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@eleanora Thank you, I am glad to have the support of my family here and in real life. Appointments galore coming up.

I slept all night on couch unbroken, weird but there it is. Feel fine. got laundry, floors, cat area and sink to clear up as usual.

I have two more appointments coming up, pre admit stuff for upcoming surgery. 730 am dec 23 and and 10am dec 30. SIL called with those, problem is that my phone does not ring long enough, think it is only 15 seconds and have not found the right code to make it last for longer so when my phone did not pick up they called her. Oh well.

Again, will keep saying that I will be glad when all the preadmit stuff is done and get down to the actual surgery. My biggest issue for myself is just fatigue, when I was going through this the first time I was hopped up on steroids and no almost 10 years later, it is just a lot. I am still feeling pretty positive currently.

Meal is looking like almost a snack, going to crisp up some black beans in air fryer, once those are done, take queso and heat it up separately. Put beans, some tortilla chips and Doritos crunched up and have as more of a snack type vibe. Thinking of an egg tortilla later.

I do hope everyone has a good day, in pockets for all of us.

@mara51506 So glad you were able to get some good solid sleep as your body is recovering. Hope the humidifier helps, I sleep with one every night helps me with the dry forced heat in my house.

@threetree It's nice to see you but I'm sorry to hear you still don't feel well! I can't imagine your frustration in trying to get to the bottoms of this.I hope they're right and it was electrolyte and magnesium levels that were off. Fingers crossed for extra strength and a return to feeling like yourself!

@shanagirl Thank you for your words. I am actually feeling more positive now that things are on track. Yes, day of surgery may be a bit nervous, but that is OK, hospital stay is blah but oh well. I plan to be in an out in 3 days if surgery is on a friday. I will also bring along chargers to plug my phone into and get to look forward to steroids but I do find I can nap pretty well and have a nice sleep mask I can take there as well and listen to my rain.

As to the after surgery part, I will see and have a call with my cancer clinic social worker in January. If I am honest, I will be glad to get back to a more normal routine of Herceptin and the odd scan, echo and routine MRI. I like my quiet life over here where the most exciting thing for me is a good tv program, soap etc and what to throw in my air fryer next.

@goldensrbest Thank you I appreciate that, I know they would too. Learning finally stuff that has been going on for SIL and DB puts into perspective not jumping to conclusions if people are not calling as often and certainly gives some valuable info and for me not to assume it has anything to do with me.

I am making some air fryer frozen pizza , threw some black beans in as well to crisp them up. I quite enjoy the crispy beans and lentils.

I told the neurosurgeon as we were discussing symptoms etc that other than when on steroids, my eating as been fine, I imagine there will be some steroid actions again, if so, need rabeprazole but will find out later.

I have got to say the pizza and beans were super good. The air fryer just makes a wonderful crisp on top of pizza and the beans get nicely crunchy in there as well. Nice not to feel like I need to chop up the beans or other stuff and could use crunchy beans to mix into queso and chips or doritoes as a more nutritious snack. I also was too late for chocolate so just had a fingerful of peanut butter as a small dessert.