Thread #6, living with incurable cancer, taking ALL the drugs, and remembering our fallen comrades

[SewingBees]

New thread!

I cook gammon in the air fryer :)

Oh god, does it end up like the pizza??? 🍕 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@sellotapechicken how does it turn out? I was going to bung it in the oven.

Hahaha!! I’m never gonna live that bloody pizza down!!!

@lucysmamits really good. (Not like the pizza 😜) I use this recipe https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/air-fryer-gammon

I use our air fryer for everything. I don’t have a photo of the gammon but here are 2 roast beef meals I used the air fryer for

We went to an American bbq restaurant with our friends last night and we said ‘we’ll do the combo for 2 and some sides please’ our friends say ‘yeah that sounds great let’s do that’ to the waiter. 40 minutes later 2 sharing platters, 2 bacon bites 1 thing of poutine arrives. We took 90% of it home. We thought we’d ordered 1 sharing platter between the 4 of us 🤦‍♀️😱I’ve got 4 boxes of leftovers in the fridge

Anyone else got seriously hungry following this thread? That all looks so delicious @sellotapechicken

@PrincessFluffyPants I blamed the chemo steroids...maybe it was this thread all along 🤣

Anyone up to much today?

It was insanely good!

Does anybody watched that daft comedy Mandy? Probably just me. Anyway the last thing I watched last night was her getting butt surgery so that she could look like Kim Kardashian in Bolton. She went to Turkey and had it done in the back of a kebab shop he injected lamb fat into her and her bum wouldn’t stop growing.

amyway today I’ve fancied a kebab since I woke up so I ordered one with a salad from a Turkish restaurant. I won’t eat lamb I just can’t stand the thought of it. Anyway it turns up beautifully presented but it’s lamb. And I looked at my order and I had ordered lamb, it was bloody delicious but I’m not doing it again. It just goes to show how things sink into your brain before you go to sleep. I think i will watch a comedy every night from now on,

I’ll need it this coming week. Scans on Tuesday and Wednesday.

How is everyone this morning?

I'm tired but I'm just about to get dressed & see if the girls are up to send to the shop. We need exciting stuff like bin bags & milk. I've decided to bake a birthday cake for their dad too - hopefully I still have the little racecars I used many years ago to put on the top - but I need some oreos & maybe sweets to put around it to turn it into a race track. Should be simple...hopefully!

(I somehow managed not to be organised enough to bake over the weekend & always make birthday cakes 🙈).

Hmmm, small problem...I.packed the cake tins...and the weighing scales 🤣. Looks like they're picking up a cake mix unless you have to weigh something to add to it!

🤣 just eyeball it

I considered that, but then couldn't find the little racecars I bought a few years back anyway. So now I have galaxy minstrels & oreos (to be tyre bumper things), but no cake. And I forgot to print chequered flags while I was using the printer earlier 🤷‍♀️. So, all in, a successful day here 🤣

🤣 at that point I’d be in the bath eating the minstrels

Cake is rescued 🥳 the girls went to big Asda for me ... not my finest but it's a birthday cake 🤣

That's a great cake. It's all about the effort. I currently have 7 multi coloured sponges in my freezer waiting to be made into a rainbow cake for my daughter's party next week.

That’s a fab cake! I’m just waiting for hospital transport to take me for an MRI. And tomorrow I have all the rest at 8am so god knows what time the transport will come at.

Im really tired these days I think it’s because of all the HCP’s I have every morning it’s a lot of waiting around. I was just napping when a cleaner I’d never met turned up and I couldn’t remember booking her! She’s just a lot of products my flat stinks of rhubarb!

@SewingBees I'm usually that organised that the cake would have been pre-baked and in the freezer, or baked at the weekend to decorate today. I managed neither but have put a note in my calendar at the beginning of next July to pre-bake or schedule time to sort it! You'll have to show us the rainbow cake 🌈...I think I made one once 🤔

@EachandEveryone do the HCP's come early? I'm guessing you're not keen on rhubarb?

I think I'm tired because of lack of alarm/routine. You'd think I'd learn by now - it's the same every break from school!

The last time I made a rainbow cake it was for my daughter's 6th birthday. I'd never attempted anything like it and was afraid it would be a disaster in front of her whole class and parents. To my surprise it was a triumph.

I've dug out the rainbow cake topper I used last time, turned the 6 upside down and voilà! Perfect for her 9th birthday.

Here it was

Loving this thread, every time I pop back in it’s full of photos of lovely food.

i love rhubarb but she used half a bottle of method that’s why it smelt so much..
they cancelled my scan last minute.

they also tried to reschedule tomorrows pet and ct scam but I said I’d rather not.

the runs still haven’t gone every I eat just comes out. My dr says I am allowed to use immodium even though online it says I shouldn’t with immunotherapy. I’m going to have some now and again in morning or else I’ll be going for my scan in a nappy!

@PrincessFluffyPants any improvement with the drug side effects?

This second cycle of Ribociclib has been better, I’ve been on top of using the anti-nausea tablets and the mouthwash and taking things very easy, just coming to the middle of week two now. We went out last night with friends and unfortunately the rich food and/or unknowingly drinking spoiled milk in my tea yesterday had me running to the loo as soon as I got home, I should have known better. I’m wiped out today, just plonked on the sofa for the past two hours. I’ve got another blood test coming up in a few days so I’m going to keep well hydrated and hope my WBC behave themselves for it. Luckily, dinner is just going to be pasta so my husband will sort it when he gets home. I’m a bit disappointed in myself as I’d had a great day yesterday, really rallied, very little pain for a change, and was able to go out to do a bit of weeding twice for half an hour at a time too. Days like that make me think I might be able to go back to work soon and then I get a day like today which feels like a bit of a setback. I’m sure tomorrow will be better.

How’s everyone else doing?