A Caregiver's World

Health insurance  matters are very complicated to understand even with the help of this video.  This video is however a guide to take the first step.

I haven't gone to a restaurant for 7 days now because I don't want to take a chance when a restaurant cook or waiter may be sneezing or coughing while serving my food.  I love eating out and I used to eat out almost everyday before this coronavirus scare.  I'm  however getting tired of having the same chicken soup for both lunch and dinner for the last 7 days.  I need to cook something different but easy since I'm not really a skilled cook.  This pasta dish looks  delicious and simple enough for me to make.

So, scientists all over the world are working on a vaccine at an unprecedented speed in the history of vaccine development.  I'm so glad to hear that.  In the meantime, I'm avoidinig going near potential virus carriers by postponing  my regular checkups at my doctors and dentists until later.

The number changes so quickly even the news outlets on Youtube seem to have a hard time catching up with the latest.  I'm worried of course because there are 2 cases cofirmed in a matter of 2 days where I live.  I've been following this since day one when my friend in Hong Kong started gossiping about this on social media back in November 2019.  I brushed her off back then and told her she followed too much fake news. I just didn't expect it was real and it would get here this fast because it was just last Wednesday that I went to the drug store to buy masks to ship "Express" to my friend in HK when she told me she and her family couldn't find any mask in HK....I went to my local drugstore, emptied the shelf of masks (all made in China), to ship  to Hong Kong. What an irony when Hong Kong is a city of China, and now I can't find masks to buy for myself because everywhere is so far telling me they are pending for re-stocking. Now as I watched China...

There are so many videos on Youtube teaching me how to make French toast and yet many of them are either plain annoyng or over-complicated. After watching many French toasts videos, I finally found this video that seems to be more practical for the small kitchen and a busy caregiver.

I bought this paper towel because I read so many good reviews about it. But I really can't stand the chemical smell on it.  I don't know what type of paper was recycled to make this paper towel.  Whatever it was, it didn't smell healthy to me.  I read that a lot of recycled paper has cancer causing BPA...The package says "No added chlorine, dyes, inks or fragrances." But my question is, what other chemical was used instead? I will not buy this paper towel again because it's really thin and flimsy, and it smells really bad to me. A lot of cooking videos advise the use of paper towel to pat dry meat and poultry, and the use of a wet paper towel to wrap a homemade frozen burrito to heat it up in microwave. I think this is definitely not the paper towel that should be used for such purposes.