Between the Devil ( the red one) and the deep blue sea
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The cake looks beautiful, Marybe. And, YuMMy !!
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Marybe, I gained 3 pounds just looking at that cake!
If the reason the podiatrist doesn't want you to polish your nails is so that he can see them, then why not just polish them & remove the polish for the appointments?
I'm big into "camouflage the SEs".
Leah
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...any crumbs left?????
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Red velvet cake!! My favorite...I got a sugar high just looking at the photo...yummmm! Enjoy every morsel.
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YUMMY, Marybe.
Have a piece for me .......and anyone else who is interested! Have fun!
Lane
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Marybe, I think you're good - red is for heart. And you put plenty of love in it
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I have not posted on here for awhile for two reasons.....one, I have not really had any changes or updates to add. Two, I was unable to find the topic even though it is a thread I started and had in my favorites. I have been having a terrible time finding anything since they changed the format and also my favorites even though they were showing up on the line and had a big fat red number after them, I was unable to access. So thank you for posting on here Reesie.....it kept me from scrolling for hours as I had been doing until I got a stiff neck and sore finger. Mostly I have just been reading, but don't see my normal threads very often in active topics. Not a change for the better IMHO.
I saw the doctor who did my cataract surgery Thurs night and he agrees that is is OK to just allow my eyelashes to grow since they actually bother me more after we pluck them because when they grow in it is a sharp little point, rather than a soft lash. I told him what the eye surgeon said when I saw him and how he had asked me How long do you think you are going to live? and he couldn't believe it. Asked me if he really asked that and I said, he most certainly did and that I really didn't know how to answer him. Said he was lucky it was me and not some sensitive patient or I just might have burst into tears. Some people have no business being in the healthy field. I realize you can't get involved with every patient, but jeeze can't you have just a little bit of empathy? Whatever. I am actually happy not to have the surgery since I get a blood clot every time I go off the warfarin even if we use lovenox or arixtra. My eyes drive me nuts in the mornings so I just have to make myself not rub them because that was how I ended up scratching the cornea. He gave me some eye drops to try for moisture as he said my eyes are starting to get dry and that is a SE from Adriamycin. I really like the cataract surgeon...he takes his time and looks up my medications and seems to know quite a bit about different treatments. When I told him I was doing Adriamycin, he asked Aren't you only allowed to get a certain # of those? Him, I will bake and take cookies to....the other one, No Way.
I have not lost any more fingernails other than my Rt thumb and painted the others so they look better and it is stupid, but I feel better about them since they really look pretty normal. I told my onco I am feeling numbness in my toes, but he says it is not from Adriamycin and most likely from previous chemos. I am not sure if I buy that theory. My hair is actually growing back a little and the only time I wear my bandannas are when I am working because I don't want to shock the patients who don't know I have cancer. Walking around with no hair is actually rather liberating. After my little episode with sun poisoning, I am being careful not to spend to much time in the sun which is not too difficult since I have not felt like working in the yard lately.
I am not feeling like doing much of anything to tell you the truth. I need to clean, I need to be making arrangements and getting the food together for my Dad's 90th birthday party, I need to be looking for my bottle of Nexium which just seems to have disappeared and I just don't feel like doing anything. I came home yesterday afternoon and went to bed. Then I woke up and watched some tv shows I had missed on demand and read my book. I woke up this morning and thought of all the things I have to do and it was just so overwhelming that I stayed in bed for another hour. This is not normal for me and I do not like it at all. Maybe I am depressed and don't know it. I will say this, finding out that Kathy Rich had passed away last month did depress me. She was my hero as I know she was to many. I mainly stayed on certain threads so didn't even see the post that she had passed away and found out by accident when scrolling the other day ( one good thing about the new format, I suppose).
I will not be on the threads much since I am not finding them user friendly. I will however come on here just to let you all know that I am still alive. Next week we will be doing the CA 27.29 again and I will hopefully be posting that the numbers are continuing to go down.
Sorry this was not a very upbeat post. I am going to spend part of today making sauerkraut balls since those are something I can freeze. Normally, I love cooking, but today it just sounds like a chore. Thanks for letting me gripe.....
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Anytime Marybe.Perhaps you can call it venting and you won't feel guilty about it.
Sauerkraut balls? Not something I have ever heard of before.
I am wondering if you wore contact lenses if they would protect your eyes from your lashes? I don't wear contacts myself so I am uninformed. I just don't like it that yoou have to deal with this. I have alergies and itchy eyes just don't let me think about anything else.
I hope your day goes well. Hugs Ginger
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Marybe, I've missed you and have been worrying. I hope you realize how much so many of us love you. We really do care.
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Marybe there is nothing wrong with not feeling like doing something. You need to rest, my goodness you are still working! We are so glad to hear from you! You are our hero!
(((hugs Marybe)))
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Hey Marybe, thanks for the update. I keep this thread in my Favorites and you in my prayers.
((hugs))
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Marybe, HAH! I found you again!
Girl, are you crazy for feeling lazy or what? You're still working for heavens sake!
Ive been "retired" since 2/2011. Rest all the time. Only do absolutely necessary housekeeping or what I feel like doing.
Love,
Kathy
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Marybe - I too "lost" you but with all the new scrolling we have to do I found you! Sorry you've been feeling down but honestly you're still working and on adrimyacin puleeze go easy on yourself. I must say when I was on adrimyacin (I am sure I'm spelling it wrong) I discovered "Real Housewives of (name one I watched them all) - that should tell you about feeling tired and unable to do much - also my onc suggested using clear nailpolish on my finger and toenails - I used it too late on my toenails and I am still battling with one (after almost four years) - my fingernails did hurt and lift a little but survived and are now finally healing.
Your cake looked delicious and I am sure whatever you can do for your Dad's 90th will be just as wonderful - keeping you in my thoughts and sending you a hug.
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Glad to find you again. Geez, I hate this new format. Trying to find one's way around it is depressing in itself!!!
Are Sauerkraut balls like little Reuben sandwiches?
Hire a cleaning service and a caterer if you don't feel like cleaning and cooking. The birthday should be a fun day for you, not a hassle. Be good to yourself!
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Marybe... If your fingers don't go from blistered to calloused to Charlie-horsed like mine from doing all of this scrolling and can make those sauerkraut balls... Please share the recipe with us! Sounds delicious!
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Hope you're feeling better, Marybe!
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Thank you, ladies...to those of you who were looking for me and found me and for all of your encouraging words and telling me to feel better. I DO feel better today, much better. I made my sauerkraut balls and I also mixed up a batch of cookie dough since I promised a friend I would do cookies for her niece's shower next weekend. They are these little lemon poppy seed cookies and I can make the cookie part as well as the filling ahead of time so all I will have to do next week, is put them together (they are little sandwich cookies) and then decorate the top with a little flower. There is a tv in the kitchen so I watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and some cooking shows as I worked.
I worked on sauerkraut balls most of the day and what a mess. Had it like an assembly line..bowl with flour, one with egg wash, one with crumbs and then into the electric skillet. As I was making them, I was thinking what a PIA, but they are really good and everyone seems to love them so it will be worth it. I ended up with 186 and that is going to have to be enough because I am not making any more. I honestly have no idea how many people will be at my Dad's party, but hate to run out of food. There were 50+ at the Xmas open house I did at his place. This one is far lesss organized however and I really only invited my friends since they all know him, a few of his neighbors and told him to ask anyone he wants there. Problem is he keeps asking me what day it is going to be.....his actual birthday is the 30th, but that is a Wed. so I am doing this on a Sat. and he finds that confusing. He's 90...what can I say. His brother and two of my cousins are coming from MO. My sister is coming, but she got the date screwed up and she and her boyfriend are not arriving until Monday so we will celebrate his birthday with them on his actual birthday with a nice dinner. This other party is going to be a German buffet.
I am afraid to go back a page for fear of losing this, but will comment on a few things I remember. No, sauerkraut balls are not like little Rubens although I have made those before and they are very good. VR, I am not having the eye surgery and actually can see OK...it's only when the lashes are coming in that they stab me and then I do have a problem seeing because tears are streaming down my face and it's usually one eye and I will close the offending eye because it feels better and that can be hazardous when driving. That one jerk eye surgeon decided it would not be worth my while to have the surgery since we don't know how long I am going to live........but it's actually ok with me since I did not relish have a section of my eyelid removed and the talk of taking tissue from my mouth and using that as a graft was not exactly appealing. So I can live with the eyelashes. Ginger, I have contact lens implants....can you wear contacts with those? I have found that sometimes things we think we just can't stand are tolerable later.....like my nails....thought that was the worst thing in the world when I did abraxane and they came off and this time it's not such a big deal. Although, I will say I am a bit concerned with my one big nailess toe which is gooey and inflamed and I am afraid may be infected...I am going to have the podiatrist take a look at it on Monday. So far as reading goes, I have been reading and will go back to the book-thread if it is in active topics and I can find it.....I just finished reading a book by David Sedaris that my friend brought me last weekend. He is a scream. He reminds me of Augusten Burroughs, but less dark and not quite as raw.
Let's see, what else was said on the other page....Oh, a caterer. I would never do that.....unless maybe I was on my last legs. I am cheap and also I have never liked paying someone to do something I feel I can do myself....like hanging wallpaper and things like that. I did actually have someone come and weed for me this year, but Spring got such a head start on us that I felt like I needed to do that since it was looking like a jungle in my back yard. But cooking....oh, I love to do it and doing those things yesterday made me feel good. I know I can't keep it up forever, but will as long as I am able. Cleaning that is another story....I HATE to clean.....that I will pay someone to do, but some of it, I need to do.....I have to know where I have crammed things so I can find them later. LOL. Lots of junk to stuff away both here and at my Dad's.
OK, here is the recipe for the sauerkraut balls. They can be frozen after they are cooked and heated up in the oven which is what I am doing. I freeze them in a large pan and then once they they frozen, can throw them in a bag. One recipe makes about 30 balls....I did the recipe X 6.
8 oz pkg. sausage crumbled 1/4 cup onion finely chopped 1 14 oz can sauerkraut, well drained and chopped
2 Tbsp dry bread crumbs 1 3oz. pkg cream cheese 2 Tbsp chopped parsley 1 tsp.dry mustard 1/8tsp pepper
1/4 tsp garlic salt
1/4 c flour 2 eggs beaten 1/4 c milk 3/4 c. dry bread crumbs Oil for deep frying
Cook sausage and onion, Drain. Add kraut and 2 Tbsp crumbs. Combine cr.cheese, parsley, mustard, garlic salt and pepper. Mix with kraut mixture. Chill and shape into 3/4 in balls. Roll in flour...then roll balls in milk and egg mixture until coated and then roll in bread crumbs. Then you fry until they are a light brown. Place on paper towels to remove excess grease. Your kitchen will smell like these for days, but it's a good smell.
Serve these with a mustard sauce or curry dip....honey mustard salad dressing will work.
Let me know if any of you make these....they are very good. I do not remember when I last saw a 3 oz pkg of cream cheese or an 8 oz pkg of sausage which is why I always make at least a double batch and just cut off 1/4 of the cream cheese from the 8oz pkg. As I said, they do freeze well. Remeber those things called Hanky Pankies they used to serve all the time....Cheeze whiz, and sausage on little rye bread?...those freeze really well also.
It's now raining so it seems like a good day for cleaning up my mess from yesterday, doing laundry or maybe there is a good movie out....am not sure if I want to see Dark Shadows are not, just can't see Johnny Depp as Barnabus.
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Happy Mother's Day everyone!
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Happy Mothers Day to all mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and mentors (that should include all of us one way or the other
).Copying down the SBalls for when I'm feeling very ambitious!
Marybe, if you can't find Book Lovers I'll bump it for you.
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Hope things are looking up, Marybe, and that you're having a nice Sunday.
Lane
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Thanks Lane, I am having a nice Sunday and hope you are also. Here's a pic of the finished sauerkraut balls that go with the recipe I posted a page back. IF I can post pics I guess the new forum works for me. But can someone tell me how after I post I can go back to where I was. When I click on the arrow to go back it takes me to the log in page and then I get that message about maintenance.
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Marybe... Is what you have in your eyes blepharitis? I used to get it and it was awful. I wish I could tell you what to do to make it better, but I don't have any ideas. Mine was caused by wearing contact lenses. Since I stopped wearing them, I haven't had a problem. Whatever it is you have.. I feel your pain because when I had it... I wanted to pull every lash out of my eye lids! I hope you are feeling better soon! Now back to the sauerkraut balls. I was wondering recently where the small cream cheese packages went. I was thinking that everyone wants everything bigger nowadays so there probably was little or no demand for the small containers. Meanwhile, I was curious about the recipe and saw several different ones. I was interested in the baked version. Have you tasted that version? There was also one that included stuffing mix. That sounded good too. Just wondering is I could bake them.
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Marybe, if you want to go to my favorites just scroll to the bottom of the page. In the black bar across the bottom click on My Favorites.
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I have never made them any way other than the recipe I posted...although my neighbor does make them and I can ask her how she does hers.....one thing I know about hers, they are BIG...I think she probably does that to save time because the whole process gets to be old after awhile. I am not sure if they would brown if you simply bake them. Even if I bake chicken or porkchops, I always brown them in a skillet lst.
Chabba, I will try it. a few mins later...edited to add, Chabba, BINGO!!
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Marybe - Good!
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Marybe - hoping that you continue to feel a bit better with every day and that those feelings of guilt for "being lazy" fade away. Sometimes the best thing is to turn your back on the "to do list" and just relax and take time for yourself. It is not selfish or lazy, it is necessary.
The sauerkraut balls sound wonderful. My DH makes his own sauerkraut and I think I will try this recipe. Yours look scrumptous. Hope mine will turn out just as good.
Sounds like your Dads b-day will be a great time. 90 yrs is a great accomplishment. I am sure that he will be pleased just to be able to celebrate with family and friends. Enjoy!
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Marybe!!!! I made sauerkraut balls today! I made the baked ones that called for stuffing mix. I don't know if anyone in Ohio makes them like that, but they are insane! The most delicious meatballs! The sauerkraut makes them moist! I also refrigerated a batch of sauerkraut balls using cream cheese that I will coat and bake tomorrow. I have company on Friday. Hope there will be a few left by then to serve my guests! Thanks for the recipe!!
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What time are you eating? Set an extra plate for me!
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MaryBe,
The sauerkraut balls look and sound great. I love sauerkraut, however, it doesn't like me! I envy you your love of cooking and entertaining. Most of my parties are catered by Sam's Club! I've been tired and lazy this week. Had my gemzar last Wednesday and it hit me hard. Next treatment is tomorrow but at least I get neulasta on Thursday so hopefully the energy levels will bounce back soon. I don't see how you can work and do everything else you do.
Welcome to all the new ladies. I'm still trying to figure out how to find threads that I used to frequent. I am so resistant to change! Hope all the Moms had a great Mother's Day.0 -
I am pooped from staying up last night shredding the pork tenderloin I cooked for my Dad's upcoming party. Was getting terrible hand cramps which could possibly be because they called me from the onco's to say my potassium level was too low so they were calling in a RX which I picked up today. I am going to go to bed and get up later to watch Grey's Anatomy and finish up some cookies I am making for a friend's shower. As much as I love cooking, I am going to be happy when I have nothing more to do in the kitchen for awhile.
Now for my good news. The onco nurse called this afternoon after I had called and left a message asking about my CA 27.29 and the liver function tests that I had done on Wed. Liver function is still fine and my tumor markers are now down to 885.2 !!!!!!! That is a big drop especially considering the fact he told me the last time that I should not expect dramatic drops every time, but it seems they are still doing it. So I am happy, happy....tired, but happy and off to take a nice little nap. I was really afraid they would have gone up, but once again was pleasantly surprised.
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