My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer

This is what I watched and (basically) followed to make my bread. Eat fast, it does not keep very well or for very long. Or cut loaf in half and freeze half. 

Word on potato in bread. I have been adding instant mashed potato flakes to my bread. Potato binds with water differently than wheat. The claim is that it holds moisture in your bread for slightly longer, slightly extending shelf life. Slightly. Too much flakes and you get mushy bread. But so far I do like the taste and texture I am achieving. Still experimenting with quantities. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0t8ZAhb8lQ 

NOTE: lady in video says to preheat oven to 450. Is she out of her mind ?!  The fire department would have to attend if I did that!  No way do I follow her advice for temperature. I plop my loaf into whatever I'm cooking it in and stick it into a cold oven and set it to 350, like I bake everything at. 450. Pure lunacy! 

Illimae-I didn't recognize her as Jenny Jones. I guess life has its ups and downs but I thought it was a good video.

Runor-Thanks for posting it. The bread looks delicious!

runor - thanks. It looks so good & so easy, I've cross posted the link on the "what's for dinner" thread (giving you credit of course). Hope you don't mind.

Jenny Jones had a talk show in the late 80’s. I remember her well for 2 reasons. One was she had the same name as my BFF and second, her shoe basically ended after a guest revealed a crush to a friend live, both were men (more scandalous at the time) and after the show the crush murdered his admirer. Show staff had to testify at trial and a lot of blame was laid on the way the blindsided the crush, who was apparently enraged and embarrassed in front of millions. This was her then.

Mae- what a blast from the past! I remember Jenny Jones now. And Maury Povich, Montel Williams, sally jessy raphael. Geraldo. Hahaha.

Emac- yay for stable! Wishing you the best on your brain MRI.

Sunshine- what a pain, coffee and computers. Reminds me of the time I spilled it all over my work Surface keyboard, DH comes running with the shop vac and sucks up a key :-D. I learned eBay will sell you one replacement key for $7.

Emac~ stable. !!! 😘🎊😃 that’s wonderful news. Big hugs for you.

Hope all you ladies are well. Lol at Mae the news correspondent for the thread. I do remember Jenny Jones. Remember Tammy Faye and her husband the reverend? Time flys and so much happens. The mind forgets sometimes. It’s odd to bed. Hope sleep finds you all peacefully !

Hello from my hospital room. A ct done as a baseline for the trial I was supposed to start Friday showed a spine lesion at L1 that was pressing on my spine. It’s likely the cause of my hip and leg pain. Mri today gave better picture and new trialMO was alarmed enough to call me back to the hospital to be admitted. He’s concerned about the spine compression causing leg weakness or loss of function. I’ll either be starting radiation on Friday or getting set up for fusion surgery. So the trial is on hold. I just had a “clear” bone scan too, I guess it missed this big one on my spine somehow. The scan picture is pretty startling. Not sure how long I’ll be staying. It’s been a whirlwind of activity since I got here.

Rosie24, so sorry to hear, but I’m glad they caught it before something went very wrong. Please keep us posted.

Rosie - so glad the mri revealed the source of your pain. Fingers crossed that treatment will be radiation. Back surgery is no fun. Keep us updated.

Mara - that was the sweetest thing - sewing a pocket in Rosies's hospital gown 🥰🥰

Thanks for the support and kindness ladies! I just got a port Weds and boy is it nice to not have all the pokes. The nurses seem to like using it too.

Rosie~ I hope that you start to feel better so you can get out of there. Remember we are here thinking of you. Hugs sweet woman..

Rosie - I'm sure getting an urgent call back to the hospital was quite a shock - especially after having a clear bone scan! I hope it's a relief to know, finally, what's causing your pain and that there's a plan to treat it. Jumping in that special pocket Mara sewed for us.

Rosie, wow, I hope they get things fixed ASAP!

mara, you are such a busy beaver (as my mom would say). Sometimes I get tired just reading about all that you do!

Tanya, let me know how the plant based substitute goes. I am sure we have that here too.

Well, done two 15-20 minute walks, pacing my living room, very demanding after both meals. Should help digestion and just feel good. Seems manageable for now until I want to walk outside again. I still only go outside when I need to but as long as I am doing something at home, I am satisfied. I do keep an eye on the floor since I do have two cats walking around. My one cat was swiping at me as I neared his ottoman as I moved quickly. It was funny. Going to get rid of the chocolate milk that is only a couple days outdated but after yesterday, not trusting it. Could have also been not eating proper meals too. I have some newer stuff anyway.