I saw this on a friend's Facebook and had to steal it. Literally my life every time.
I have the best gyno ever. This is how much I like her:
I first went to Dr. Newcomb in my early twenties. She discovered my health abnormalities and she was the one to prescribe me wonderful pain medicine. She was at Deaconess but moved to the super ghetto south side about 2 or 3 years after I first starting going to her. I was devastated but I decided to stick with Deaconess and started seeing one of the other doctors there. I was not a fan of my new OB/GYN so I went running back to Dr. Newcomb.
As mentioned earlier, Dr. Newcomb now practices in a very run-down and seedy part of town. At my first appointment, she greeted me with, "Welcome back, gurl, I moved to the hooood!" (Yes, this lady has a sense of humor.) Anyway, I do not fit in with her clientele whatsoever and walking into her waiting room brings fits of panic and raging shame, embarrassment & depression. Everyone in her waiting room is women ranging from ages 14 - 40 visibly pregnant and pregnant by mistake. The women are either there alone with looks of both fear and hope on their face or they're there with their boyfriends, who have looks of regret and 'pissed off that the condom broke' on their face. Seriously, no one is just there for their annual well-woman exam. I walk in with a neon sign above my head screaming "INFERTILE!!" They all look at me funny (How come she's not pregnant? Is she just not showing, yet? Where's her baby daddy?) and the staff (who has seen my charts and knows of my medical condition) treat me differently... a bad kind of differently. It's a grueling 20-minute wait but eventually, I get to see Dr. Newcomb and everything is well again. I have to really like a doctor to subject myself to such torture in the waiting room. And I do; I love Dr. Newcomb. She's patient and kind and will answer all of my absurd questions.
So, back to my update... A few weeks ago, I went in for the follow-up to my endometriosis surgery (if you want to see pictures of what severe endometriosis looks like, let me know. I have gory detailed pictures of my uterus and ovaries. I won't post them here just in case you weren't planning on vomiting tonight.) Dr. Newcomb first asked if I wanted to see a fertility specialist to get pregnant. No. Okay, moving on... she said the surgery would buy me some time but eventually, I'll need to get on birth control. NOOO!!! I hate birth control. She said I have anywhere between six weeks to six months before the lesions start growing again. They flare up every time I have a period so it would be best if I just stopped having periods. AKA birth control or if I am completely 100% against birth control, I can just get surgery every few years to remove the endometriosis lesions. That's a no for my checkbook. So, I'm stuck. I don't want to be in immense pain & I don't want to have surgery every five years but I've done birth control before and it made me hate my life in so many other ways. Dr. Newcomb assured me that both medicine and my body have come a long way since the first time I was on birth control and there will be one that suites me. But for now, I will wait out my six weeks and see her in September, and in the meantime, she offered me a much stronger pain medicine for my menses. If you're wondering, the answer is no, I am not addicted to pain medicine. Dr. Newcomb actually told me that it's astonishing how much pain I can handle. She said that there are women with only one third as severe endometriosis as I have and they act like they're dying. I should be acting like I'm dying but I just pop some pills and move on with life. She said I was one tough cookie. Haha!
Oh and eventually (maybe 10 -15 years from now), I'll be getting a hysterectomy. Yay me, ain't my life great? The next time you feel like complaining about being pregnant or complaining about your children, just think... you could be me. Yeah, that will shut your complaining up pretty damn quickly.
That was the 'Woe is me'/angry/depressing/'I hate my life' part of this blog post. Now to the happy part... another recipe!!
This is the easiest recipe and all of the ingredients are pre-made. I usually use fresh ingredients but sometimes I get lazy after work and just want something simple. And I hate working with raw meat, especially slimy chicken. We'll be sauteing and baking so, really, you can say this is a "real cooking" recipe. Right? Aw hell, I don't need to defend myself... I'm using frozen veggies and canned chicken but in the end these chicken potpies look and taste so good!! One quick disclaimer, though... I originally got this recipe off a Campbell's soup can so I can't technically call it mine. But I did add some extra steps & ingredients to it to give it my own variation. Here goes:
Mini chicken potpies-
Ingredients needed: frozen mixed vegetables, dried parsley & basil, pepper, green onions, flax seed, butter spray, cream of chicken soup, canned chicken, flaky biscuits (it's imperative that you use the flaky ones), muffin pan
1. Saute the chicken and green onions.
2. Add the pepper, parsley & basil and continue to cook until the chicken is browned.
Sorry for the blurry picture... it was hot. I blame the steam. LOL
3. Mix in a large bowl (damn, forgot to add 'large bowl' to my ingredient picture) - chicken mixture, mixed vegetables, cream of chicken & flax seed. I don't know how much flax seed or vegetables. It changes every time I make it. I would probably use one and a half cup vegetables and a small handful of seeds. Unless you hate veggies & seeds...then use less. Then set mixture aside.
4. Get your muffin pans and your spray butter. Spray the heck out of those muffin pans! Also, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
5. Open up your biscuits and line the muffin pan with them.
Do this by pulling apart the biscuits. This is why you want to buy the flaky ones. This recipe makes twelve chicken potpies and each muffin needs to be torn into three pieces.
You'll have left over biscuits after you finish lining the pans, which is what you want. We'll need the rest of the biscuits later.
6. Spoon the chicken/cream of chicken/veggie mixture into each of the biscuit-lined muffin slots.
7. Using the leftover biscuits, cover the tops of the potpies. Tear the biscuits into individual pieces/layers like in step #5. If you don't want to do this, I suppose you can just buy more than one tube of biscuits. I've never thought of that before...
8. Bake at 350 degrees for half an hour. The biscuits should be nice n' brown and the insides bubbly n' hot. You can use a large spoon to get these out of the muffin pans. Since we used so much butter spray, the potpies should come right out.
Serve while they're still warm. I took what felt like so many pictures as I was making these. But it's still only 8 steps. I'm still doing good on my 'no more than 10 steps' rule. Yay \(^.^)/ Sorry, for the pre-recipe lady rant, if it offended you in any way. That wasn't my intent. Just had to keep it real. LOL I swear I don't talk like this in real life.
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