Bon Appetit! and Saturday's update

I thought that I would share something that sounded good and tasted good to Woody right from the start of getting out of the hospital after the first Interleukin 2 treatments. I enjoy cooking so when we got home I started listing some of his favorite recipes. I would name and he would shake his head--most of the time he shook it "no." But, from the first, when I mentioned the following omelet recipe, he shook his head "yes," and, when I made it, it tasted good to him. It is a recipe that we found some years back in a Williams-Sonoma catalog:

Spinach and Gruyere Omelette
3 eggs
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste (I usually omit both of these)
1 Tbs. water
1 tsp. unsalted butter (I usually brush the omelet pan with olive oil instead)
1/3 cup shredded Gruyere cheese
1/3 cup loosely packed spinach leaves (I usually stack the spinach leaves and thinly slice them.)

In a bowl, combine eggs, salt, pepper and water. Beat lightly with a fork until well blended. In an 8" omelet pan over medium-high heat, melt butter, swirling pan to coat it evenly. Add eggs and cook, using a wooden or silicone spatula to lift up cooked eggs around the edges while tilting pan to let uncooked eggs flow underneath, until eggs are fully cooked, 2-3 min. Sprinkle cheese evenly over omelette, place spinach on one half of omelette and fold in half. Gently slide omelette onto a plate and serve immediately.

One of the things that two of the Woody's nurses showed concern over towards the end of his second IL-2 stay was that one of his lab tests showed that he was anemic...to the point of almost needing a blood transfusion. The doctors never seemed to be concerned over that particular test. But I decided that when we got home that we were going to really work on getting him built back up. So this omelet, which has tasted good to him even when other food didn't, has become a regular way for him to start his day--along with a lot of other good things at his other meals and snacks to build him back up. When he had lab work done last week the number had gone up 10--still not in the normal range, but not in the dangerous range any longer. So looks like he is eating better. He has to be eating better since there for a little while he was eating next to nothing! As far as out of whack lab numbers...I just think that IL-2 has done "a number" on his whole system and it is going take a while to have normal readings once again.

Now for Saturday's update on Woody...he is definitely getting stronger daily, his hoarseness is getting better, but the itching and peeling are still with him and show no signs of going away any time soon! He finished the book that he started yesterday and started another one--a good sign! And March Madness is still in the air.