parsley
•    Add 1 tablespoon dried onions
•    Add 8 oz sliced mushrooms over the top of chicken breasts

Cook ten minutes then flip chicken breasts ( Do not cover!)
•    Cook another ten minutes but keep checking so they don’t burn
•    Cut chicken breasts into smaller pieces with a spatula (cutting here keeps the inside moist!)
•    Cook another ten minutes stirring frequently.

Turn off heat.
•    Place two cups of fresh spinach leaves over the top of the chicken and mushrooms.
•    When the leaves begin to wilt stir spinach into chicken and mushrooms.

Serve immediately.

My Burned Out Heart

Matt, the cath lab (Vanderbilt Med Center) prep nurse took exactly 2 minutes and 32 seconds to shave everything from my groin up-with an electric razor. I’m as smooth as a baby’s butt. They needed hairless room to put all the electrodes and defibrillator paddles, not to mention the possiblility, remote, of having to go in through my sternum.

I woke up once during the procedure to an awful pain in my chest. That was a good thing, they said. The pain was proof that they had cauterized the right spot, about a centimenter long, in the left atrium. I vaguely remember asking if Matt was now inside my heart doing his razor thing.

Three small spaghetti sized holes in my right groin, with a little bruising is all that remains of the procedure on the surface. I won’t show pictures. I’m not leaking blood or have more than a couple square inches of bruising.

I was groggy from the sedatives, sleeping most of the afternoon, but waking up for a few hours for a delicious dinner from my sister, and a quick game of “Up and Down the River” with her daughter, Sarah, son-in-law, Dave, Nathan and Rhonda. I haven’t had any symptoms of flutter or fib all day or night so looks like they zapped the right spot. My only question as I waited for Dr. Whalen to show up was, “How many of these have you done?” His student resident was there so I asked him how many he had done on live patients. Chuckle, chuckle. “Thirty or forty” he said. They promised a 95% success rate. Looks like number 41 hit the jackpot! I’ve now got my old age heart problems solved early.

Thanks for your prayers and concern.

My Colonoscopy

Haven’t heard back for two weeks from the Gastroenterologist about the two little polyps he removed. Must be OK. I did have a few repercussions. You might want to look at this video. WARNING! Graphic! And for more interesting medical discussion about the Complete Colon Cleansing (CCC for short not to be confused with Campus Crusade for Christ) check out Dave Barry’s very interesting article. Here’s on the night before the CCC after drinking 3 liters of “GoLightly” massive laxative.