Sorry for the lack of posts, but dad went to the hospital again with chest pains and elevated blood pressure at 4 am. He’s been in observation all day and is now being released after having no troponin show up in three consecutive tests. As it turns out, this time, it was the home made Chorizo sausage he made last night that came back with a vengeance in the middle of the night. I’m just happy that he learned his lesson from the actual heart attack in January, and this time when he had chest pain they just went immediately to the hospital.
Also, Go Steelers!
NotMax
Kindest thoughts.
Sure sounds like a salable title for a SYFY original movie.
Odie Hugh Manatee
My first thought was that I’m happy to hear that your Dad is doing fine and that it was only a recipe/eating mishap.
I deleted my second thought because I’m a nice guy. :D
Jerzy Russian
Glad to hear that your Dad and you are OK. I was thinking about sending the St. Bernards out after you.
JCT
Better embarrassed than dead as we say in cardiologist-speak.
Svensker
Jeez, Cole. No more excitement from the Parental Units, please. Glad everything came down to sausage, though.
Best thoughts to you all!
Neutron Flux
Chiefs fan here, but this will be ugly.
YellowJournalism
Your poor Dd! At least everything is okay. As someone who went to the hospital for what turned out to be acid reflux and a panic attack, I know that as a patient you feel embarrassed once you find out it’s not that bad. But better safe than sorry! Best wishes!
Corner Stone
Just can’t handle the sausage, eh?
Comrade Jake
Glad he’s OK, John.
Mr Stagger Lee
@JCT: Ditto that, I had chest pains last Thursday and went to the Urgent Care, 5 hours of tests and EKGs, turned out negative. Going to the cardiologists for tests in a couple weeks. I had some relatives drop dead from heart attacks that happened quickly, so I don’t play with this stuff.
Bill E Pilgrim
Good for him/you. Better safe than sorry and etc. And having said that, I couldn’t help thinking of this old favorite.
Baud
Glad to hear your dad will be home in time for the game.
Richard
Chorizo, the Silent Killer, soon to be on a double bill with Matango, the Fungus of Terror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRYjJoZfc
Schlemizel
I’m not sure that stuff is always silent!
Calming Influence
My Dad was almost taken down with andouille.
ruemara
argh, this sounds like the past 2 Fridays for me. 4 visits to ER, last one due to having a nice cuppa green and ginseng like I had for years, except this time my bp meds fail. I know just how damned scary it can be. Tell your dad that CHORIZO IS OFF THE MENU! Except for homemade and salt free. Possibly even meat free. Sorry.
goblue72
Having had an acid reflux attack before, the pain can be insane, leaving you wondering if you are having a heart attack, exploding appendix, or something else. Gastric juices are not joke – only thing more acidic is battery acid. Its amazing that our own stomaches don’t eat themselves.
Schlemizel
@ruemara:
I went looking for a turkey alternative from my own Thanksgiving & noticed a company called “Field Roast”. Their turkey roll is highly rated and I noticed they have several sausages including Chorizo. Now ground meat is not a problem for me so its not a great deal but I am interested, anybody here tried these things & are they any good?
Mary G
Happy to hear it was a false alarm. Healthcare, who knew?
Warren Terra
Since it’s home-made, I guess he just needs to add some chalk or a proton-pump-inhibitor to the recipe next time.
Maude
What a scare.
Glad the dad is okay.
donnah
I’m glad your dad is okay, John. Better safe than sorry. I experienced some terrible chest pains a few years ago with numbness in my left hand and shortness of breath. My husband took me to the hospital and it was determined that I was having a gall bladder attack.
I was kind of embarrassed, but in the end, I was glad I had it checked out. A few months later, I had the offending gall bladder removed to prevent further attacks.
Here’s to a quick recovery from the scare AND the sausage.
Comrade Jake
Also, 11th dimensional chess:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/health/dream-team-of-behavioral-scientists-advised-obama-campaign.html?hp
AliceBlue
Been wondering where you were, John. Glad to hear everything turned out ok.
Mudge
Never apologize for caring more about your family than us.
arguingwithsignposts
@Corner Stone:
That’s what she said!
ranchandsyrup
I remember Troy McClure from such films as Firecrackers: The Silent Killer, Preacher with a Shovel and Suddenly Last Supper.
Sorry, those last 2 were prolly offsides. Hope Big Daddy Cole is recovering well.
Also, too, I miss Phil Hartman.
cathyx
I finally got an iphone and got the phone set up to use. I set all the sounds for the different functions to the way I figured I would like them to sound. Then later that evening, I kept hearing my cat make an odd sound, and I thought he was coughing up a hairball, but it turned out I was missing out on some text messages. So I had to changed the text tone to something that didn’t sound like my cat coughing up a hairball.
arguingwithsignposts
@Comrade Jake:
Well, Mitt was 0-for-2 there.
trollhattan
Goes down as one of the bestest thread titles ever. Glad everything is okiedokie, and dad hasn’t surrendered any further body parts.
Interesting fellow.
First time I looked at a chorizo label in the supermarket I got to “pork snouts and thymuses” and you could hear my brain’s “full stop” tire squealing all the way to produce. I continue to maneuver around the stuff very gingerly.
Ben Franklin
Betcha’ the docs are taking away all the fat, salt and sugar from his diet. It seems cruel to deny them the last vestige of life’s joy, when it doesn’t make any difference.
Let him have his chorizo.
arguingwithsignposts
Also, glad to hear your dad is okay, Cole. Chorizo does that to me too.
Roger Moore
@goblue72:
They do sometimes; it’s called a peptic ulcer. And BTW, the acid is not the big worry with your stomach juices; acid, even fairly strong stuff, simply isn’t that damaging to your tissues. It’s the digestive enzymes that do the real damage.
cathyx
I’m sorry that John wasn’t doing what I figured he was doing instead. I figured he was with ‘the ladyfriend’.
Roger Moore
@Schlemizel:
Might I suggest a side dish only Thanksgiving? My sister throws a great vegetarian thanksgiving, and they just have extra side dishes instead of a turkey substitute. It’s great. Instead of filling up on turkey, you have space for ten or twelve different side dishes and four or five kinds of dessert. It’s like tapas.
gogol's wife
I’m glad your father is okay. I hope his thumb wound is healing all right.
gogol's wife
@Roger Moore:
That sounds really good.
Raven
Just came from Cloud Atlas, sort of like Amistatjeremiahjohsonbladerunner.
Comrade Mary
@trollhattan: Hotdogs. English bangers. You’d weep if you could do as well as snouts and thymuses when you eat those.
Good to hear that your Dad’s OK, John. Good on him for taking symptoms seriously, too.
Thoughtcrime
Chorizo, the Silent Killer
That’s one of my favorite Neil Young/Crazy Horse songs.
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary:
Mmm…sweetbreads!
Roger Moore
@cathyx:
Might I suggest bird calls? I’ve assigned different birds to different functions and different people, so I can tell what’s happening by recognizing the species. You can even make subtle comments about people based on which bird you assign them.
Just Some Fuckhead
I have two or three of those heart attacks a week.
Joseph Nobles
@Raven: But spiritual.
Thoughtcrime
@Richard:
I have the DVD of that!
Also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHbL8a71Hoo&feature=fvwrel
Maude
@Roger Moore:
I have a Bob White on my laptop for open applications.
I’ve used this sound for years on computers. I had the old laptop to a shop to get more memory and saw they guy with his ear to the little on board speakers. He was listening to the birdies.
Maude
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Is the cause eight years old?
cathyx
@Roger Moore: I’m not a birder, but I could see using songs. But it was really for text, email, and phone call, alerts.
gbear
Glad to hear your dad was OK. I’ll confess I’ve done the same thing. I do have two suggestions for your dad:
1. Have his doctor prescribe Omerprazole 40mg. Works well and a prescription is double the dose and a fraction the cost of the OTC stuff.
2. 1/2 teaspoon of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda in half a glass of water. The instructions are on the side of the box. Tastes like crap but cuts heartburn like nobody’s business.
Corner Stone
@cathyx:
So either way you figured there was sausage involved? Either Dad Cole with Chorizo or John Cole with him pawing at some poor woman with his sausage like fingers.
jeffreyw
Chorizo recipe! Please!
cathyx
@Corner Stone: I thought you were going to say; either dad cole with chorizo or john cole with chorizo. Good for you for being clean.
JWL
Give your father a big “thumbs up” from me.
burnspbesq
Doesn’t your old man know that chorizo is for breakfast? As in chorizo and scrambled egg burritos?
Schlemizel
@gogol’s wife:
Heaven forfend anyone ask – some people get very upset that people cared enough to ask earlier.
In order to divert their attention I’d like to link to a video that had me laughing so hard I had tears!
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/11/11/scenes-from-a-maul-2012/
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: I have to say that I’m pretty sure that when Cole is intimate with a woman, he’s not pawing at her. There’s a lot more to Cole than that. Geez.
Bill E Pilgrim
@jeffreyw: Win.
Modified version: I’ll have what he’s having!
Felonius Monk
Happy to hear that the Dad unit is okay.
Chorizo, huh?
My old man went down when mom hit him up side of the head with the kielbasa. She just did not know, what every man knows: Sausage hurts!
JPL
@Schlemizel: Seconded…
Kristine
Hard to differentiate between indigestion and heart attack sometimes. Better to play it safe.
Glad Dad is okay.
Raven
@Joseph Nobles: Yea, I wish it had subtitles. I could barely hear Hanks and Berry on the island and other parts were equally unintelligible for me.
Maude
@Maude:
Sorry, I thought it was Corner Stone.
Schlemizel
@Roger Moore:
But we are not vegetarian so there will be turkey, I just am not able to eat it. I get to smell it and see it (Hell, I probably get to roast it) I just don’t get to eat it. So I found a couple of alternatives (one is fake turkey the other is chestnut and cranberry en coute) that I plan on having.
Thanks for the suggestion, maybe I’ll toss out a couple extra sides this year but there will be fowl.
LT
Two Aussie meat pies for dinner last night – big mistake.
Chorizo he made? Wow. Impressive.
Glad to hear it turned out all right.
JPL
John, Glad Papa is doing okay. It’s been awhile since we have had a video of his pups tearing apart his house so we need him healthy and at home.
Warren Terra
@jeffreyw:
Sure you wouldn’t prefer a recipe with less baggage?
Raven
@LT: God, I once ate a couple of meat patties in Negril while drinking overproof and sparkin splifs. I have never been sicker in my life.
WaterGirl
@Schlemizel: The only thing I thought was funny in the video was the guy carrying the romney cutout. I can’t laugh at the pain these people are experiencing, they are devastated I’m pretty sure that if Obama had lost, I would still be rocking in the corner. But man am I glad we won!
TooManyJens
@Schlemizel: I’ve had some soyrizo that I really liked in chili. I think the brand was Frieda’s.
jeffreyw
Bill E Pilgrim
@Warren Terra: I think it was perfect.
Man 1: My father was in the hospital, turned out to just a chorizo that was so hot that it felt like having a heart attack.
Normal person: Oh my. Well, good that he checked, etc etc.
Foodie: Man, I need that chorizo recipe!
jeffreyw
@Warren Terra:
No, I’m fine with that.
JPL
@jeffreyw: Baked cheese with chorizo is awesome with chips or tortillas..
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
Haven’t seen it yet, but this seems to be in keeping with some of the reviews.
Anne Laurie
@Ben Franklin:
Only for breakfast, though, so if it backfires he’ll be able to visit the ER during business hours.
SiubhanDuinne
John, I’m glad your dad is okay.
Now. Any chance of a Tunch picture?
jeffreyw
@JPL:
I’m with ya, there.
Mr Stagger Lee
So who is the first coach canned? Romeo Crennel? Andy Reid? Norv Turner?
SiubhanDuinne
@JWL:
That’s so wrong. Funny, but wrong.
Schlemizel
OK – so I made chorizo from scratch once but I didn’t think it was as good as what I could buy. I can get that recipe if you guys really want it. Anybody interested?
Bill E Pilgrim
@jeffreyw: Yum. Hey you can’t just post things like that and not tell us what it is. What’s that next to it, chicken? Looks just like chicken. But not positive.
JPL
John’s time line is a little off. John’s dad went to the hospital at 4 this morning but John has been missing the last few days. This is an interesting case of where has John been?
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl:
You sound fairly confident Paula. Something you’d like to tell the committee?
Corner Stone
@Maude:
No, I got rid of the ex in 2007.
MikeJ
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Alex Chilton died because even though he’d had chest pains, he thought it was nothing, and hey, musicians don’t have health insurance so he couldn’t afford a massive ER bill.
Which makes me feel bad about all those smokes he bummed off me at shows.
El Cid
@JPL: He has been John Galt!
Raven
@Corner Stone: Boy, set that one up on a tee.
catclub
@cathyx: My favorite ringtone is crickets chirping.
Also, isn’t chorizo sausage redundant, like PIN number?
Corner Stone
@Maude: I keep trying to woo JSF to take me to the mountaintop but that selfish prick still only has eyes for Cole.
Valdivia
So glad to hear he is ok.
JPL
@El Cid: To be fair maybe he was resting up in case he had to spend the day in the Hospital with his family.
Mnemosyne
Same thing happened to my friend’s husband — feared heart attack turned out to be a nasty acid reflux attack. But it was definitely better safe than sorry in that case, because his father did die fairly young of heart trouble, so they were better off getting it looked at.
Also, too, for those who don’t know, digestive troubles can be an early symptom of heart problems, particularly in women. I’m still pissed at my mom’s previous cardiologist, who ignored all of her reports of tummy troubles and told her she was lactose intolerant when in fact she was in early heart failure. (She’s fine now, but I’m still pissed off.)
Raven
First lead of the year for KC!
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: I am missing your “paula” reference. Is this clinton related?
Corner Stone
@cathyx:
There is absolutely nothing clean about mentioning those horribly mangled cotton stuffed zucchini nightmares.
Puppets have more realistic fingers.
Schlemizel
I found the recipe & it isn’t even Thursday night!
10 dried guajillo chili peppers -stemed & seeded
7 dried arbol chili peppers -stemed & seeded
4 dried New Mexico chili peppers -stemed & seeded
2 med onions, peeled and chopped fine
5 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 1/2 cups cider vinegar
2 Tbl ground cumin
2 Tbl Mexican oregano
2 tsp smoked hot paprika
2 Tbl kosher salt
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground clove
1 Tbl freshly ground black pepper
3 Lb ground pork
Wipe down the dried peppers then open & deseed them. Toast the chili peppers in a hot pan about 1 minute on each side. Transfer them to a large stainless steel or glass bowl, layer the chopped onion and garlic on top. Heat the vinegar until very warm to the touch. Pour over the chili peppers, onions, and garlic and lay a plate on top to weigh them down. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let set at room temperature for an hour.
Transfer all of the peppers, onions, garlic and vinegar to a blender and process until you have a smooth, thick paste. Blend in the spices, If necessary, add another splash of vinegar to help things move along. Let cool completely.
When the chili paste is completely cool, add it to the ground pork and mix thoroughly, using your hands, until everything is a uniform color.
You can use this as loose sausage or squeeze into casings if you have the tools & desire
cathyx
@Corner Stone: So are you saying that John’s hand looks like this?
jeffreyw
@Bill E Pilgrim: That’s just an enchilada wrapper sans adobo sauce or cheese. The enchiladas are filled with chorizo, black beans and cheddar.
Lojasmo
Please remind father cole to thank FDR for Medicare.
Bill E Pilgrim
@jeffreyw: Ah okay, thanks.
PurpleGirl
@Lojasmo: Make that thanks to LBJ.
jeffreyw
@Schlemizel: Thanks! I’ve been using various dried chili powders in mine, but the adobo you make in this recipe looks damn good.
Schlemizel
@PurpleGirl:
OH NO!
LBJ can never be given credit for anything. All that stuff, civil rights act, voting rights act, hell even the space program he personally rammed through Congress for JFK came via immaculate conception. Don’t you know that LBJ was a bad man?
gogol's wife
@Maude:
I get them mixed up too.
Schlemizel
@jeffreyw:
Let me know if you make this. I like it but its not what I think of when I eat chorizo. I guess it depends on what you want. This is good stuff & I never thought of using the paste as adobe I have a different recipe for that but I may try this – thanks for the idea.
Raven
@Schlemizel: Always and forever, fuck LBJ.
kc
God bless your dad. And your mom!
Corner Stone
@gogol’s wife: We’re both white guys and all but he’s fucking gay. Don’t put me in the same place as that sausage loving, mountaintop drug using, seducer of Armed Forces personnel.
I mean, I like sausage and all. And football, with their tight pants and sweaty locker room interviews and all that manly shit.
But don’t confuse me with that abomination!
Corner Stone
Either FYWP has decided to choke on my balls or there is an issue with a comment I just posted.
Schlemizel
@Raven:
Trust me I understand. Had he been willing to risk the Presidency he might have avoided the worse excesses of Viet Nam. But he chickened out when the ghouls at the Pentagon leaked the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident.
I’m not saying he should not be selecting a pineapple in hell but there are a hell of a lot of things he deserves credit for that people want to bury.
The train was put on the track in ’57 when Ike sent Marines to stop the free elections because Ho would have won. JFK got pushed just a bit further. Johnson is no saint & there is a wall (with the names of a cousin & a high school friend of mine on it) that will always highlight his failure of courage when the moment came.
denali
Glad to hear your Dad is okay. I am trying to avoid the chorizo issues.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Paula Broadwell is the woman with whom David Petraeus was (ALLEGEDLY!) having an affair.
Patricia Kayden
When Balloon Juicers make an impromptu visit to your home, please no “home made Chorizo sausage”. Thanks in advance.
And sorry to hear about your Father. Hope he gets better. My Dad was hospitalized briefly for heart problems a while back and I know how scary that can be.
PurpleGirl
@Schlemizel: I know he did a number of bad things, but he was a complex man, a human. He did a lot of good too.
Felonius Monk
@Lojasmo:
Schlemizel
@PurpleGirl:
My point exactly but a lot of people want to forget the good because of the horror he unleashed. Guys like Raven bore the brunt of that horror.
Its like the discussion of Hoover the other day. The total picture is complex.
Violet
So glad your dad was okay! Gotta watch that spicy chorizo.
Angela
Really glad your Dad is fine, and that he went to the ER to get it the pain checked out.
Corner Stone
I’ve got some spicy chorizo if anyone wants to see what happens?
No? {sigh}
PurpleGirl
@Schlemizel: Then you deal with the complexity. You cannot keep denying what happened, you cheat yourself and everyone else when you do that. After all even FDR did some evil things — American-Japanese internment, for example.
Aaron
one and a half thumbs up!
Yutsano
Sigh. And no one asks the most important question:
Mexican or Spanish? These things MATTER people!!
presquevu
For Restless Sausage Syndrome, Po Chai (Chinese stomach energy pills) act like a miracle cure for me.
Lojasmo
@trollhattan:
Nothing wrong with offal (thymus) Dunno about the snout, though. Eh…why not?
Lojasmo
@PurpleGirl:
I curse myself for lack of interest in American history as a young person.
I had actually typed “LBJ” but replaced it with FDR. Should have googled.
Edo
Re: chorizo recipe up-thread…you really should go 1/2 and 1/2 ground pork and ground beef. you really can taste the difference. The Complete Meat Cookbook, by Bruce Aidells and Dennis Kelly has an excellent recipe (skip the rice).