So...whats for dinner?

M0mmyof3

We had leftovers from last night seeing I came down with a cold

MinusTwo

Nance - happy anniversary.

Carole - I am certainly not an expert, maybe just overly cautious.

Mommy - so sorry about your cold.

Dinner will be a large salad. Or maybe since I need comfort food after reading a book that really knocked me for a loop - macaroni & butter. My son has challenged me to keep a food diary in light of my increasing LDL numbers. Well - WTH - there's not that much to record. HDL & Triglicericdes keep getting better with every 6 month blood draw. It's just those pesky LDL numbers.

eric95us

Your anniversary is today, auntie?

Happy Anniversary!!!

Lacey12

Happy Belated Anniversary, Nance! Glad you opted for take out rather than slog through making another meal, after opting not to go out to eat.

My DH actually pulled a meal together tonight since I was feeling really awful. I think I might be harboring germs I thought were chased by the Zpac I took almost a month ago, or have joined DH’s status of lingering viral symptoms. We had a gathering to attend this afternoon for a friend’s 70th birthday, and were supposed to attend a Lyceum talk by an investigative reporter we know, but I opted out since I was fading after the birthday event. When DH came home, I was bundled up on the family room couch, so he prepared us Alessi Chicken Noodle Soup, to go with some hummus and triangles of pita bread he’d cut, and we each had a small roast beef sandwich with Boursin and caramelized onions. It was all good, and I was so thankful not to have to make it!

So, Minus, I checked out the link you shared, and it sure revived some of my total panic about the many LE triggers I’d read about shortly after my BC treatment. I have obviously relaxed about many of them over the past eight years since I haven’t experienced any LE symptoms. And I certainly would not suggest to anyone else to do that if you are concerned about the risk.
However, I was still holding on to my “no needles or BP taking” in my right arm, and had obliviously ignored my rule for the first time last week, so was relieved to learn that I was not going to land in the LE clinic because I allowed an anesthesia line to be set in my right wrist.

Obviously we all need to be proactive with adherence to the ways we believe are best for our health. I just thought it interesting that for the first time at Dana Farber, there were signs stating that needle sticks and BP measurements are no longer connected to triggering LE. (My words) and the clinician I saw also brought that up, suggesting that the former recommendations were based on an “old wives tale”. So who knows. I will likely still try to adhere to my 8 year old rule stated above!

carolehalston

Someone else is cooking again tonight. We'll have an early dinner at Crabby Shack. When we go about 6 pm, it isn't crowded and/or noisy.

eric95us

Hopefully I'll be able to avoid "the crud". I'm driving the school bus morning route for the next three days and I also have field trips each of those days. I'm "keeping my fingers crossed".

Haven't decided what to eat tonight---still thinking about it, but, obviously, something will happen.

About half the time Sharon remembers to mention the LE issues and only about half of the time does anyone ask about it, so maybe 25% of the time, the "wrong" arm is used. She had 12 lymph nodes removed and so far (now 8 years), there have been no issues.

Wednesday will be our 31st wedding anniversary. :-) 19 more and we can put the pictures of our 50th anniversary next to the pictures of my parents' 50th and my grandparents' 50th (I just scanned the pictures of my grandparents' 50th anniversary celebration).

MinusTwo

Oh wow Eric - Happy Anniversary. I'll keep my fingers crossed for no contagion on your bus trips.

Lacey - so sorry you're still harboring diseases. Regarding LE - I certainly don't want to tell anyone else what to do. Like I said, I'm just OCD about it. However I may email the expert at Stanford Med Center and see if I can get a response.

Anybody have any good ideas for reducing LDL w/o statin drugs? I already exercise 4-5x a week, don't eat meat but once a month, do eat fish, don't eat fried foods except maybe once a month french fries, do eat lots of salads & veggies, added more beans & lentils, etc.

MinusTwo

Meals today were eclectic to say the least. A bowl of cottage cheese with canned,sliced peaches. Then later, a can of smoked oysters with 6 triscuits - served with 2 glasses of Paso Robles cab.

MinusTwo

Lacey: Here's the latest seminar from Dr. Stanley Rockson at Stanford - the Center for Lymphatic & Venous Disorders. It's an hour & 30 minutes - but I thought really worth it - even the questions at the end. I'll put a summary in another post. But YES - we are at risk. I'd love to see a picture of the sign on the wall at Dana Farber.

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-clinics/center-lymphatic-venous-disorders.html/presentation-mode/stanford-health-care-now/health-library-videos/rockson-lymphedema-treatments

MinusTwo

OK - this is kind of long, but shorter than watching the seminar/lecture.

5/30/18 talk at Stanford - Center for lymphatic & venous disorders
Diagnosis, treatment & research
Dr. Stanley Rockson is a guru -Only half doz other docs in the US. You may have seen him on NPR

Still true - 1/2 the docs in North America have between 15-30 minutes of their entire medical training.
Fascinating new research since the last seminar online in 2012. But scary what as he tells what most docs will say if you go to them with problems.
Most important to PRESERVE working lymph movement which will PREVENT progression
ANY injury to the skin - cut, burn, insect bite, rose thorn, small scratch. ANYTHING that traumatizes the skin and needs a wound healing response can bring on LE. Including pressure changes in an airline. And he talks about locations over 5000 ft.

10 million people in the US have LE. 90 million world wide
With breast cancer - chances 15-20% of developing LE
90% of the problems develop in the first year but risk never goes away.
So after 2 years, you probably have 2% for the rest of your life. How much you want to work on preservation & prevention depends on how much a gambler you are???
If you get past that 1st year, statistics show you may not be prone to be pushed over the edge to progression.
But if you're in the 1% - do you want to take that chance???

With only 1-4 nodes (like SNB) you have only 1/4 of the risk - but you can get LE with only ONE node out
You have to determine what you are willing to risk.
Yes are finite risks with surgery on parts at risk - even if LE is dormant or sub-clinical. Weigh the benefits. Even carpal tunnel surgery

New bio-impedance surveillance - if treat REALLY early, can reverse the problem
Coming - Biobridge implant at time of breast surgery

MinusTwo

And finally, here's the link to the lymphatic network. Select 'resource downloads' on the right for TONS of facts.

Edited to add - check out the Booklet from Mass General. This is from page 7

Tell healthcare workers you have lymphedema. If possible, avoid having your blood pressure and
blood drawn or IVs on your arm with lymphedema. Sometimes,other health concerns are more urgent than avoiding these procedures on your affected limb.

https://lymphaticnetwork.org/

carolehalston

Thanks for the info, Minus.

Dinner tonight may be stuffed peppers from the freezer with a salad and another side.

auntienance

Thanks for the good info Minus!

Lacey, I'm sorry you are still under the weather. Please talk to your doc if you haven't already done so. Even with the pneumonia shots, these things are nothing to mess around with.

Eric, congrats on your anniversary tomorrow.

I had no idea about dinner but Carole's stuffed peppers sound good, so thanks for the idea Carole.

Today I think I'll stay busy cleaning the house instead of worrying about the corona virus as I've been doing all week.

carolehalston

The sides with the stuffed peppers last night were good. The veggie was steamed broccoli flavored with a little butter and fresh lemon juice, s & p. DH, who is not a broccoli fan, had a second helping, emptying the pot. The salad was not our usual. A base of romaine, sliced red pear, blue cheese and roasted walnut pieces.

I've alerted DH that we're having salmon tonight, definitely not his favorite. I have a recipe for baked salmon with a dill sauce on top. I forget whether the base of the sauce is sour cream or yogurt. The veggie side will probably be asparagus and the salad may be the usual tossed salad with romaine and additions.

My shopping basket yesterday was full of vegetables. My unhealthy diet lately has brought on the predictable weight gain and bloating.

Today I'm off to the gym for some cardio before Silver Sneakers class. Yesterday my exercise came from a learning session of Pickle Ball. It was fun. I hope DH will go with me next Tuesday.

nonomimi5

Carole - Good for you for cooking healthy food. Tonight’s menu sounds fabulous. There’s no rule to what you put in the cream sauce. You can use both - 1/2 sour cream, 1/2 yogurt. Some recipes mix mayonnaise in it. It’s to your liking.

I made a giant vegetable broth from all my scrap vegetables and stems from beets, chard, kale, celery, garlic, herb stems, carrots in a big slow cooker. With the broth, I made Ministrone soup with chopped veggies in a small slow cooker (I have 1 big and 2 small!). And steamed red rice. I’ll eat this all day long until dinner.

For dinner, I am making Tumeric infused chicken, onion and celery soup with the same broth. I don’t eat a lot of meat but since I have to cook for my DH and DD, I’ll kill 2 birds with one stone with this broth

auntienance

I’m with your dh Carole, salmon is not one of my faves either. Unless it’s smoked. That changes everything

It’s another nice day here so I’ll probably grill a piece of pork tenderloin - maybe jerked. Sides will be unexciting. I regret not picking up some of the new asparagus at the store.

auntienance

Where's Sandy? Is she traveling?

Happy anniversary Eric ♥️

MinusTwo

welcome Mimi. Looking forward to having you at the table.

Reader425

i was thinking the same thing Auntie, where's Sandy? Her food descriptions make me drool. Or make me want to go out to dinner.

Carole I love how you warned your husband about Salmon! I warned mine about peas tonight in a cassarole but it was unecessary. It was a macaroni, ham, pea and cheese scallop. Cheese makes everything better. It was actually somewhat healthified- a recipe from an old Joanna Lund cookbook.

Last night was a nice dinner out of a single lump crabcake, sweet potato and grilled corn.

Happy anniversary Eric!

MinusTwo

Spent way too long at the med center today so dinner was two glasses of lovely red wine & an omelette with chopped broccoli and Monterey jack cheese.

carolehalston

The salmon last night was very good. The dill sauce recipe is half a cup of Greek yogurt, 2 T Dijon mustard, fresh dill and fresh parsley. I used dry dill and didn't have parsley. Spoon this sauce on the salmon fillets and bake in a 450 degree oven to an inner temp of 125 degrees.

Tonight's main may be a casserole with cabbage, sliced potato, carrots, canned tomatoes and ground beef.

I have been missing Sandy, too. Hope she's ok.

M0mmyof3

Chicken tenders with bbq sauce, stuffing and applesauce

ChiSandy

I'm not traveling, folks--quite the opposite, trying to get my HiltonHonors points (I'd used all 800K of them on a room at an Embassy Suites) refunded to my account due to the cancellation of my Bar Assn. CLE trip to San Diego at the end of the month. (Law firms have imposed travel bans and the city of San Diego has declared a state of emergency). Southwest will not refund my airfare to my credit card--only apply the funds to future flights. IMHO, that sucks big-time--since we didn't cancel the trip voluntarily. And our early May trip to NYC is--you should excuse the expression--"up in the air." We've yet to book our flights for that, and the timeshare stay can probably be reversed and put back into that account as well. I took the CTA Red Line train home from the dentist a couple of days ago, and I wasn't afraid.

I've also been active elsewhere online, doing taxes, dealing with home repairs and tech snafus, going to various appts. (doctors, dentist, hair, nails, car, etc.), and out to eat.

Belated happy anniversary to Nancy, Eric & Sharon.

This was my first pačzki-free/no-king-cake Mardi Gras in years (due to my diet), but I didn't mind. And it's also a relief not to have to go hunting for my favorite raised-yeast-dough hamantaschen for the upcoming Purim holiday. But I would rather keep fitting into a Chico's size 1.

OK, here comes some food-porn. On "Lundi Gras" (not a "thing," but there were competing Mardi Gras celebrations around town), Cellars held a NOLA-themed wine dinner, pairing the courses with French wines (and a bourbon-based cocktail with dessert). Appetizer was egg Sardou, substituting an artichoke-hearts pancake for an actual artichoke bottom. Fish course (the best of the night, IMHO) was crab-stuffed pan-seared trout fillet with a side of ratatouille. Next came gumbo ya-ya with shrimp, chicken and andouille sausage (I was able to "eat around" the rice, but there was no avoiding the roux. And I did have half of the small piece of scallion cornbread). Main course was blackened sous-vide boneless ribeye (the sous-viding came first) with roasted potato wedges--I skipped the spuds, which I no longer miss these days. (Still miss semolina pasta, artisanal bread and donuts, though). And the one thing I did finish was dessert: bread pudding with bourbon sauce. It was a small slice, not the humongous portion they serve at brunch. Speaking of brunch, we go on Sundays and I get the quiche du jour--I just don't eat the crust.

nonomimi5

Chisandy - That is one amazing food - porn!

I thought about cancelling My spring break college tour to New England and NY with my DD but I know she would be disappointed so I ordered disposable gloves and ski mask to cover my face on the flight so I don’t touch it during the Red Eye.

Dinner tonight - Whole wheat pasta with parsley/basil pesto; ratatouille; asparagus with chopped shallot/caper mayo. Balsamic glazed grilled chicken for DH (I don’t eat meat) I need to cut down on my carbs but I stopped eating my favorite white rice and I feel so hungry. I hope my stomach shrinks, soon.

MinusTwo

mimi - take some sanitizing wipes and wipe down the seat, arms, tray tables, etc. And the rental car if you're getting one. I have a hard time remembering not to touch my face so a ski mask sounds brilliant, but I wonder if you'll be allowed to wear it? I dug out my old white cotton gloves that ladies used to wear everywhere. I actually bought a few pair a couple of years ago so I could keep lotion on my hands & so I wouldn't scratch my back. It snaps me 'awake' when I feel the cotton coming close to my face.

nonomimi5

Yes. I am taking a lot of disinfectant wipes in plastic bags. I bought disposable gloves b/c I heard the virus is contagious for weeks so if I touch it with my gloves it will stay on the glove. As soon as I get to the hotel, I am planning to wash everything we wear. I was thinking of renting a car but also taking trains and buses, but now I may just rent a car for the whole trip so I avoid crowds. It will be a lot of driving! They are not actually ski masks - they are neck gaiters. I am always touching my face so I think this will help...while I am sleeping on the red eye at least.

MinusTwo

Mimi - they look just like the "Buffs" that I used when I lost my hair. And I still use them for just the purpose your describing - and to keep my neck & nose warm. They come in wool & cotton & blends. I always tie one to my purse when I'm going to a play or concert - and yes for the airplanes. If you rent a car, can your daughter take turns driving?

The latest I heard it that the virus MAYBE can last on some surfaces for 10-14 days. Not sure you need to wash everything you're wearing and anyway, you'll have to do the same disinfecting in the hotel rooms. Don't forget the TV remote and the flush lever on the toilet. But still - I probably wouldn't cancel the trip.

nonomimi5

Thanks MinusTwo - will do. I get really stressed out when my daughter drives...so maybe not

eric95us

Doorknobs/handles and elevator buttons.....

carolehalston

Our hot dish last night was tasty. I put it all together in a large oven proof skillet and cooked it in the oven.

Tonight's plan is for chicken breast fillets, maybe breaded and cooked in the air fryer, cauliflower mash, and romaine salad. DH never seems to tire of our repetitious salad.

The Lundi Gras meal sounds delicious, Sandy. At one time Lundi Gras was a quiet day during Mardi Gras, but now parades roll that day, too. I'm glad the king cakes aren't stacked on tables in all the supermarkets, now that MG is over. Now it's heavenly hash and gold brick dark chocolate eggs produced by Elmer's candy company. DH brought home large boxes of both. At least the chocolate eggs have diminished in size to almost half their original size.

Today is a lovely day starting off cold in the 40's and warming up to 60's. Low humidity. I will venture out into the pollen saturated air to play golf with oldie friends. Main draw is the companionship since my golf has deteriorated. I may have mentioned that I went to a pickle ball introductory class on Tuesday and enjoyed the experience.