Round 2

It was 🤬 COLD today!!  It was -18 at 8am, and -15 at 2pm.  Beautiful clear day with crystalline blue skies, but that was just a deceptive lie.  That cold sliced through you and turned your skin into shards!  Oh my word, it’s the coldest it’s been so far this winter, and it’s obviously going to be colder, but I’m just getting my complaints in early!  We were in the car and physically shaking until it warmed up a bit… This is when I said that perhaps we should buy a new car with heated seats… Don isn’t keen on car shopping, but he’s teetering on the brink of those seats.  Jerry’s view is that he already has heated seats since he sits on my lap and never has to touch anything colder than body temperature.  It’s a slight bonus to me too as I have a little heat pack on my leg.  Don was happily watching sports — commentary and talking heads — as there weren’t any games in which he was interested this morning.  That’s going to change this evening, as there are a few games being played.  The main tournaments that he was following come to an end this weekend, and Canada’s already eliminated so his interest is low, but the ‘regular’ seasons are ramping up, so I will be largely ignored for a few nights a week 😆 

Today was the beginning of round 2 of chemo for this lot of drugs.  I was not thrilled at the thought of going in when it’s this cold, as the hospital has some cold spots and draughty areas if you happen to be in the wrong place.  Luckily I was in the “back” where there were no doors nearby, but there was still a distinct chilly area near me.  The nurses (who, God bless them, were running around and on their feet) agreed that there were some cooler areas, and got me a heated blanket.  I smiled, snuggled down and said that I was going to be a shawarma and toast!  They laughed and tried their best to not pull the blanket off me.  I think that the scale at the hospital is not working… they weigh me before every session, and today I got on the scale and it said 0.0  so I got off, they reset it and I got back on… 110lbs.  That’s just not right.  It can’t be.  I’ve been eating well, I have more energy than a few weeks ago, and it’s inconceivable that I’ve lost 7lbs in the last month!!  Just flat out not possible.  I’ll check my weight on my scale at home, but the one at the hospital is just whack.  But just as an extra precaution, I will only be eating high calorie foods from here on out.  I’ll be adding some caloric liquids to my drinking routine — like juices and so on — because there’s some weird jumbie thing happening here.

On the subject of food, I have to ask — what is wrong with these foods that pretend to be other foods that are then recommended by “nutritionists” who gush about how amazing they are?  I mean, really!  What’s wrong with cauliflower that it can’t be eaten just as cauliflowers?  No, it’s got to be ‘remade’ and served as fake rice, fake potatoes, fake chicken, fake pies!  “Not potato salad” = cauliflower salad.  Why not just day, “I’m making cauliflower salad”?  Or the people who make the argument that you should substitute something “healthy” for your cravings?  Listen, sweetie, if I’m craving chocolate, then that’s what I want.  Not carrot sticks or celery or crunchy jicama!  Chocolate.  Complete with cocoa fat, extra sugar, some milk and all the rich theobromide goodness (you know, the literal food of the gods?) that comes with it!  I might agree to swapping cheetos for carrots, but there are days when the salty crunch is what I crave.  I think that a lot of this falls under the heading of “misery loves company” in that you’re unhappy about your food choices and you want as many people as possible to be unhappy with you while pretending it’s “delicious!”  (It’s not.  And there’s nothing that you can do to convince me otherwise.)  Eat real food.  It’s not hard, and it really is delicious.  But avoid the zero-calorie sweeteners, the “lite” and “diet” versions of foods and use moderation!

That’s my rant… I was hungry, can you tell?  😝 I had to pause to eat (macaroni and tuna salad with salmon) and I’m currently debating whether or not to have a bowl of ice cream.  I’m at that stage where I’m not sure if I’m really hungry or just thinking of eating because, and I am beginning to feel sleepy.  Maybe I’ll have a hot chocolate (it’s certainly cold enough to warrant one!) and a madeleine.  We’ll see… the little dog is on my toes, so I’ll have to disturb him, so maybe I’ll just wait.  Good night!