Fuck me im thick please make me feel better.

[sellotapechicken]

I decided to share a bottle of wine with my lovely husband this evening, he poured, I went to go and get another glass. I don’t know what to say! We both knew we go through wine fast in the house but we can make a bottle of wine last 2 days if we take it home from a restaurant.

Why did it never occur to me to check how much wine our wine glasses hold? He’s used 2 375ml bottles of wine for 2 glasses. BECAUSE THATS HOW MUCH OUR WINE GLASSES HOLD!! Im horrified!! I’m already dying of stage 4 cancer so it won’t do much harm to me but to him!!

This one glass of wine is an entire 375ml of wine and it’s been a really really bad day so I’ve already finished the glass. Fuck me!

WIBU to not check how much wine our wine glasses hold? He always pours the wine (he’s the aficionado) and he always pours it to that level. we’ve probably annihilated bottles of wine in 2 glasses!

Flipping Nora OP - what a series of posts!!
You sound great, deserve your wine and I wish you the very best outcome.

Would you like my GMC number? I’m not going to respond to someone who can’t use the correct the ‘You’re’

Goodness, OP, if you can't have a bathtub sized glass of wine after a day like you've had, when the everloving fuck CAN you?

You also sound kind of awesome. And if it helps, from a non-surgeon pov, I'd hope surgeons would be much more focussed on the insides than the comparatively boring outside bits, even if they know the owner of said bits ;)

That’s absolutely incredible! The Christie is absolutely amazing at treating pseudomixoma (appendix cancer). I’m so so glad your aunt is doing ok.

What would you like to know?

Enjoy your wine OP x

You’re not supposed to fill a wine glass to the brim!! The wine will be horribly warm, especially with those glasses (are you sure they’re wine glasses, they look more like water goblets?).

I think white and pink wine tastes much nicer in thin glasses with long stems. Red I’ll happily drink from a tumbler.

I have a genetic condition that means I have a 78% chance of pancreatic cancer, I also have stage 4 leiomyosarcoma and I work as a surgeon. Would you like me to give you my gmc number?

It's generally not advisable to in the UK, but such ops are incredibly niche and probably only done in I'd guess about 5 hospitals in the UK, which are often hours and hours apart, so sometimes for the unusual it happens, but in an ideal world its best avoided but in v rare cancers not always possible

I like your style @sellotapechicken . Bloody good luck to you.

English not my first language, thanks.

That is definitely an original experience!

I hope your surgery is a success and your recovery is smooth.
At least you know you will be in safe hands? Or does it make it worse when it’s your own occupation?

I agree about the wine bottles, it feels like they go in 2- 4 glasses depending on your glass size

Same here! Good luck @sellotapechicken xx

Are those Emma Bridgewater glasses? There is a slightly smaller size, but technically the huge ones are for water.

I would probably do the same as you under the circumstances. I really hope you enjoyed every mouthful. Best wishes

DH and i got wise to this years ago and got much smaller glasses at home. Look for ones advertised as wine tasting glasses.

Larger glasses were popularised by pubs and bars, they make you drink more. Lots of people also massively overfill a glass. You are supposed to only fill to the widest part, often well below half way down.

I had no idea the pancreas could be removed! I wonder why it can’t be whipped out when someone gets pancreatic cancer?

Pancreatic cancer usually presents very late, so it's spread. And you have to still be in pretty good nick to survive such major surgery.

FYI, just advising, This post is trending at the moment on MN and could be quite outing for you

Very best of luck with your treatment - it sounds like you will be in amazing hands and know who to ask for extra pillows etc! I will keep you in my thoughts and so hope all goes well. As for your colleagues seeing you naked, I would also be absolutely mortified BUT imagine if this was one of your colleagues - you wouldn't give a shit you would just be giving your everything to save their life. Much love to you Xxx

Enjoy your wine OP you deserve it.

And may I take the opportunity to say a massive thank you to you and all your colleagues who have saved lives (my life!!!) after bastard cancer took hold.

It is... if found before its spread elsewhere and the patient is fit enough. It's called a whipples procedure or pppd

It's so bad because it doesn't really cause many symptoms when it first starts, meaning by the time it is detected (because of the symptoms) its often spread too much over the rest of the body and becomes inoperable quickly. It also grows rapidly so the time from detection to death is often not long. That and to have your pancreas removed you have to be incredibly fit as it's massive surgery with a long recovery so not suitable for old/crumbly patients

But yeah you can "easily" live without it, with the aid of digestive supplements and insulin

Aww op I don’t think you can’t be in any better hands.
If ever anyone was to be in your horrible position this would be the best outcome . Having your work mates looking out for you and trying to make you better / or as best as can be .

Wish you all the best . And who cares . Enjoy your wine .

Sending you best wishes for the surgery and for a speedy recovery. I had ovarian cancer and had loads of organs removed and hi pec I had fantastic surgeons and I recovered well. It’s great that you know your surgical team.

Don’t worry about the wine - just enjoy it.