MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish
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I am blushing, not used to all this attention
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Me with my youngest granddaughter Lydia when I was in NC. I miss her. She is such a happy baby.
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My oldest granddaughter, Katiana, holding Lydia. I bunked with her in her room. We stayed up late laughing and joking. She said I was her best friend. Brought tears to my eyes. It was hard to leave them.
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This is the 2 1/2 yr old terror Abby although she looks innocent. ok, done showing off the grandkids. Found out the day I got back that I will be getting grandson #1 in September.
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Beautiful babies from a beautiful grandmother! Wish you the best Dianarose! Don't be surprised if you get a Canuck for a visiter in your new bakery! Xoxoxo Jo
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Thanks Jo. When I was diagnosed this last time I was so depressed that I totally gave up on any dreams. When my best friend (who was healty as a horse) died suddenly in February I realized that having cancer or not does not guarantee how long we will be around so I am moving forward.
Question- for anyone who has had dam TE's do you still feel like you have aliens in your chest after the exchange? I have had these dam things in for a yr now. My exchange is in June and I hope they don't feel as weird as the TE's.
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Georgeous girls, and CONGRATS on grand-son-to-be!
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Dianarose - Your grandkids are gorgeous and congrats on grandson #1 to come. Wish Texas were closer to Maine. I'm drooling. You make me want to bake. I know it will all come thru for you. Do people travel thru Sanford to get to the shore? I see by the map close to Kennebunkport. Sounds like a good time for a new bakery with summer on its way.
Ossa - you were never sideways to me but then I'm not under the table as Marlegal trying to peer over the edge.
Hope someone replies about the TEs but all I've read on here that alien feeling if not totally gone is MUCH improved. I think if I'd had them for a year I would def. want them GONE NOW.
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Just made some Hawaiian sweet bread. Soft with just a hint of sweetness from the pineapple juice in the recipe.
Sanford is about 30 minutes to the coast and there are a lot of lakes inland, so the best of both worlds.
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hey Diana, what cute grandbabies and then to have one you can actually converse and laugh with, it's really great you got to visit. Good luck with getting all the permits and such straightened out. Running your own business is lots of work but very rewarding.
One good thing about the lock down in Btown this week was I was able to get a hold of my MO. I get to take a break from my AI for a month. Yahoo!!!!! She made it very clear that I will have to take some sort of meds, but I was through with "toughing it out" on this one.
OK enough with the food pics. I am starting the clear liquid diet in the morning in prep for my colonoscopy on Tuesday. I've had one before so no real big deal. I think I will have had every system in my body checked out after this one.
Oh man, I just had to call my DD in CO after I saw on the news about the avalanche that killed some snow boarders. It was where she was riding last week. But she had been doing some retail therapy with a friend today. Whew! This world is a scary place lately.
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Dianarose - beyoooootiful granddaughters! And now a grandson coming in Sept - how wonderful for you!
Jo - I might just hitch a ride to Maine with you. Would make for a great road trip!
Mac - so very glad your DD is safe and sound.
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Diana,agree about gorgeous g'kids. I have two so recognize the awesomeness!
Mac, so glad your loves ones are ok
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Oh, yummy Diana! Those look delicious! I'm so glad you decided to "go for it" as far as owning your own bakery. Sounds like an ideal location, too. I bet you'll find it very fulfilling. And your granddaughters are beautiful! How did you like flying? Did you take any LE precautions?
Marlegal - thanks for the kind words about my son. Yeah, he's the light of my life. Even though he's in college, he lives at home so he still keeps me busy.
Yesterday, he and a friend wanted to go to an Apple Museum exhibit about 20 miles from here. I gave him the simplest route to go and printed it off. I didn't print return directions, because come on... you just reverse everything. Well, he and his navigationally-challenged friend ended up driving all over the place and circling the city before finally heading in the right direction to their college. I was on the phone with them and said, "Where are you now?" By the airport. Aargh! I said, "There's no exit ramp to your school coming from that direction." At which point his friend screamed like a woman because they had been driving for hours already. I had to laugh at that.
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Nothin' sez lovin' like something from the oven........
Mmmm, That Hawaiian bread would make a nice piece of toast for with my morning tea. Dianarose, Congrats on the soon-to-be addition of a boy grandchild into the mix, and glad to hear you had a great (and I bet exhausting) visit with the girls.
Mac, Hope your prep is not too torturous today. Guess what? My husband prepped yesterday and I am taking him in at noon today. I finally wore him down to go and get a screening. His prep liquid was GoLytely and I tasted that because it was different than the (mothball) one I had. His wasn't bad at all. Then, he completed his prep in three hours only, start to finish!!! Seems he had it way easier than I did. His take on it: "I guess I'm just not as full of sh*t as you think I am." Ai-yi-yi!
I don't know if it will be there when you look, but as I write this, there is a "Breaking News" bar at the bottom of the page that says 25% either don't start of don't finish hormone therapy. I'm in that 25% now. I did three years of the Tamox., but got taken off when I got my non-B/C Dx. Have not posed the question to doc whether he would want me to go back on it at some future point, but I am feeling like my Tamox. days are over for good. I was premenopausal when I went on it. Now I am menopausal, and I don't have a lot of body fat, so whatever estrogen I am still making has got to be a lot less than before, right? I am feeling like after I complete my chemo, I want my liver to take a nice long vacation and not have to deal with any nasty chemicals unless there is a proven need for them.
On the chemo front: My sensitivity to cold and the jaw spasms S/E's lasted a full week, but lessening each day. Now, after just one chemo round, I feel good. Good enough to have been on my bike a couple times over the weekend. If only the chemo didn't build up on a person, as I know it will, then this wouldn't be too bad at all. I only had a day and a half where I felt flu-like and had bad enough stomach irritation that I didn't want a regular meal.
Here's a mini-poll: When doing chemo, how many of you felt like mashed potatoes were just about the yummiest thing on the planet?
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Eli, my thing while on chemo was pancakes and crepes. Mashed potatoes would work too.
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Dianarose- Congrats in so many ways; for having a lovely, expanding family that feeds you, for being so talented, entreprenurial and brave in setting up your own business and for feeling good enough to move on from cancer and make your goals your reality.
Now PLEASE, stop posting pics of yummy food! Eli jumped on the bandwagon with her pic at the top and we all get excited at the mere mention of tasty treats. But I try not to partake, and bakery goods are among the hardest to ignore.
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Link for the recipe for the Hawiian bread. You can join just a pinch recipe club and they send you recipes every day. It's great.
Heartnsoul- I did wear the compression sleeves and gauntlets when I flew. I haven't had any trouble with LE so far and prefer to try to avoid it at all costs.
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staynsane, Here in the virtual world, we partake of many, many things that our real life consciences would frown upon. In fact, we all know that our virtual food fests (as devilishly delicious as they look) are always nutritious, low in calories, hormone-free, homegrown, vitamin packed, organic, gluten-free, unprocessed miracles of saintly scrumptiousness. Just say yes to the virtual treat!
This thread is like the "Mystery Spot" of eating. No worries. Here, the food pyramind is a trapezoid of treats...
Spiced Carrot Muffin is a moist, inverted trapezoid laced with carrot strands that comes topped with pistachio streusel. Mmmm!
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Happy Earth Day!
In counter balance to our heavily treat-laced thread, allow me to present the 2013 update to the "Dirty Dozen" & "Clean Fifteen."
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I read through and saved the dirty 10/clean 15. Depressing. Our grocery is doing good if it has organic salad mix and maybe carrots. Forget things like strawberries or grapes.
Hand over that carrot muffin!!!
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Eli, I had very few food problems on chemo. I had a fondness for chicken caesar salad though! I stopped taking any nausea meds after my 2nd chemo. I did the pre-meds but nothing after. I was very tired and lethargic on day 3 after each one, and taxol was not good to my bones and muscles, but thankfully that did stop very soon after my last taxol treatment. I hope to never go through it again, but I was fortunate that my side effects were tolerable and temporary. I wish you the very same.
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Sometimes I just cry about my cancer. That doesn't make me weak. It just gives me a wet, salty face for a short time, you know?
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LOL mashed potatoes or potatoes of any kind .....ICKY ICKY ICKY ! But I can put away some pasta !
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Elimar...I cry too...This entire thing just ticks me off to no end. How dare this BC interfere with my life. I guess thats better than crawling in the bed and having a pity party!
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Sometunes (quite often, really,) I am truly confused by the conflicting information out there regarding this disease and its treatment. (No, I don't mean Wiki-info. either...I mean results of studies published in JCO.)
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I guess they do not know all the answers....such a complex disease, we have to be vigilant, and do the best we can regarding diet, exercise etc!!!!i still have tearfull days, but not so often. We all have each other here, i dont know how i would of coped without the support of lovely ladies here. hugs to all . kaza xx
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Tears are put inside us so that we can cleanse our souls at a moments notice and provide us with emotional release. Some days I cry for me, wishing I could wake up from this nightmare. Some days I cry for those around me that are having a rough time with treatment, or facing a tough decision or just having a bad day.
Cancer seems to enhance a multitude of feelings. Recently I have been experiencing a lot of guilt for various reasons. I came across this article today that really brought some things home for me. Some great advice from the article is to "put yourself in a friends shoes" for none of it is our fault! I hope that someone else gets out of this what I did. It will help me to be less harsh on myself and enjoy things just that tiny bit more. (hope the link works)
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Sometimes all I can do is laugh, appropriately or not, and move forward, because I'm not dead yet.
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Welcome, kaza!
Barsco, thanks for sharing the article about guilt (one of the many feelings that goes with cancer.)
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