So...whats for dinner?

Thanks susan, I will look for it!

Red, I know you'll be glad to get rid of the cast.  Take it easy!

Lacey, hope you get some reassurance soon.  We all jump to the most dire conclusions out of fear. 

You won't believe how hot it is...already.  And this is early April. 

Well, today is the day. My PET scan to see how those little tumors are doing. As preps go, PET scan prep is pretty simple, just not to my taste. Dinner last night was meat with butter. Breakfast, which must be eaten before 5am was two eggs with a few slices of leftover meat. Coffee with no cream. Hardest part is convincing my stomach, which doesn't care much for food first thing, to keep those eggs where they belong. Except, that a plate of meat as a meal just feels so wrong. I was only able to eat about 2ox before I became totally, and completely, bored. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of a PET scan, when I arrive I am weighed [though they just let me tell them the number these days] and they inject radioactive waste into my veins. You hang in a quiet room for an hour. My hospital allows you to read, some don't. Then I am strapped to a board and pushed into the tube for about 35 minutes. I find none of this traumatic. To be honest, my biggest problem is that I keep falling asleep in the tube and wake myself when my breathing gets funny. I never sleep on my back.

Results won't be available to me before I have an appointment with my oncologist on Thursday.

*susan*

p.s. Mombie, congrats on the end of your rads! I found radiation to be very difficult and threw confetti after that 8th boost.

Hugs for Susan and Redheaded. 

I haven't been in a cast (fingers crossed) but limbs never look natural when the cast is removed. 

MZ, great news that you've finished rads.  Hope you get your energy back quickly.  It's wonderful that your family take care of you.

Happy Good Friday. 

Suzanne, we are phasing out rv travel.  We found a spot in northern MN where we like to go for the summer.  Near Park Rapids.  This year we plan to go there again and leave the rv.  It will become a summer "cottage."  We bought our first camper, a tagalong, in the 80's and have pretty much travelled the US and much of Canada.  Our current camper is 38 ft. with 3 slides.  It makes a comfortable little house when set up. 

red- your arm will eventually look normal - I had a cast for 12 weeks on my leg and thought it would never match the other leg afterward, it took some time but it did. The look was compounded by some seriously long leg hair, lol! Try not to worry!  Sorry your arm in painful, but hopefully PT will help, along with the brace.

susan - I have had a few PET - my procedure sounds exactly like yours, as well as the diet prep - which makes sense for the procedure, but is weird nonetheless.  Sending hopeful vibes and support, we are here regardless, but I want good news for you. 

MZ - I have not used Coconut Aminos in marinade, mainly because we are currently without a grill, but have subbed it in things that call for soy sauce.  It works - but I have also used organic soy if I only need a splash.

Last night was broiled sirloins, green beans steamed and then tossed with diced bacon, red onion, garlic and a tomato paste kind of glaze.  I also made a pilaf - old family recipe from my MIL - but used gluten free pasta.  It took forever to cook and that pasta seems to give off more starch.  I also had to use more stock to get it to soften, but it was good.

MZ - I missed above that you are done with rads - yay for you! 

I'll put the ham in the oven to heat up.  It doesn't actually need cooking.  Some of you remember that my family like boiled smoked picnic hams but it would take a heck of a big pot to boil this baby.  Dh used to get one of these huge Smithfield hams for Christmas from the company who employed him and we heated them in the oven with the same prep I'll be using, cloves, glaze, pineapple and cherry decoration.  One of my sisters loves the glazed pineapple slices.  The hams are never dry.

There will be a wonderful bone for cooking beans or potato soup. 

This morning I made buckwheat pancakes (Hodgson Mill mix) with walnuts.  Love them.  I  pour sugar free syrup on mine and it tastes good, like a light maple.  I made a big batch and froze the extras. 

Dinner tonight will be fried fish dinner at a benefit dinner for an old friend who is battling cancer.  The dinner is at a community center out in the country where I grew up and knew this boy and his whole family.  His local cancer dr. told him he was terminal.  He went to MD Anderson for a 2nd opinion and they apparently gave him hope for survival.

I hate cancer.  My friend Mary whom I met on an rv trip in Prince Edward Island some years ago just died of peritoneal cancer.  She was a bc survivor and the new cancer was ovarian not bc.  What a great person she was, upbeat all the way.  But she had a Ph D in computer science  and was analytical as well as emotional.  She told me her odds were against her as soon as she was dx'ed. 

Happy Friday and Happy Good Friday to those of us who are Christians. 

Haven't been on much. Only cooking was stir fry. Back to back days of doc appts but letting up a little bit.

Susan - wishing you good vibes for today.

Red - congrats on getting the cast off. Hope your ride showed up to take you to PT. Take your pain med to take the edge off. PT is rigorous but will be worth it. Did you doc encourage you not to wear the brace? Good question for PT. If no reason not to and it feels better I would prob do it at least for a while. But -- there might be a good reason not to.

Summer struck yesterday. 92 degrees. But cold front blew thru now 67. Looks like a beautiful weekend until Easter Sunday then rain which we still surely need.

Mommie - congrats on finishing rads. The drag of doing it got to me, the planning of getting there, but then I was still working. Onward you march - YAY!

Sorry if I missed anyone. Reading in BCO in big batches then forgetting what I've read.

(((Carole))) for the loss of your friend. Sounds like a truly lovely woman.

hamlet, hamster? I'm laughing. thanks for that hahaha Somehow I don't see much meat being on a hamster. Yay for DD and Captaincy.

I keep batches of waffles in the freezer like you do the pancakes. My kiddos love that.

Cooking ahead and freezing stuff is a favorite trick. I have a year's worth of chopped onions from my garden. I confess that I get tired of the chopping for that, but I'm always happy later. DH always grows enough garden to supply an army. I have to do something with all of it.

When we get sick of zucchini and run out of ways to use and get rid of it, we let the last of the crop grow to monstrous size. Then we carve out "Viking ships" and decorate them with veggie people. Then we have our annual Zucchini Boat Races. My DH is a living contradiction. He grows a huge garden that he doesn't like to eat. He hates eating veggies!! LOL The boat races are what he feels is the soul purpose is for zucchini being on the earth. hahaha

Hamlet it is then!  And where is the ham on a hamster anyway?  And why are they called hamsters?

auntie - oooh!  Deviled eggs - my fave - must have those too, so we will be twins on the menu front!  I decided to roder the waffle iron - I got it on sale at JC Penney and it was more expensive to buy it in the store than to order it from them online - so DH was disappointed since he is into immediate gratification.  I will surprise him with something waffled this weekend since it just arrived.  My hairdresser has a recipe for making waffles with oats you grind into flour - I need to get her recipe.

mombie - the zucchini people are a riot!

Yep, we have lots of fun together. I sometimes don't realize that until I'm sharing the pics and smiling over memories. I guess we are pretty lucky.

I loved reading those books. So funny. I hope I get to visit that Island some day. I'm not much for mussels, but I adore lobster. Sounds like July is NOT the time to visit though. I had a very silly dream about giant mosquitoes once. They flew into my bedroom and sucked fluff out of my mattress until they exploded in a flurry of white puff. I doubt the giant mosquitoes on the island are craving mattress fluff though.

MZ so glad you're done with rads Rest Rest Rest To get your strength back! I know you know this, but I think it really helps to do nothing.

Red, my right thumb was the thickness of my pinkie and stood straight up when my cast came off. It took massaging it for 1/2 hour then bending it and pain meds to even get it to bend on it's own in the morning, then only writing for max 1-hours a day until PT fixed it. It looks great now! It took about 3 months after cast came off... can't remember

Susan I am hoping that your scan turns out all right. Every time I've had to wait for a medical result that Tom Petty song goes through my head.. "The waiting is the hardest part" I am putting my thoughts out to you for the best result.

Here is what I want to make. My rib still hurts, although I went back to work Weds, I still take pain meds when I come home. Walk like the crooked man, or whatever that poem was.

http://www.loveandlemons.com/2014/04/11/spring-onion-fritatta/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=spring-onion-fritatta

bedo--I have done exactly that today: Nothing. Grateful that I can too. DH came home early and my mom and brother are taking the kids out to a movie for me. I'm glad your rib is mending, but I hope you didn't have to go back to work too soon. That fritata looks wonderful. I don't quite have the ingredients but I think I might ask DH to make me an omelet tonight.

Auntie, that's so sweet of you to cheer up your friend. I had to look up Cherry Jumble, sounds like comfort food for sure.

Carole--I'm glad people are talking about deviled eggs. That's a must at our Easter table and I almost forgot. My mother in law makes them with mayo--nothing else! Boring. What do you like in yours?

Minus Two--My DH would like eating eggs at your table better then. LOL I actually don't put pickle pieces in mine, only a hint of the juice. It's the mustard I add that he and his mom don't like.

Salmon sounds yummy. I'm glad you get to see your son. Mine comes home in four months. I can't wait to cook him all his favorites before he heads out to college.