Daily Check in June 9, 2021

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clemencia2us wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:01 am Good morning all

Slept well last night. Wanted to stay in bed longer, but the pack was not going for that. Must be nice that they go back to sleep right away

No sun today. Rather gloomy.

My sibling told us that a person that attended my aunt's funeral three weeks ago has covid. And she had already been vaccinated since she is a nurse. So we are all wondering about it. I stayed away from people, but most were all hugging each other. We shall see.

guess it is not over
I saw something on TV a few days ago about someone else that had had their shots and developed Covid. They are calling it "a break through." It is suppose ti be a rare occurrence. We will just have to wait to see and still be cautious.
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gaylejackson2 wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:04 am Good morning friends!

Another warm sunny day, cooler by a few degrees than usual. Dh woke me at 5:30 AM to kiss me and hug me goodbye. That is great, but I was really wishing I could sleep in a bit.

It has been a busy few weeks. I’ve been fainting a little more, but I’m seeing doctors regarding this. I’m sorry if I’ve mentioned this before.

Today I’m going to a natural-pathic alternative medicine doctor to get an ozone treatment with a vitamin chaser. It will cost a chunk of money out of pocket, but if I can regain some energy and kick my continual lethargy and tiredness, it will be so worth it.

Last night, ds18 had a Facebook live for his church mission call. He is going to the Bolivia Santa Cruz Spanish-speaking mission with online MTC (Missionary training center) starting October 19th. A really fun, and amazing thing to me, is that another boy in our ward (local church congregation) received his mission call to the exact same place with the exact same start date!!

I’m off to get sprinklers running on my front lawn for a few minutes before it gets too hot, then breakfast, feed the cats, and then a quick shower before I go to my doctor at 10 AM. Afterwards I plan to wash laundry for the rest of the day.

As per other times, I probably won’t be on for awhile, but this reason being that today, tomorrow and Friday are packed full of Dr. related things. Friday is an nine hour driving for round-trip for follow up on my third phase breast reconstruction, the nipple and areola re-pigmentation. That was originally supposed to have been on Monday, but I got stuck in road construction in Parley’s Canyon during rush hour and I was by the time I got into SLC valley and was 20 minutes from his office, he called and canceled our appointment. I was really angry about that & then I had an accident with my water that completely soaked my clothes. So there I was drenched with no spare clothes, and looking at a 4 1/2 hour drive home through the same road construction I had just struggled through. So I found a Walmart for spare clothes, they called my cousin to see if I could spend the night and get my clothes washed, she graciously agreed and I was just grateful not to have to drive until 10:30 to 11 o’clock at night. Tuesday morning, I got home in time to get the house clean and dinner made, before the time that DS 18 had picked for his mission call Facebook live reveal show. He did it on the front lawn, and we were extremely grateful that none of the cars driving by did so in a loud and I’m noxious manner, perhaps I did have done that in the past when there hasn’t been a large crowd of people outside to see them.

I hope you all have a wonderful day today. ❤️😊
Gayle you might be overdoing things. Your body had been through so much and you have such a heavy load being a mom and wife.. Try to get some rest. I hope the treatment helps but maybe assign the kids more things to do. (( hug)).
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ChristmasTrees wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:06 pm Hi Everyone.......So....We saw the surgeon that specializes in skin cancers. DH as of now has a stage 1B melanoma. His surgery will be in July...they are backed up due to COVID....but she assured us that a few weeks would make NO difference regarding the cancer. She will remove the cancer with wide and deep margins...then send it down to the lab to make sure the margins are clear. Then he will have sentinel node surgery. Radioactive dye is injected into the site (before the first surgery) then it is mapped under a machine that follows it to the first set of lymph nodes. The first few nodes are removed and will be checked for cancer to see if it has spread. That takes about a week for the results..they use stains etc. Then she will clear the margins on a spot on his arm that was biopsied and is not cancer..but has atypical cells.
IF there are cancer cells in the lymph nodes the cancer stage goes from. 1B to a stage three. She does NOT think that that will be the case..but says she can't rule that out til we have the results.
We both liked the surgeon VERY much...young...very thorough...took all the time we needed for questions.
So...we are optimistic.
DH is the love of my life. Our 49th anniversary is next week. We met when I was 17.
Thank you so much for all your good wishes. It means so very much.
Trees
Praying for good results for Jackie.
Trees Thanks for the update on your DH. I am putting him and you on my prayer list.. ((hugs)).
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frugalmom wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:53 pm Alliesmama, that is scary about your vision-will pray for you that you can retain whatever vision you can and hopefully not lose any-I did not see a post about this but saw someone's response on this,so hope everything will be okay.

Jackielou, I always told my patients to write down all the questions they may have first before even going in-think about it at home where you have time and not feel any pressure. Write down complete answers too not a few words bc when I look back on my answers sometimes I am like what the heck was I writing and have no idea-so I have to write out complete answers now! I will keep you in my prayers that everything goes okay for you and be the best outcome for you!

Today it is windy and gusty but a beautiful bright day. We went to get the CT scan for dh-they found a lung nodule when they were checking out his heart bc of chest pains. His heart was ok, but then they found the lung nodule-oh great-sheesh! One thing after another! He is not one for any PDA out in public so he surprised me when he put his arm around me as we were walking through the parking lot and hugged me and told me thank you for coming with him (I go to all his appts). I was stunned lol, of course, I said.

Anyway, I am hoping it is nothing bc they thought my son had an aggressive cancer in the lungs two days before Christmas they told me and ruined our Christmas that year! That was the year I had like 12 horrible things happen to me one after another-everything from knee surgery, deaths in the family, even lice(eeew gross! My dd got it from school and spread it to me-eeewww!). But this was the worst of it when they told me he may have cancer-and after the biopsy-it was thank goodness (I prayed sooo hard and had everyone praying too-you may remember that!?) it ended up to be an encapsulated wall over an old infection.

Now what are the possibilities of that happening like where in the world did that come from!? So I truly believe in divine intervention bc it has happened so many times in my own life-unexplainable things that only through God it has to be, but that is what I believe at least.

So I am hoping it will be something like that-I hope....We luckily do not have any cancer on either side of our families-but he uses all that Roundup and pesticides,etc-I told him I will live with spiders Idc. I even was bitten by a poisonous spider and had cellulitis that almost turned into sepsis-and I would still live with spiders than have pesticides,etc.

Frugal happenings: I used the zucchini and cucumbers from my garden (didn't know cucumbers had spikey things on there on the outside-peeled those off). So I had 4 chicken thighs, so two pieces went to kung pao chicken and i diced the chicken and zucchini and a half of a red bell pepper and added peanuts. I had gone to the Asian market and often I buy the 1.00 bag of produce they have clearancing out the vegetables so I got two papayas (which normally are expensive like 7.00 or so) for 1.00 and 3-4 huge eggplants which were getting soft but still looked good. I made a Thai eggplant and chicken (only two pieces of thigh)dish with Thai basil and fried tofu pieces.

The other eggplants I will cut and will make an Indian Baingan eggplant dish. All produce for a dollar or free from my home garden. We already ate part of it and there is still so much more like at least two or three even more meals for each dish so it is like .55 a serving or so for the eggplant dish(1.65 a meal for three and made about 9 servings or so) and maybe like .56 cents a serving(1.68 for a meal of three and made about 9 servings) for the kung pao dish. So made out on that one. Really cheaper than eating out at a restaurant where you would pay here like 10-11.00 for these dishes these days at Panda Express for the kung pao and get much less or the local Thai place and I made three to four times as much!

Oh, the cucumbers I smashed it added some sesame oil, freshly chopped lots of garlic, red flake chile and rice vinegar and a bit of stevia (should be sugar)and soy sauce. Great on a hot day! Had some kim chee too. Actually may extend even further since I do not eat dinner-although today I am a bit hungry now as I am writing about this-uh oh-lol! I am really glad my garden is producing this year-although my dh says you use so much water for such few produce coming out that you end up paying more for the water-so Idk-but I still like my own produce and picking it out from my own garden! Tastes better too! Only thing is this year I bought a lot of cherry tomatoes and only got one regular tomato plant, Idk why I thought I had it I guess already-so I am using the cherry tomatoes as regular tomatoes too for cooking and I am fine with that-think it tastes just as good!? Oh also I go to this Afghani market and the guy is soooo nice and his sister too they always try to give me FREE things-he gave me a huge box of mangoes (btw today in the Asian store I saw baby mangoes like the size of my thumb and I never saw that before!?) for free. BUT I know they are a business and have to make money so I told the sister to charge me for it anyway-he had loaded it in my car-he is always giving me free food. So she charged me what they pay for it only 5.00 for a box of like 20 mangoes which is a great deal still! They are just such a sweet family! The box at the Asian store was almost 15.00 and had a lot less mangoes like 9, so got a great deal!

I am soooo sore all over like I think my body flared up over the last exercise class or maybe the classes all combined and compounding on each other! I felt it getting out of bed esp my arms and shoulder and neck so I took it easy since I had my dh's ct scan anyway.The last class I actually liked it was bc it was like ballet which was like home for me. But they added weights to the arm movements so that is probably why I am sore now. They had this rolling foam thing to massage you or roll over-I got that from PT one time and didn't know really how to use it and was so uncomfortable that I threw it away-now that I know how to use it I should have kept it! I got it free, but I think it is worth like 40.00 or so-it was just sitting in the garage! As I am moving my body and typing I am hearing audible cracks and noise coming from my body-not good-lol! Oh made my own Thai iced tea today and cooling! The rick is the type of tea you use-they have special Thai tea which is orangey in color and you can add lime or just healf and half or condensed sweet milk if you want it like the restaurants-nice and refreshing! Took me years to figure this out-it was the darn tea that was different! Hmmm...just wondering if it is food color that makes the orange color or the tea-hmmm, have to check that out! I went to check that-sigh it is yellow food coloring-hate stuff like that-so next time find Thai black tea without dye and it has vanilla too (I will not get fake vanilla flavoring bc that is beaver butt juice I call it! Made from the beaver's uh hum glands! SO gross-like who in the world would think of using beaver's butt glands for a food flavoring like how would you even try to experiment with that by tasting it first?!).
Ellen Marie. Thank you for the concern about my eyes. I am being very cautious with the medication that is causing my eye problems so do not be overly concerned. I have two good eye Drs that are monitoring me for the problems with the possible holes in my vision. The holes are reversible if the medication is stopped in time. One is a retina specialist and the other my regular eye Dr who does the testing in between seeing her and the retina specialist.

I am so sorry to hear about your DH. I will put him on my prayer list. Hopefully it is something that is not serious.

Love hearing about your garden producing so well and the various ways you are making food from it as well as your store purchases. You really are a great cook and being very frugal too. You are an inspiration.
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Re: Daily Check in June 9, 2021

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Hi everyone. A late check in. Not much going on here just puttering around the house.
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ChristmasTrees wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:06 pm Hi Everyone.......So....We saw the surgeon that specializes in skin cancers. DH as of now has a stage 1B melanoma. His surgery will be in July...they are backed up due to COVID....but she assured us that a few weeks would make NO difference regarding the cancer. She will remove the cancer with wide and deep margins...then send it down to the lab to make sure the margins are clear. Then he will have sentinel node surgery. Radioactive dye is injected into the site (before the first surgery) then it is mapped under a machine that follows it to the first set of lymph nodes. The first few nodes are removed and will be checked for cancer to see if it has spread. That takes about a week for the results..they use stains etc. Then she will clear the margins on a spot on his arm that was biopsied and is not cancer..but has atypical cells.
IF there are cancer cells in the lymph nodes the cancer stage goes from. 1B to a stage three. She does NOT think that that will be the case..but says she can't rule that out til we have the results.
We both liked the surgeon VERY much...young...very thorough...took all the time we needed for questions.
So...we are optimistic.
DH is the love of my life. Our 49th anniversary is next week. We met when I was 17.
Thank you so much for all your good wishes. It means so very much.
Trees
Praying for good results for Jackie.
Trees, everything sounds very positive for your DH. Enjoy your 49th anniversary next week and many more in the years ahead. (((Hugs)))
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