My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
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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.💪🏼
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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.
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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.
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Mara yes, watch some Youtube vids. You need to start with some store yogurt that has live culture. I use Oikos brand. They will tell you you can't make yogurt with flavoured yogurt. Pffft. That's nonsense. I wouldn't use stuff that has hunks of blueberry floating in it or fruit on the bottom. But I use a single serving cup of vanilla Oikos to start 4 cups of whole milk = tall container of yogurt. If you strain it to make it thick you will lose some of the volume to whey. You can keep the whey to bake with, add to smoothies, feed it to your chickens or pigs or dump it. But straining makes the yogurt thicker. Sometimes the yogurt turns out nicely thick. Other times more runny and gloopy. I think this is related to how old the starter yogurt is. If all the little yogurt cooties are still alive or starting to keel over from old age. Also has to do with temperature. It's all about the science! And one last tidbit before I sign off on my yogurt lecture, my secret weapon is …. a tea light candle! Unscented, obviously. I heat the milk, cool the milk to correct temp, stir in my gently warmed store yogurt then set the whole pot in the oven and also set in, beside (not under!) a lit tea light candle. This provides about 4 hours of gentle, warming heat. I make the yogurt at 7 or 8 at night and when I check the oven 7 or 8 next morning - it's good to go! Unless it's not. Cause sometimes it just doesn't work. But the little tea light set on a small plate so it doesn't fall through the oven rack, was the game changer for me.
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@runor I will keep it all in mind. When I am running low on yogurt but have lots of sour cream, I add the yogurt and sour cream together, bit of water and mio, blend up in magic bullet. Making yogurt sounds lioke fun.
My schedule is later, yesterday fell asleep til 4 am from about 9pm on couch, videos played in the back ground, got up and took myself to bed, slept another almost 7 hours in between using the washroom twice. I add all the sleep together so it really is quite a bit. Will get stuff done. Part of the problem was streaming the 1984 Firestarter and that pushed stuff later as well. It is a bit cheesy but sticks close to the book overall and George C Scott. Drew Barrymore did a good job as well.
As far as meals, debating what kind of beans to make up. Those can be done later, need a quick one plate breakfast since sink stuff is still stacked up, want some energy. I think I will have a quick burrito, bean and beef variety from Walmart, put a bit of sour cream and queso. Once eaten can clear the sink, clean it out and prepare for other meals, need to brown up a tube of ground beef. Later need to heat up some ground beef.
EDIT cleared out the sink from the soak last night but decided to use fewer dishes, grabbed a beef and tomato macaroni pack, put a ton of cheese, will add queso and sour cream and some taco and sour cream and onion seasoning. Will eat up last two slices of garlic bread. Might be a higher fat than protein content so this time will take two immodium to avoid problems. May do a yogurt smoothie later today that includes some yogurt, find a veggie without much taste like some peas or green beans. Put some sour cream and water and mio fruit punch flavour. Yummy. Could even put some chopped beans, chick peas or whatever and use that mix. I will post if it is good and if creative.
Hope everyone has good day, in pockets for all as well.
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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.
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Go Hawks!
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@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! 🌞
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@cookie54 Yes I do appreciate the ability to go out, in my case by bus or paratransit but will wait til snow is actually gone, it will start to have some melting soon as we will be above freezing. I will need to go out next week a couple of times, one day is Herceptin other day is an echo.
I did make a lunch that was not a great combo, it had a knorr fettucine alfredo to which I added crisped lentils, was not the best if I am honest. Not because anything burned or that, both individual flavours were not good, just not good together. I have some leftover, will find a way to disguise the taste. Might chop them up with some good chips and cheese and add queso to the mix. Smothers the taste in cheese. I am debating all that.
I do hope all are having a good day and am in everyone's pocket.
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