New Smoker.....

[Cary Kid]

Pards I didn't die or fall off the planet.......I have every intention of taking this smoker thread to the limit.....
I just been sick as a Dawg.....Got some kind of chest congestion and throat infection I just can't loose...........

On the up side.....I have been checking out no end of recipes for smoking everything from fishies to sausage..........

I am looking forward to the end of my bugs, and gittin smokin...........          

[Eloy Santa Cruz]

Cary Kid,

    Sorry to hear your feeling poorly. I came down with something like that right after New Years. I heard it takes a long time to kick so I never went to the doctor despite my wife's nagging. In the beginning of Feb. I became so weak I finally decided to go. Turned out I had pnemonia. Got on antibiotics and it took about another 6 weeks to get my strength back. Hope it's nothing serious and you're feeling better soon.

[litl rooster]

eagarly awaiting

[Cary Kid]

Oh, Man...........It's like I'm stuck in a dream I can't wake up from...........
Went to my Docs, told him I needed some "Bug Killers" to git rid of what's livin in my chest and making me misserable......
Just hackin and gackin all day and all night...........Doc says to me, "Your chest sounds OK to me"............Went home.......hacked and gacked for 3 more weeks..........My anual blood test........By the way Doc, I'm still sufferin fron the chest cold and sore throat from heck..........
Spent half the day in the hospital Monday, getting tested......Breathing tests.......Which I'm sure I failed as I'm so clogged up it ain't even funny no more..........Sleepin laying down is a dream from another time....I'm sleepin settin up.......CAT scan of my chest to see if anything is wierd............I'm sure it's going to look clogged up...........I'm going to see my Doc once again tomorrow........
Can't wait to hear what he comes up with from all the tests...........I don't know where his head is at........I still think I need "Bug Killers"/ antibiotics to clear up my foobar chest and throat....................It's kinda funny how life goes......I have become rather a quiet person since my throat cancer 4 years ago, I can only wisper to be heard...........I have a hard time at public events, everyone talks right over me.....I don't manage to get a word in edgewise......And that's understandable.....My Doc of course talks right over what I'm trying to whisper to him.......Lets just say he dosen't listen well.........Or worse, he thinks he knows best how I feel...........

Tomorrow should be quite interesting, can't wait to hear what his diagnosis will be.........If he didn't find anything special with all them tests.........................I'm going to have to find a new Doc.........................
Why don't they just listen?...................

And my new little smoker is sitting in the garage feelin un loved................

[litl rooster]

CK Hope you get over what ever crud gotta hold of your lungs

[Camille Eonich]

My Doc of course talks right over what I'm trying to whisper to him.......Lets just say he dosen't listen well.........Or worse, he thinks he knows best how I feel...........

Tomorrow should be quite interesting, can't wait to hear what his diagnosis will be.........If he didn't find anything special with all them tests.........................I'm going to have to find a new Doc.........................
Why don't they just listen?...................

I would get a new doctor ASAP if you truly feel he isn't listening to you and thinks he knows more about how you feel than you do.  That's not the signs that a good doctor should be putting out.

[Cary Kid]

He's got me an appointment with a Pulmonary specialist for this comming Tuesday, and he really wants me to persue it........
Here's the score...........
I think I have a chest infection and throat infection........
He thinks that since the Cat Scan showed clean lungs it's something wierd with my sinuses and breathing........
I got to go with his call for now.........At least give it a shot..........Gotta give the Doc his due..........I might be an extreemly hard headed boy, but I at least know for sure I'm not a Doctor...........

If I get to the other side of this thing and it turns out all I needed was some antibiotics for my chest and throat............
I will go Doc shopping.............

It's just funny to me because it feels like all the other cases of Strep Throat and chest congestion I ever had............

I'll just have to let the Specialist do his thing..........

This is right up there Pards, with blindly trusting your Investment Advisor...........   It's just durn hard to do..............

It's hard for me to simply swallow my gut feelings, and take the advise.........

[Camille Eonich]

This is right up there Pards, with blindly trusting your Investment Advisor...........   It's just durn hard to do..............

There ya have it,  I don't do that either.  LOL

[Modoc]

Kid,

You might also consider an ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat).  I was having terrible allergies, bronchitis and developing asthma, but went to an ENT as the next step.  Turned out that I had bone spurs closing off the sinus passages.  Long story short, the Bronchitis has gone away, allergies are down and the asthma is SIGNIFICANTLY reduced.  Basically, nothing would come out the front and it was causing lots of problems including migraine type headaches.

[Cary Kid]

Pards, It's gonna be a spell before I can get back to my smoker thread.......Seems my Cancer from 2006 has come back to haunt me once more, and I have to deal with all that for a while..........
Sorry Pards......

[Camille Eonich]

I'm so sorry to hear that Kid but you'll be back at that smoker in no time turning out some good ribs and bbq.

[litl rooster]

Best wishes to your recovery and kicking the "C" ass

[Cary Kid]

I will give it my best shot..........
You can bet on that.......

[brazosdave]

I got an old New Braunfels smoker, strictly a charcoal and wood guy, I won't mess with gas or electric. It gets a good workout starting about this time every yr, when the weather starts to cool a bit. I just did a pork tenderloin and jalepeno poppers, and other than the normal stuff like brisket, roasts, chickens, etc. For Thanksgiving, I'm smoking a turkey. Got turned on to that a couple yrs ago by an old fella that goes to my church. Nothing tastes better than some good smoked turkey!