So...whats for dinner?

carolehalston

SpecialK, I'm so sorry! Mac and cheese sounds comforting, for sure

ChiSandy

SpecialK, you earned that mac&cheese. Fingers crossed on the skin biopsies—my next mapping visit is a week from Thurs. and I think my derm is gonna be biopsying at least a couple of pearly pink nodules that are likely just seborrheic hyperplasias but look like they could be basal or even squamous. Then there’s a mole on my upper R arm (the LE arm) I hadn’t noticed till a few weeks ago. Heeere we go again….

Dinner will be leftover roast chicken and some veggie or another. Will save making that omelet until I get home from Silver Sneakers class.

Valstim52

Ok ladies and gent, i'm doing chicken enchiladas tomorrow. Tonight is stuffed peppers.

MinusTwo

Special - hope your arm is OK today. When will you get biopsy results?

I passed through my regular 6 month full body skin exam at my dermatologist's last week with no biopsies. Hooray. And she probably didn't freeze more than 25 places. One she's very suspicious of and watching. Hope the freezing works because it's on my cheek to the side of my nose but more to the center. It will be an awful place to try to biopsy - or for MOHS surgery.

Carole - thinking of you as you renew this testing.

SpecialK

susan - excellent and delish-looking pizza! I want some!

I am going to try making the enchiladas tonight - maybe DD will help and learn how to make them in the process. Thanks all for the good hand/arm wishes! My hand is not as swollen today - it had an egg sized blow up on the hand, which is down, but the bruising is starting from knuckles to wrist. I actually did the dishes a little while ago and it felt good under the warm water and to move the fingers. At the point that I finished though it did hurt so I sat and iced.

carole - the mac n cheese hit the spot!

chisandy - all of my biopsies have ended up being basal cell carcinomas, it has become routine at this point, but I appreciate the hopeful vote! I hope your visit for the skin check reveals nothing that requires treatment! What is so crazy to me is that after having the first skin cancer at 35, and spending the next 25 years staying out of the sun, I have at least two new skin cancers per year! I am the poster child for using sunscreen on your kids, I even dragged my two to the derm with me to make them watch one being frozen off - so they would know why I was slathering sunscreen on them! They are both fair-skinned and blue-eyed, but they learned nothing and I worry they will have to deal with this as well. Maybe they will inherit DH's ability to tolerate the sun and NEVER have a problem. He is fair-skinned and blue-eyed as well, but even growing up in Miami and being outside all the time, he has never had a skin cancer.

minus - the biopsy results usually take a couple of weeks, they said to call them if I have not heard from them by three weeks. They usually send a certified letter, which always intrigues my mail carrier, lol! It will be a MOHS since it is recurrent in this location, which worries me since that means a bigger incision in my LE arm. This is a lot of trauma in a short period, when coupled with the lymphoscintigraphy study done last week with four needles to that hand, and now the hand injury. Ugh! The good news is that scheduling the MOHS will probably not happen until June so the hand will be good by then, and it will have been some time since the scan. I did have a MOHS on my ear at the tragus, where it meets my cheek. First one on my face, but my derm is really good with a scalpel, he blended the incision into the natural fold. It is so good the nurse took a pic when the stitches came out because she was so impressed with his work! Mid-cheek is tough because there is nowhere to hide it. Ask your doc about using Imiquimod topical if the lesion is not too deep. I was part of the trial with NIH for skin cancer when I was treated at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda. It leaves a lightened area, but no scar.

ChiSandy

wow—I got my skin biopsy results (the mole and seborrheic hyperplasia that turned out benign) within two days.

susan_02143

Today was an early and long day at the hospital. Started with blood at 7:30AM and didn't get home until noon. Turns out, we had to reduce the Benadryl by half again. Not possible to drop completely. That, of course, meant that I crawled into bed when we got home and didn't get up until about 2PM. Had a small bowl of soup and a tiny bit of the focaccia. Mr. SMT ate lunch while I slept. He ate more than a tiny bit! I have now divided the bread, wrapped each one in saran wrap and they are freezing.

Like the last cycle, this infusion hit me hard. I had no energy to make dinner so we went to our local Mexican place. I decided not to get the soup and instead got some flautos [potato chicken and cheese], some beans and a small amount of guacamole. I managed to eat the flautos, he has gotten very chef-y with the presentation, but left more than half the beans and half the guacamole. Mr. SMT had no problem polishing off his carnitas burrito!

Lacey is back in Boston and cold after a week in balmy, okay warm, Florida. Just got a short message from her so nothing more to report.

ChiSandy

Take it easy, Susan and thank goodness you have some good restaurants to take the pressure off you on your chemo days.

The DOMS (delayed-onset muscle soreness) from last night’s training and this morning’s Silver Sneakers workout (deceptively difficult for a sedentary de-conditioned klutz) is starting to kick in despite warm showers last night and today (I don’t trust myself to take a muscle-soothing juniper oil tub bath, and the tub is sort of icky with soap scum anyway). Had a late breakfast of a 2-egg omelet (ramps, mushrooms, prosciutto & provolone), with a cappuccino. Had the leftover mac & cheese as a late lunch (truly comfort food—weird, because I never liked it as a kid). Will make stir-fry tonight with leftover chicken breast, snap peas and cauliflower “rice."

bedo

For those who remember me my daughter is being induced gently and is in "mild" labor 2 weeks early. I am coming home from an assignment in " no where" early and hope to share Susan's joy of a first grandchild soon. Charlie. Can't wait to see you Charlie, and see my beautiful daughter and son in law.

For dinner burritos with salsa, block cheese and canned vegetarian refried beans. I made a lot of them and will serve them with 2% Greek yogurt and avocados.

I have not been posting for a long time, but STILL think of all of you, and if I ever write a journal (that is not happening) you would all be part of it.

ChiSandy

Bedo, a mazel tov in advance. 2 weeks early isn’t bad—my son was supposed to be born on Thanksgiving but decided to enter the world three days before Halloween (I RSPVed for my friend’s party—broke water while standing in front of my closet debating whether to dress as a pregnant bride or a pregnant nun—from the labor room).

SpecialK

chisandy - yay for the benign results!

susan - sounds like you are hanging in there and refining how your infusions go, and how to handle the SEs.

bedo - yay to "see" you and for your first grandchild! So excited for you and your family!

auntienance

Bedo, what lovely news! Cheers!

MinusTwo

Yup - my skin cancers have all been basal cell so far too. I've had 6 or 7 MOHS surgeries starting before age 25, when I started staying out of the sun. So I guess damage from my younger years is going to keep showing it's ugly results. My derm PS is also excellent, but the scars on either side of my nose have become prominent as I age. Both were very deep basals with not much skin to pull over.

I had the leftover LemonGrass Stir Fry Chicken for late lunch. I added fresh sauteed carrots & celery and served w/leftover Seeds of Change brown rice w/quinoa. I thought I'd be hungry later but I've been too busy to think about it. So my evening snack was the last couple of the Rainforest crackers I got in Washington.

Tentatively planning white clam sauce over pasta tomorrow, but lots of salad stuff that needs to be used.

MinusTwo

Wow - how did I miss an entire page of posts? Sandy - glad for the B-9 results.

BEDO - Hooray. Of COURSE we remember you and have been missing you. I do hope now that you're leaving the wilds of Iowa you can join us at the kitchen table more often. (didn't they allow the internet in Iowa?) You are the one who eats eclectic meals like I do, so I'm particularly glad to see you back. Looking forward to hearing about the new baby.

Susan - I'm not sure why they won't eliminate the Benedryl. It hits me like it does you - out for the count. I know our protocols are different, but after infusion #1 when I didn't have an allergic reaction, the agreed to drop it and just watch really carefully the next time. I kept children's Benedryl in my backpack just in case. Glad to hear you're eating. Thanks for the Lacey update.

queenmomcat

Now I want chicken enchiladas! (cries, but only for a moment)

SpecialK: OW just OW. That's so something I'd do.

carolehalston

A pork tenderloin is thawing. It will be flavored with rosemary and garlic and roasted for dinner. Sides will be baked sweet potato and salad.

susan_02143

Well, there was a plan. The plan included lamb burgers, Greek lemon potatoes, and a green salad. But the lamb was having nothing to do with this plan. It laughed at me all afternoon and refused to thaw at the right moment. So, pulled a few meatballs from the freezer, doctored up some Rao's sauce, and made that salad. It was fine. The lettuce was a gorgeous and tight head of Boston lettuce with lots of crunch and not an iota of flavor. Man am I ready for local vegetables!

So, the lamb burgers will be tomorrow night's dinner, the timing of which is made more complicated by a check in of three young German men at around 6PM. Or not. Check in times are notorious, especially for people driving rental cars. These young men have requested extra breakfast items. They want lots of food! Since they have been so bloody polite and their communications have been clear and timely, I didn't push back. Each of these young men will have a croissant with jam, rye roll with cheese, and a fruit yogurt, plus fruit. Can you imagine eating that much for breakfast?

*susan*

p.s. Today is my seventh anniversary of finding those pesky tumors outside the breast. It is kind of a big deal actually. Seven years! I spent the day being grateful for seven years of good health, life, and still having a life worth living.

HappyHammer

Not much time- Special- healing mercies your way and hoping no LE flares!

Tonight I had a 4 oz grass fed beef steak burger with a salad of mixed greens, arugula, onion and homemade blue cheese.  Yum.

auntienance

Impromptu chicken pot pies tonight at DH's suggestion. Used puff pastry dough and bits of this and that from the fridge. They hit the spot on this rainy chilly night. Enough already! Bring on summer!

Well done Susan on seven years. May you have many more.

ChiSandy

After a swim (my first in nearly three years!) and my monthly bc support group session in Evanston, I drove back to my neighborhood to meet Bob for dinner at Cellars (we needed to pick up the wines I bought at last week’s tasting). Of course, the moment I walked in & sat down at the bar, Rachel the bartender placed my usual flute of cava in front of me. Tonight’s special was a salmon sausage hoagy with sriracha mayo, oak leaf lettuce and red onion, with roasted Brussels sprouts. It was delicious but way too much for me to eat—got only halfway through. I had my leftovers packed, but we got so wrapped up in watching the end of the Cubs game I forgot to take them with me. Dang.

Dinner tomorrow—another riff on leftover rotisserie chicken. Maybe faux cacciatore with shiratake linguini and broccoli rabe. Bob has to stay down in Oak Lawn overnight, but I have an 8:30 pm training session.

SpecialK

happy - thanks, so far so good!

susan - seven years is a very big deal! While I wish it was the type of anniversary you didn't have to think about I am so happy you are here, and hanging in - spending time with your sweet family and living your life!

MinusTwo

Susan - fantastic milestone. Celebrating with you.

PontiacPeggy

Eric, my late husband's step brother lives in Peoria and loves it. He's a retired trucker and Marine. I'm glad it's you with the snakes. Definitely not a fan. However, about a mile north of me there was a large black bear cub wandering around one of the subdivisions. We have moose around here as well as "normal" wildlife.

HUGS!

PontiacPeggy

Susan, that's a great milestone! So very happy for you! May you have 50 more good years!

HUGS!

carolehalston

Susan, celebrating with you, too.

Dinner tonight will be pasta, linguine from a package. Homemade marinara with turkey Italian sausage. I learned how easy it is to turn ground pork into Italian sausage the year we bought the half pig. Now I do the same with ground turkey. It tastes good. Honest Injun!!

Salad will be our usual with beautiful crisp romaine and little halved grape tomatoes. But I will omit avocado and blue cheese from mine tonight and Dh will add sweet onion and both his and my portion of blue cheese and avocado to his salad. My dressing will be a good vinegar.

M0mmyof3

Thinking something quick tonight. Tomorrow we are having Tacos for Cinco de Mayo

bedo

Welcome to the world Charlie! Thanks for all your wishes!

MinusTwo

Bedo - how precious. Glad you got to be there. Are you going to stay with your DD or look for a new place? Can't remember - are they in New England or NY? Do you have to go back to Iowa and pick up your stuff? And BTW - we need to hear about Iowa sometime. It just sort of swallowed you whole.

Very late lunch at PF Changs. Crispy Honey Chicken, egg drop soup, fried rice, spring roll, and a glass of lovely Grenacha from Spain. I went to Costco after eating so I managed not to buy a lot of things I might have picked up if I had been hungry.

auntienance

Welcome Charlie! ❤❤❤

CeliaC

Happy birthday to Charlie! He looks so happy and contented! Dinner (prepared by DH) was wild salmon w/lemon, herb & a bit of butter, roasted brussel sprouts, with a small glass of La Marca Proseco. Terrible rain & traffic this evening, so could not make it to my aromatherapy class.