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Hy Girly Girls. I totally 💯% agree with @mara51506 not wanting to go out in the cold. We had some some heavy windy days in the teens but the wind chill factor hit -7 degrees a few days. I’ve been really feeling sorry for the birds and other critters in this cold weather. The snow has not yet melted and is just a hard sheet of ice now after the rain, 🌧️ the dogs hate going out and can only walk on top of the iced over snow in the back yard, I’ve been earnestly makining food for the birds mixing seed with peanut butter and coconut oil and grated corn muffin mixed in and putting it out in the yard just to give them energy & warmth. I’ve been reading that they all usually huddle together next to each other to keep each other warm in cover of dense bushes and trees. and here they all seem to do it in the giant Holly tree at the edge of our neighbor’s property and out in our front yard. So I hung a bird feeder there with my seed mixture and then spread the rest of the mixture over the ground,. DH threw some rye bread and all the seagulls saw him and ate it all. 🤪

I missed 2 PT days last week and today. I’ve still had that cough that won’t go away and some kind of belly bug causing nausea and the big D and with this nausea I’ve also had esophogitis or inflamed esophogus with the nausea and acid stomach. So that’s been my week. So far. Dear @threetree I hope your new treatment on Xeloda starts to lessen the fatigue and weakness. The Verzenio has always caused me to feel the same way, especially this time of year. @irishlove sorry the cold snap caused the losses of your plants.. I alwys loved my garden too. And hey there @runor.😊Love to see you poping in all the time. @tanya_djamila Hello there girl. good to see you also.

Hey @cookie54 jersey girl How have you been doing in this icey cold these days? I think of you often. So I haven’ t tuned into the Olympics, Just been watching movies, and have been following the Annie Guthrie disappearance closely, My heart goes out to Savannah Guthrie, especially now with the big break in this case.

So all my Ladies I’m wishing you all a restful peaceful evening.🥰

Go Hawks!

Hi everyone. Hope you are warm and cozy and no icy, wintery conditions to interfere with life. All our efforts to cover plants, bring in plants and watch nightly lows, failed due to one night we didn't know was coming. Lost alot of ground plants, some potted, hibiscus looks awful as does the bottlebrush tree. We'll see in a week or so when we need to cut back the plants, hoping to find life. The four community cat beds I made, well two are being used. Hurray for that as I have straw everywhere. The birds love the straw for nests, so I guess the mess is worth it.

Caught up on reading and hope each and everyone is doing good in 2026. I have a pet scan this month, if all is still NED, then I can go to yearly screening. In all honesty, I hurt so badly in back and chest and thighs. Can't tell if it's arthritis or MS. Thursday I started the day with terrible chest pain, right sided. It hurt horribly to breathe in. The pain was right along a mastectomy line between two ribs. I gave it another day and then saw the doctor. She sent me over to the ER, concerns with blood clots, pneumonia, etc. Well, after all that testing, NADA. No diagnosis. Bye the way, I hate, hate morphine. Makes me feel like I'm dying. Anyway no relief to this day, so I don't breathe deeply. Going out on a limb and thinking it's either a pulled muscle or MS related.

My Feb. is full of appts. I much rather stay home and be left alone. LOL. Anyone else watching the Olympics? I loved the figure skating, so beautiful and brilliant. Now the curling event, not my cup of tea.

In pockets for every scan and life's trials in general.

Laurel

@mara51506 Isn't it amazing how you can click a button to order and it's already on the way! You wonder how we survived before these amenities. I like the convenience and also use it but still enjoy some in person shopping when the weather is nicer. Looking forward to breaking through freezing here also before we know it will all be behind us we'll be complaining of the heat. lol

@runor Hey there it's nice to see ya,glad you popped in! Sorry to hear about your family's struggles with CMT . I hope there is progress in this space to help families affected by this.Oh and geez your eye issues, well that was scary I'm sure. I hope it stabilizes and you never have to deal with a detachment.

Well the Superbowl was a bit boring but I did watch. I was rooting for Seattle being I felt like Darnold has done his time and has been a fighter his whole career. Cheers to all the Seahawk fans! Hope the Eagles rebuild their offense and gel better next year. Quiet week here just monthly MO appt on Thursday.

Thinking and praying for all here hope it's a good week for all! 🌞

I know it is superbowl for fans or just a get together with really good foods and a choice of halftime shows as there are a couple to choose from.

I just woke up, nothing on the agenda for me as usual. We are going to be warmer into next week, all this cold was a bit much. Nice and sunny here though today which is nice to see.

I plan to cook up some ground beef to go along with some crispy lentils and rice. I am also trying to pick up a 3 pack of lean ground beef, expecting they will not have any but will find out. I do think it is worth getting lean ground beef since the regular stuff is just too greasy and bad for the digestive system. Later can add an egg into rice, cheese, seasonings and crispy lentils.EDIT They apparently had some of the lean ground beef stuff, 3 chubs for 10 bucks, now am paying tip but also should have ordered other stuff, next time keep minimum order to 35. I only placed order 15 mins ago and it is on its way already.

I hope everyone have a good day, in pockets for all and may the food be good.

Well, slept decently, in bed too late, need to start scaling back as there are a couple of cancer appointments coming up. I imagine Herceptin will be a longer appointment so may give 4 hours initially between Paratransit. I will need to get a loading dose and wait for an hour or so, I will see what I think. May buy some snacks to have and definitely ask for cheese.

Got laundry started, regular dish cloths first, get those spun out and in dryer then floors, quick sweep mop etc. Put together garbage and take out to my bin just outside til it can go over to the garbage next garbage day. Cat litter garbage also needs to be changed and disposed of as well as kitchen garbage to go out. Recycle is collected in house so that is easy to manage

Not sure about food, ate up all Mcdonalds, not buying anymore skip the dishes food delivery because one meal like a burger meal, breakfast meal or anything else costs about 1/2 of what I spend on groceries which gives me many more meals. I also have the lifeline alert service that I pay for now which is a big chunk out of my bills. Meal may be good but not worth the price.

I am probably going to do something with my frozen beef burger done up yesterday, I used some of it yesterday in a beef and macaroni meal then decided to have a burrito meal with the burger meat. Could also do some air fryer hashbrown and eggs. Realized that I have little egg shapers so that if I preheated the air fryer, can put a cracked egg inside the holder and do a fancy egg mcmuffin type dish or toast the muffins and eggs together in the air fryer, so much in my head. Will post later if something good happens mealwise. If no post, likely will create my own queso type meal out of white rice, chicken or beef and bean, lots of options to consider.

Hope everyone has a good day and in pockets for everyone. In my own pocket to finish everything I start.

@runor Yogurt may be worth looking up how to make it on youtube. I just love the stuff if I do say so. I can hide stuff I do not like that is good for me like bananas, applesuce in the yogurt, use mio powder to flavour it all. Am also thinking of smoothies with different veggies in there. Done lentils and they were really good. I also like to crisp up beans, lentils and other stuff in my air fryer.

Slept fine last night, this morning adjusted the mattress topper as it was rolling over to the other side, felt like I could roll out even though sleep on back only. Also found a bed barrier so will try putting it together, no luck than will save money.

I made one of the Walmart frozen beef and tomato macaroni variety. Added canned chicken as well, seasoned with dry sour cream and onion, white cheddar, taco seasoning and salt, put everything in microwave, did up for 6 mins since my microwave is only 700 W, need to add 2 mins to every dish. Once stuff came out of oven, spooned mix into a large bowl and added queso as a binder. It was delicious with the meat in the macoroni and the addition of the chicken was good. Chicken was more like beef since I rinsed the chicken in the strainer first. It took on the taste of the rest of the stuff.

I hope everyone is having a good day and I am in pockets for everyone.

So I love hearing all the Positive news about stable scans, REMISSION,‼️How cool is that @irishlove. Keep doing what you’re doing my girl.

And the fact that our @mara51506 is home and recovering even with a little normal expected depression from her brain surgery. Wow how blessed we all are living in these times when Women & Men are befitting from the many treatments available for Stage IV Breast Cancer…I noticed during the month of October a lot of emphasis is beng talked about metstatic Breast cancer so there’s more of awareness of Stage IV.

And so glad to see @runor pop in.🥰 Glad you drank 2 cups of coffee and read through the threads🌷. this group has such a fast paced thread, ther’s a lot of us. and posting is daily, and always something new as we keep encouraging each others daily struggles 😢and triumphs.💪🏼

@irishlove I am so very happy on your remission news, takes out cancer from what you deal with in your life. Please continue to visit us here anyway, we all love to hear from you.

I forgot to complete my post today so here is how today went, completed laundry, bed was not made, will make it to get into it easier and make it up tomorrow.

I ate one of the beef and macaroni meals, heated 5 mins in microwave, put slices of garlic bread on top of it and heated those for the last minute. Once out, put some regular mayo as a binder, salt and sour cream and onion seasoning. Very good meal. Then couple hours later ate up the rest of my potato chips, sour cream and cheese flavour and after that a yogurt, was really very nice to eat