So...whats for dinner?
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I'm a green sauce person, dh likes the red so I always have both on hand. Love New Mexico where I can get both - "Christmas." I have a pork butt thawing that may have to turn into verde. Or maybe I'll make it red and put it in tamales.
But tonight is freezer diving -- spaghetti and meatballs and pasta from a box. I'm so lazy.
Minus I would love to find a marble rye bagel.
Sandy, love the avatar.
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Tonight was leftovers...the Jasmine rice and chicken dish. Tomorrow I'm going to make the "hamburger soup"/ Special's Mulligan Stew.
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Tonight was orzo salad done Greek style, although no kalamata olives for DH - he thinks they look like beetles, lol! Accompanied by chicken salad melts on onion rolls.
eric - give me a report after you try it!
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Leftover sweet potato fries & green beans, plus a fresh pan-seared grass-fed strip steak. Dessert was a poppyseed yeast Hamantaschen and decaf. (I'd bought 7 a couple of days ago and managed to get only 1-1/2. Bought 6 more today). Purim started tonight.
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Hi everybody! I have been out of BCO, have been depressed lately which I suspect is one of the Tamoxifen's SEs, have an appointment with my doctors to discuss the SEs. I thought I have been doing better mentally after but then it started, it washes over me several times a day, what is going to happen? how long do I have? You know, this ... stuff I do not know what I have done to deserve having this sort of anxiety at my age driving my 11-year-old to her figure skating practice. I am all about how everybody forgot about me, that life is unfair and on top of that I want a divorce! This is not me at all! Not that I do not wanting a divorce once in awhile when I feel that I cannot reach to my DH, not so dear at that point though, but this time nothing has actually happened, he did not wanted to go power-walking with me and I have been holding a grudge for three weeks .. It must be Tamoxifen. End of rant! My cat was the most fair, thoughtful and devoted being around me during my worst days) cudos to her.
auntinance, I googled Texas ruby red grapefruits, they are very intence in color, you are right. I did not have any grapefrui since last May or June, they told me it could interfere with taxanes so I avoided it.
ChiSandy, great avatar, I am trying to figure out whom you remind me on this one, but some movie character.
SpecialK, I googled Mulligan stew, on Wikipedia it says: "Mulligan" is a stand-in term for any Irishman, and mulligan stew is simply an Irish stew that includes meat, potatoes, vegetables, and whatever else can be begged, scavenged, found or stolen." Stolen))) LOL
carolehalston, I am so glad I found these boards and I enjoy this thread very much. I assume I neither owe anything to the people who chose to forgot about me when I got diagnosed.
I realized that I was not able to eat all my veggie soups leftovers and froze them in this week. I am towards the end of my rads, only have this and the next week left and I crave meat, so I bought jamon serrano, Schwarzwälder schinken and salmon along with organic ground beef this week. I myself prefer jam on meanwhile DD1 loves schwarzwälder schinken on her Swedish wheat flat bread that reminds of English muffins but not exactly, so today we were discussing the advantages of jamon vs schwarzwälder schinken for each other). Yesterday the dinner was salmon with sun-dried tomato pesto with boiled potatoes and green salad with diced cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, spring onions and avocado. Another half of salmon side will be gravlax by Saturday.Today I also used my KitchenAid for the first time to do pie dough for a minced meat pie. My DD2 is so fond of pies and baking so she helped me before her figure skating class and my rads appointment and we had a great time in the kitchen, just two of us, she was grating the cheeses, aged Swedish Herrgård and some mild organic Gouda, and sauteing the onions. The pie dough was done in like two minutes but she found it so exciting and we were standing there watching the machine working. So silly, so precious. They do not have any school this week, everybody is going skiing but we are staying at home, I have to be at the clinic every day for my rads. The pie turned out really good and I had a portion too. Even though I am trying to lose this weight and it is not going down at the pace I want it to I cannot stay without the carbs and meat for too long, otherwise I would end up buying and eating an entire baguette just by myself. I am also getting tired a lot and need a nap in the middle of the day but I attribute it to rads.
Speaking of baguettes, we are going to Paris in a month, for DD2 first competition abroad, nothing in particular, still for juniors but she will be representing her local club and she is very proud to do it. I just keep hoping that my skin will hold up without any complications from rads, I cannot stay at home since I will be taking DD2 home because DH will fly to his business trip directly from Paris. So eclairs and mille-feuilles here I come, my favorite ones are with chocolate custard.
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Cherry, for what it's worth, I went through a bout of depression after I finished treatment. Quite unlike me. I took an AI so can't speak to your drug, but I don't think my situation is all that uncommon. My primary doc wasn't surprised anyway and offered me several options. I chose to gut it out (not necessarily the wisest choice). As I got stronger and felt better, so did the depression. I would let your doc know what's thing on with you.
Went to see dad today. He's fine but at 91, kind of fading. Looking forward to warmer weather so we can go outside with him, something he really enjoys.
No cooking tonight. Dinner at a local steakhouse (that has fantastic fried chicken) to celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary. Although the 38th is supposed to be tourmaline, it ought to be fried chicken.
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Happy Anniversary Nance.
Cherry - My experience was that RADS cause major fatigue. It took me several months to feel like myself again. And i agree with what Nance say about depression. Don't suffer in silence - talk to your docs. I too found the depression lifted gradually as I felt more normal.
Breakfast was 1/2 a tuna sandwich on pumpernickel with a side of English Cucumber slivers. I had to be at City Hall much of the day for a petition protest to stop a guy from building apartments on a vacant lot across the street (no zoning for Houston...) Looks like we won but by the time the bus I'd arranged for the neighborhood got back, I was too tired to eat. Dinner was first of all two gin & tonics, then 10 left over cold boiled shrimp and 3 pieces of lemon pound cake loaf.
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Cherry, Paris? Oooh--I love Paris! Been there at least 8 times and never get tired of it. About the depression--it is very, very normal. Part of it might be the Tamoxifen's effect on your endorphin levels (though AIs' estrogen-suppression more often can mess with brain chemistry, Tamoxifen only keeps estrogen from accessing your ER+ tumor cells' estrogen receptors. Maybe other cells besides breast cancer tumors have estrogen receptors)? This sounds like a question for our resident science whiz (bio-physiological chemistry) Barred Owl. But situations can make one despondent, even with normal brain chemistry. (It's not true depression, but it sure feels like it). Ask your oncologist to recommend an antidepressant that isn't contraindicated with chemo and Tamoxifen--or for a referral to a psychiatrist who has experience treating and counseling cancer patients. "Oncopsychiatry" is a relatively new specialty here in the U.S., but often Europe is way ahead of us on many innovations. I've been able to continue on bupropoion, which I've taken for years--but it conflicts with Tamoxifen
Rads don't always cause fatigue. Especially short-protocol targeted (as opposed to 33-treatment whole breast) radiation. I had the 16-treatment hypofractionated (double-strength) 3-D guided partial breast radiation, targeted just to the "tumor bed," and did not have any fatigue. In fact, I played several gigs afterward. (Wished I'd known that--I wouldn't have dropped out of the Bar Show cast that year). I had very few side effects, and they were mild. Some slight reddening and temporary enlargement of the mammary seroma (for a few months, my breasts were almost the same size, albeit differently shaped); one episode of "cording" and "subclinical lymphedema," aka "Stage 0," which has since disappeared. Car commercials always say in the small print at the bottom of the screen "Your mileage may vary," "YMMV" in netspeak. Everyone's experience is different.
Went to the dentist today for my cleaning, and he is so pleased that I am back on a 6-month, rather than 3-month, schedule. He had to move out of my neighborhood when the building his office was in (for 40 years, and just blocks from me) was sold and the new owners want to demolish it and build (ugh) condos. It was Chicago's last remaining "shopping arcade" (two levels of offices & shops surrounding a central atrium with a lovely leaded-glass skylight), which was the precursor of the modern indoor mall. Attempts to get it landmark status on the National Register of Historic Places failed. (Paradoxically, know what does have such landmark status? The giant winking anthropormorphic hot dogs, Florrie & Morrie, at the Superdawg drive-up car-hop hot dog joint. Go figure). So he moved downtown on to Michigan Ave., on the eastern edge of the Loop, across from Millennium Park. If you want to see photos of the view of Millennium Park from the office window, check out the "How About Drinking" thread. I took a Lyft down (it was only $16--a taxi would have been $25 plus tip) and the CTA (Purple & Red lines, $2.50) back. When Bob goes there, it's on the way to work, so he drives...and pays $37 to park...three blocks away.
Anyway, on the walk home from the train station, I bumped into Bob, who had finished work early and was headed to Revival Social Club for happy hour. It was not quite 5 pm, but we decided a light early dinner would be perfect. He's strictly observing Lent (gave up meat, potatoes, hard alcohol at home, and sweets), so we shared some small meatless, spud-free appetizer plates: shrimp quesadillas, creamy polenta with mushroom ragout, arugula & poached duck egg, and roasted Brussels sprouts (hold the bacon). It was plenty--in fact, we had leftover sprouts! Now he's admitting he's sick of fish, so he's going to the next level: vegetarian. Oy.
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Cherry, Sharon (wife) was pretty tired when she was going through rads. However, she didn't get a break as she started a full time teaching job right after she finished the treatments. Making it even worse on her was me being gone for 3 weeks for Hurricane Sandy, so she had to do it all while I was gone.
The hamburger soup...Sharon and I liked it and it was even better after I added a tiny bit of cayenne pepper to the soup. If Sharon liked cornbread, I would have served it with cornbread.
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Last night was shrimp and pasta and broccoli dish. The pasta was bow tie. I tossed the broccoli (cut small) in with the pasta the last few minutes. Sauteed the shrimp in olive oil and butter, added lemon zest and lemon juice. Combined shrimp mixture and pasta and broccoli and added grated romano. The shrimp were large and delicious.
Side was a large romaine salad with avocado, blue cheese, Greek olives and mini cucumber slices.
I weighed the uncooked pasta to end up with reasonable portions. 2 oz for me. 3 oz for dh. Still a small dish of leftover pasta. No leftover shrimp!
Thinking that tonight will be steak.
Cherry, hang in there. Things will get better.
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Carole, I love that pasta/broccoli combination. Shrimp just makes it that much better.
I cooked a small pork butt via sous vide yesterday (24 hours.) Today I need to decide what to do with it. I'm thinking tamales. I will sous vide a chicken breast today for mine. DH can have the pork. Side will probably just be a finely shredded slaw with a squeeze of lime and sprinkle of salt.
Dinner last night was not quite up to standard for either the steak or the chicken. Don't know what's up with that. Hope they didn't get a new cook. Regardless, I brought home a large chicken thigh which I will have for lunch.
For our east coast friends, hunker down and stay safe! On a hopeful spring note, the ruby throated hummingbirds have arrived in the states.
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Thank you all for your kind words, I really, really hope it will get better, but apparently not today. After two appointments at my clinic at two different occasions, had to drive back and forth, I have been laying down unable to sleep and unable to get up. I planned to work today but only answered a few mails from my phone. My plantar fascitis is killing my left foot and all I am thinking about is how to get up to walk those 40 min on this thread-mill. I have not been that tired for weeks. No cooking, the fridge is fool of leftovers, where is the DD's BF when we need him? I am so tired today.
My councelor/psychiatrist appointment was productive. I did cried a river, they both listened patiently telling me I look like I lost some weight but since my bathroom scale is not showing any improvement I attribute it to a dark cloth I was wearing. The psychiatrist told me we have to change my meds, I got Escitalopram instead of Mirthazapine, she says it will help to control my appetite too. I like my psychiatrist, she really means business. I have been worrying about how I will have to go back to work the next month and she said, no way, maybe towards August you can go back 100%, until that possibly 50% in June, let's start with that. I told her that doctor X told me some people can start working after ten days, and she asked: ten days after what? Never mind, I guess you talked to a surgeon, they believe people can be fixed like machines, but they cannot, so we are talking months here. And they will be sending me to a rehab spa facility later this spring too.
ChiSandy, I love Paris too, also been there many times, even took my parents there years ago. Last time was in May 2016 and we rented a wonderful appartment in Jewish Quarter in Marais, this time we will be staying in Ternes, near a famous street market so I have great expectations. It will also make transportation easier to the ice-rink that is situated in one of the banlieues. DD2 has program to The Animals' The House of Rising Sun and she practices every day, sometimes even twice a day. I have ordered new jogging shoes and I hope to go for a run in Bois de Bologne some mornings.
I wonder if I after all will get up and bake this recipe of sweet corn bread I found online, I have all the ingredients. After all, cooking has always been my refuge and outlet for my feelings.
And I was thinking about that Mulligan stew too. I used to be very much meat and potatoes when I was young, this is the way I was brought up and it is a sort of normal food to me. I had a recipe of an Irish stew in mind, saw a recipe a long time ago, that I never made. Lamb is cooked in a stew with some veggies and two different sorts of potato, the one that falls apart during cooking and creates this mashy texture, and the other that remains firm. I also want to make colcannon some time.
And almost forgot! My psychiatrist, she is from cancer rehab at the clinic that treats me, she said today that up to 2,5 bottles of wine a week is ok for a woman to drink. I told her that I red about three glasses but she said, well, nobody wants you to become an alcoholic but if you drink more than three glasses it is ok. Have I mentioned she is great? Unfortunately today I am not able to get out of bed.
Here is a picture of the pie I made yesterday.
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2.5 bottles of wine? Normal 750ml bottles, or those little ones you get served on airplanes? Would love to know! My surgeon said 3 5-oz. glasses a week, my MO two, the surgeon's NP said "moderation in all things," my shrink said that someday they'll conclude that for ER+ tumors no amount is safe, and my PCP (who is from Sonoma County and loves Pinot Noir) says a glass a day for heart health. When I reminded him of my ER+ bc, he said "better to have a 2-or-3-oz. glass every day than 3 5-oz. glasses a week" (especially if all three glasses are consumed on the same day). I mentioned this on the "How About Drinking" thread: I have a Coravin system, which lets me enjoy 1-3 oz. without even opening the bottle--so I can feel free to try the best stuff in our cellar or see how well one bottle from a case seems to be maturing. It's not cheap (and neither are the argon capsules), but it's cheaper than having to waste half a bottle or more and healthier than feeling compelled to drink it all before it goes sour.
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Wine - My MO said 2 glasses a day. Granted I am not hormone positive, but still...
Dinner was a large salad - most of it Kale. Also had zucchini, red cabbage, black olives, cauliflower, radishes, carrots, etc to mask the taste. No matter how hard I've tried, I do NOT like Kale. I love Brussels Sprouts & broccoli & spinach & etc - but I find Kale annoying, not pleasant to eat & I don't like the feel of it in my mouth. So this was my last try. Write that one off.
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The stricter limit for ER+ patients is because it is thought that alcohol might inhibit the liver's ability to remove circulating estrogen from the bloodstream and send it to the kidneys to be excreted. Of course, the liver also produces aromatase, which enables androgens to be converted to estrogens, so perhaps alcohol might also impair the liver's ability to secrete aromatase (and AIs such as letrozole or anastrazole inhibit the activity of whatever aromatase the liver does secrete), so who knows?
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just popping in to say that I hope this last storm treated you well. Sounds like the east coast got hammered! It was supposed to hit the midwest, but slipped down and up the coast. Hoping all is well with you!
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2,5 regular 750 ml bottles, that was what she said and frankly I reacted myself and I will not be consuming that much at all. I will stick to my 3 glasses a week but I want to have them all at once otherwise I do not get any kick. Everything you say about liver totally make sense and I do not want to jeopardize anything.
Minus, I am with you, a package of organic already washed curly kale is in my fridge and the last three salads I made I did not use any kale in those. Just like you, do not like the texture and it does not have any taste to me at all. I was thinking of making this package to kale chips tomorrow. Btw, I found out that in US you even call cavolo nero kale and I like the latter very much, maybe because it tastes like cabbage. Curly kale on the other hand is like chewing fabrics.
Both brunch and dinner for me was gravlax with ciabatta. I knew it, all this dieting, no bread, no carbs, and then at some point I just cave and eat myself full on bread. DH bought small freshly baked ciabattas this morning and they are now gone, I ate two, they tasted divine. I am sure the scale will show +2 kg tomorrow. But tearing a bit from ciabatta then putting a slice of gravlax on it, then smearing a special sweet mustard based sauce with a slice of lemon. It was so good! For the family it was fence for yourself day since I have been tired beyond my understanding and spent the entire day in bed. DH caught a flu so he is caughting and sneezing. DD1 is chez BF. Tomorrow I want to make an attempts to go power-walk 10 km now, when my new jogging shoes have arrived, but I am not sure about how I will feel.
And I baked cornbread yesterday, for the first time, a sweet one, found recipe online. It is good, I had a slice, half of it is already gone so I assume everybody else liked it too. I also made a Russian beet root salad. Boiled beet roots chopped or grated with chopped dried prunes, chopped walnuts, minced garlic and mayo. I also added some ancho for this smoked taste. We like it a lot, I like everything with garlic actually. Grated gouda with minced garlic and mayo will make such a great spread, you can also add chopped hard boiled egg. Egg salad, this is probably what I will eat for breakfest tomorrow.
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Hope our eastern friends check in as soon as they can.
Grilled ham steaks, applesauce from the freezer, potato pancakes for dinner. I might add some broccoli for color.
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as long as it isnt chicken breast 😃
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Minus - about kale - what you said.
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Moon - glad to see you & know you're OK. I thought I saw vicious storm in WI & major power outages. I agree with Nance. We're thinking of everyone in the storm's path..
Dinner will be New England Clam Chowder from Fresh Foods Market. I pulled 1/2 a loaf of Boudin San Francisco sour dough bread from the freezer so I won't need anything else.
Cherry - I agree about the bread. I'm going to eat the entire 1/2 loaf myself in the next couple of days. Here come the lbs or kgs.
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Nance, could you share your potato pancakes recipe? DH loves potato pancakes. I made one attempt to cook them and it was semi-successful. Cherry, you probably have a recipe, too.
Tonight will be oven "fried" corn meal breaded catfish fillets and cauliflower mash and salad. Maybe a cabbage slaw.
Cherry, I wish I could do something to relieve your misery. You will move on to a "new normal" in due time. I promise. The shock and other reactions to a cancer diagnosis do wear off.
I can't imagine that my body is enjoying any estrogen despite the alcohol I consume. My skin has aged in protest of estrogen deprivation and formed lines and wrinkles. If I hadn't been dx'ed with bc, I would still be taking HRT and feeling years younger than my actual age which will turn over another year next Thursday. 75!!!!! You wouldn't believe how many residents I see in the nursing home who are my age and younger. In wheelchairs and on oxygen and wearing diapers under their clothing.
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Carole this is my favorite recipe:
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/killer-potato-latkes
This is not the one I'm using tonight however because I didn't plan well enough. Tonight I'll just throw some shredded potatoes in with some salt and pepper, grated onion, adding a bit of flour and egg to hold them together.
They won't be as good but we'll eat them just the same lol.
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Carole - I put green onion in them and they were pretty good.
Kind of worried about Lacey - I'm guessing they don't have power. .
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Hi all, it's been a while but I'm back to cooking more often. Tonight was some pan fried balsamic pork chops with corn on the cob and faux fried oven baked zucchini bites. Should have taken a pic but I'm out of practice, oh well, next time.
Hope everyone has been doing well and enjoying dinner
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I, too, hope everyone "back east" is doing OK. I won't bother to talk about the weather here in the Phoenix, AZ area..... :-)
Hi to Linda19152. Welcome.
Tonight was leftovers and tomorrow we may go out for dinner...it's our 29th anniversary!!!!! I was watching our wedding video and it got me smiling. I had a full head of dark hair. We had a wedding mass, so we sat for a lot of the stuff. The chair Sharon was sitting in was high enough up that when she was sitting she could swing her feet, which she did the entire time we were sitting. :
On Monday I'll be back to cooking.
DD, now 20 years old, is going to Rocky Point, Mexico this Tuesday through Friday for college spring break. She is going with three other girls from school and they are staying in a house owned by the parents of one of the girls. I said I wanted a strong, capable and independent daughter. I'd rather she make me a tiny bit nervous than her being too afraid to venture out there. Besides, GF and I would go there for a week (or more) long campout on the beach and we survived just fine.
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Hi all,
You were right, Nance. We lost power...but fortunately just for 24hours. Our house got really cold quickly and honestly I ended up staying under covers until the heat returned late today. Many people we know in other towns have not had power restored...so I feel very fortunate. To be on topic, last night we ate by enforced candlelight...cheese/crackers and hummus... washed down with a bottle of red wine. I knew that would help us get to sleep, and it did. This was the first time we were off grid in many years, so it was humbling to think about others who deal with this not infrequently, and lord, the Puerto Ricans and USVI folks! And how restored is Houston by now, Minus?
Tonight since we had restored power we decided to celebrate with a real dinner. Went shopping and bought some Irish grass fed beef filets and DH grilled them while I made brussells sprouts and a salad. Some french bread rounded out our little celebratory feast. While filets tend to be liver like in texture, I dislike gristle, so I enjoyed mine a lot.
These two weeks I have been going through my cataract surgeries, so this would not have been a choice week to have no light to administer my many eye drops, but it has been getting done with the aid of a flaslight. At the moment one of my eyes seems off kilter, rendering my general vision less than fully functional, which has me worried. Hopefully it will calm down, heal, and restore good vision at least for distance.
Cherry, I recall experiencing fatigue by the end of my 33 rads sessions, (but I was able to work through that rx). However, the Tamoxifen was my nemesis, stealing my ability to sleep, and giving rise to tons of new and old allergies and psoriasis, and ultimately leading to my decision to retire from a job I loved since I was so constantly exhausted. Nothing really changed for me after that, even with a trial of a sleep meds. When I started to feel my memory decline, I became panicked since my mom had had Alzheimer’s, and I decided to end my relationship with T. My MO was not thrilled, but she is pragmatic and kind, and after pitching AIs a bit, (despite having originally avoiding them due to my significant hand arthritis) went along with my decision. I’m sure she would not have agreed to this if I did not have the lowest oncotype score ever seen at the Center. But yes, I am taking a risk for purpose of my current quality of life. I am much older than you, however. I am encouraged to learn that you have a wonderful sounding psych team at your disposal. They should be a significant support as you deal with the twists and turns of your treatment.
Re:sharing info re Dx, I was dxd a week before my school reconvened and I felt that I needed to share my situation with the entire teaching staff, but be clear that I could not otherwise make my condition public (once I knew I would not be having chemo, losing hair, etc) since I was the only clinician on staff and had several kids on my caseload who had either lost a parent to cancer, or were dealing with that at that time. I still cannot believe I addressed the whole staff about this and begged them to keep it confidential, AND THEY DID! I was pretty amazed at that, and thankful.
My school people were quite kind to me through the year and I think they probably appreciated my taking just a total of two, then two more days off the entire year for my two surgeries.
It was very helpful (especially appreciated by DH) that many neighbors who we’d told brought meals since I was tired at night after working eight hours and then heading to daily rads.
Our lake neighbors were a wonderful support. They were actually the first to know. I suspect I was a bit like Carole trying this new info out on everyone there when Imfirst heard about it, and I wrote them group email summaries of my experiences and level of well being through the year, which they appreciated. I think that was also helpful to some of the women there who were later diagnosed similarly.
I think this is such an individual experience for everyone who goes through dx and rx, as we each handle it in our own most comfortable way, at that specific time in our lives. And yes, there will be surprises/disappointments about how people react and how that matches with our expectations/hopes/needs. But as you have learned, we roll with it, and I certainly feel better equipped to support a friend or neighbor who I learn has been diagnosed with cancer. It becomes quite “talkable”.
Carole, as you described the aging face (and other body parts!) factor, I am reminded of Sandy’s comment that her cataract repair allowed her to better see lines in her face. Well, I have now experienced that in spades! So humbling! And I kind of miss my sepia toned vision, now that I see this bright blue white world! My eye doc told me he has a 90year old patient who refuses to have cataract surgery since she loves her sepia vision. Ha! She obviously does not have to drive at night!
It is the middle of the night and I must retire...after staying under xovers most of the chilly day.
I have some food pix I will share another time...they have yet to make it into my ipad photo folder.
I hope all of you have escaped any of the weather related problems plaguing the various states.
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Lacey - glad you are OK and were able to treat the 24 hours as "an adventure".
Cherry - yup... I worked in the yard for 6 hours yesterday so my only meal was one bowl of clam chowder and 3 pieces of french bread. No sweets, no snacks, no nuts, etc. And sure enough - up 2 pounds this morning. Bread is still my favorite. How come i can eat candy or cake w/no immediate weight change & bread jumps right in there?
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Lacey - glad you are ok and that you got your power back sooner rather than later. DS and DDIL have suffered through power outages of 7 days or more in both winter and summer and it is no fun for sure. For some reason their little corner of the power grid is always the last to be restored in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
Although I'm actually in the mood to cook something, DH decided he wanted carryout pizza for dinner. In my little town, that means Pizza Hut. I will have carryout Chinese from the joint next door to Pizza Hut -- Kung Pao something and some dumplings most likely. Although I like their Kung Pao, it's never spicy enough in spite of my telling them to make it HOT. They just don't believe me. I will have to spice it up when I get it home.
We'll enjoy our takeout while watching the Oscars. For the first time, we haven't seen a single one of the nominated pictures.
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Eric - I too have camped on Puerto Penasco beach many times when I was a young woman. For some reason, we worry that our kids don't have as much sense as we did lol! I'm guessing your daughter has lots of good sense.
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