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@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.💪🏼

Hello everyone! It has been a minute.

Tonight at 10:30 I brewed a pot of coffee and drank two cups. Must have known I would decide to pop onto BCO and do some catch- up reading. It is now 2:27 a.m. and I am wide awake. Also ate half a bag of Cheezies while reading and will be cleaning those obnoxious, orange crumbs out of my keyboard forever.

I am obviously out of the loop but picked up a few threads as I read.
Irishlove hooray on your remission! That is wonderful news and I understand your slightly skeptical approach. You want it to be true and don't want to be disappointed. I hope for the best! You also mentioned taking gabapentin for nerve pain. Hubby has CMT ( a fairly recent diagnosis late in life) and he suffers with nerve pain due to genetic nerve degeneration. He also has been given gabapentin and doesn't find it all that helpful. What he does find helpful is lion's mane mushroom tincture. We are not big into woowoo medicine. But he really feels this has greatly reduced the stabbing, shooting, electrical burning type pains he gets. When he quits the tincture, those pains return. He also has crushing pain from utter destruction of the cartilage in both his ankles. Walking is hell! The lion's mane tincture does NOT help with the osteoarthritis pain. But does with the nerve pain - two totally different types of pain, according to him. He also recently had a throat scope due to unrelenting acid reflux and now he has trouble swallowing food. (we are still waiting for biopsy results) Incidentally he was also diagnosed with high cholesterol, freaked out, decided randomly that drinking pure cranberry juice will fix him. It has NOT fixed his cholesterol but it has fixed his chronic acid reflux by about 80%! But wow - that stuff is brutal to drink! Who knew!

Mara Girl…wow! You bounced right back. Had a bit of a go there but came through. I cheered! Reading about your menu adventures I wonder, have you ever tried making your own yogurt? When yogurt got so expensive I got angry and thought, screw this, I'll make my own. Turns out that I can make it cheaper than buying it. One problem is that you have to hold it at a steady, warm temperature for an extended time and this is where I had several failures. At least that's where I think things went wrong - hard to know for sure - yogurt can be finnicky. But I finally found a work-around and have had success since. If you are interested I can give you a boring how- to here. Stay strong!

Mel did I read this correctly? Your daughter is going through breast cancer treatment? I don't have words for this. It must have taken all the air out of your lungs and blood out of your veins when you heard that news. That is NOT FAIR and NOT RIGHT! I hope I am wrong. And I hope if I am not wrong, that all the healing power of the universe is with her right now.

As for me. Life rolls on. Hub is having more and more health problems. Not sure what is due to aging (63) what is due to this new CMT diagnosis. Sadly we found out that our daughter has inherited this genetic disorder and will face issues that cripple her as she ages. At least if she knows it's coming she can get care early to help slow down the worst effects. Hub never knew he had it. His father has it. His sister has it. No one knew a thing about it until a couple years ago. But he is having more and more problems and that changes how retirement looks.

I have a mamm coming up in March and always get tense. Pain in boob was the thing that urged me to get a mamm way back end of 2016. They always say breast cancer doesn't hurt. Well mine did! And that boob is hurting again, round back to my shoulder blade and that sets off alarms. We know that cancer mind - leaps to the worst case.

Other downer thing is my eyeballs. They have lost their minds! About 2 years ago I'm cooking dinner when suddenly my eye goes all hazy and foggy and flashing lights. Off to eye doc who says I have a posterior vitreous detachment. In other words, a massive floater and bleeding into the eyeball. 18 months later the other eye did the same thing. So now I have markedly obscured vision in both eyes. It's not a detached retina, but it puts my chances of having a detached retina up by a huge percentage. Looking at the screen now is like someone put a blob of vaseline in my eyes. You should see me try to thread a needle! Ugh!

We are having a weird winter. No snow. Rain. Mud. Feeling almost Spring-ish. Have urge to start seeds then remind myself, slow down. It's only February. In Canada. You are not going to escape winter yet!

Hugs, health and healing to you all. It was nice to poke my head in the living room and see what's going on.