The great pantry clean out

What brought this on? Liz mentioned this a while ago and it's been on my mind since!!

So today was the day and it was a GOOD thing I did! There was evidence of a mouse in the house!!!


There were a few things chewed. Yuckie!!

The first thing to do is take EVERYTHING out!! Yep, everything!!! Ok so
The "cansolidator" didn't really come out and stay out. It came out in pieces the was relocated one shelf down


The next step was to put it all BACK in!! Wow. The organization included date checks! The oldest thing was 2007! Whoops. It was hidden in a container in the back of the cupboard.

I ended up chucking 2.5 bags of garbage. Three grocery bags of goodies for mom if foods we will never end up eating.


Mom was my date checker and moral support through the effort! It was a LOT of stuff to go through!!


I admit I got about half way done putting it back in and then pooped out. Mom and I sat in the living room and chatted for a bit. She went home to feed dad and I got back at it.

I finished up, vacuumed the kitchen and then laid down for the rest of the day.

662 steps right in this house. Back and forth and back and forth 😜.

Haven't done this in a while

I'm down 55lbs. Holding steady but still losing S. L. O. W.
But not gaining. Working in it counting calories and trying to behave.

Some days are better than others!!

Guess who got IN the pool today?

Yep - ME!!



Going IN!!!


Floating on the pretzel as my queen chair was dead, dead, dead. I didn't have the energy to blow up a new one.


I couldn't see CRAP in the sunshine! I didn't get any other pictures, try as I might and even with a water proof case.

What brought this on? Discussions with everyone about how HOT it is and me thinking.....nooooo, it's FALL. Well der, I stay in the house 99% of the time. So yeah it was time to get my butt out of slug mode.

I did about 10 (hahahaha more like 5) minutes of water aerobics type moves in the deep end. Mostly bicycle and arms swishing on the sides but it was something 😄

Audrey did fine and honest it was change day and I had been procrastinating, so I got out, got showered changed and am ready for bed! Ha! Yep. My life is sooo thrilling.

Amazing!

Well it's amazing what happens when you take your meds the RIGHT way! Ha!

I took the steroids two per day for the three days and really the change is amazing.

I'm still tired don't get me wrong but it's NOT the emotional tired of "what the hell was I thinking doing chemo" tired.

I made it to Ikea - granted just in and out the back door and no further. No wandering. Just in and out. Then to the pizza place that we LOVE there near Ikea. Antico-Pizza Napoletana. Telling you, it's like being back in Italy for a minute. I wanted spicy pizza as my mouth feels a bit "off" and fuzzy. So we got the hot pepper one. Yum!! Butch was cute. He looked at the smaller pizza and said "that's not enough". Yeah, it was. My tummy doesn't hold much anymore and two small pieces was plenty for me! They were quite happy with their reminding pieces. :)

I then slept most of the way home - zzzzz yeah. Tired but not exhausted.

Tried to eat my ice cream (well really frozen custard) from Freddie's again. Nope. Not happening yet. Still way too tingly in the mouth for that!! Ha!

Had lots of diarrhea that day. Not sure if it's the chemo or the pizza but as the day(s) wore on I think it's the chemo. Ok can deal with that.

Monday rolled around and I'm still tired but again NOT exhausted. A little weaker than normal but OK. Went to physical therapy to get some exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor. They seem easy enough.

They did mess up my appointment and put me in the Pavilion instead of out by my house. OK. Who cares. I made it finally. :)

Then Elizabeth and I headed to Moms house to drop off Linda's info and get her car she had left there the day prior. We had a nice visit with them and Linda is feeling much better - yay!!

I had thoughts about going to the Fair but honestly just didn't want to go. Next year maybe 😜

Right now the only complaint I really have is tingling in my tongue and lips when eating cold things or using metal utensils. It's interesting. I did power through that custard last night and honestly had my tongue go a bit rogue in me and be useless for a bit. It was a tiny bit disconcerting as I couldn't talk right but it passed. Yeah, yeah, yeah don't do that again. I get it. It was soooo good though. Worth the weird feelings
😄

Rough spots inside the mouth are there still. No sores yet. Maybe I'll avoid those? I've moved to a soft toothbrush when I start getting "rough" to be more gentle with the skin. Hopefully that will help.

Nausea was at bay the whole time - had a minute of nausea for just a second then it went away. Which is bad because I just want to eat and eat and eat. While trying to lose weight or maintain that's not good.

My eyes are seriously taking a daily hit too. Blurry like sleepy eyes. 😳 oh well it's livable. Oh. And my nose. I feel like the lining is wonky. Not quite a bloody nose but in the verges of getting one. Dry and building up yuck. Bloody boogers. Gross eh?

The BEST news is the back pain is gone!! Yep. I use the milkweed balm the first few days and it lessened and is at bay for now! Yay!!

So. 6 days out and feeling pretty darn good. Hopefully my immune system is holding steady and all is well in that front. To be honest. I'm confident I WAS super healthy before this and will be able to tolerate this while thing well throughout. That first week was hopefully a fluke due to how I messed up the steroids. 😄

Sunday update.

A new hernia belt. Sad when a package shows up with medical supplies and you're super happy about them. Ha! It's so much lighter than the HUGE heavy binder that they gave me in the hospital and "modified" for me with a simple hike. Ha!


Hair loss report. Thining is about all we are seeing still with round two. I can live with that. Reality is that I can live with just about anything as long as I'm alive, ya know?


Is it my imagination or is that hernia belt making the appearance slimmer? I think it may well be.


Side view. I didn't weigh myself. It's to depressing as it is going SO much slower after the whole super low cal diet. About 2 lbs a week or so. Sigh. Last I weighed I was at 53lbs last weekend


Saturday night I decided to get a jump on nausea- just in case... I didn't like that last time. So here is the radioactive color pill - ha! Talk about BRIGHT!!


And Sunday morning in the porch very reminiscent of last Saturday... so yeah thinking I just pushed the exhaustion clock by a day. But that's OK too. I have been tired and blurry eyed (sleepy eyes) for the last two nights and muddled through. Will continue to do so.

I did go see Linda yesterday at Moms. Poor Linda is so sick. I was precautions and didn't touch anything and washed my hands when I left. Just in case. I feel so bad that she's not well, but it was good to see her. Elizabeth and Butch are going to drive her rental to ATL tonight and she's going to stay another few days to recuperate and be able to make it home without incident :( I may go with them as I'm still feeling pretty good in short spurts and will nap in the car if it comes to it :)

And as of lunch NO MORE TAPE


There's surgical glue there still there but the tape is GONE!!