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Hi Teal sisters
I think our collaborative book should be called “The Sneaky Bitch” Thanks, Joan, I love it!
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Well, cottage week is over. Such a relaxing time. So nice to spend time with hubby away from my everyday reality! We made a 2-hour stop at my sister’s on the way home…so a 12-hour travel day by the time we got home yesterday. Puppy learned how to swim and she was so tired by the end of the day, she fell asleep with the ball still in her mouth 🤣.
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So glad to hear that you are eligible for a clinical trial. Which trial are you going to be participating in? Will you be staying with friends on treatment days or have you considered staying at the Princess Margaret Lodge (they have a shuttle to the hospital)?
I am going to be at PMH and PM Lodge on July 9th (with hubby) and then again on the 14th, 15th and 16th. Maybe our paths will cross and we can say Hi and chat a bit.
I hear you on wait time! The wait between last treatment and beginning of next treatment/trial is a difficult time. You just want to get on with it! Hang in there. Once you have completed all the pre-trial steps (they get the results very quickly) and they verify your eligibility criteria, you will be in treatment lickety-split!
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@GloHo the short bus was a big hit! We laughed soo much when we saw that cause it's an inside joke with the hubby and I. When we first met he jokingly asked me if I took the short bus to school when I was little lol. Almost 20 yrs later we still mention the short bus. It was fun cause it was our shuttle bus to downtown
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@Lorraine5845 I’m so glad to hear that you’re able to eat, even if it is hospital food! I can still remember the taste of a ghastly tuna sandwich that I managed to eat 5 days after debulking surgery. After two months, you must be willing to eat pretty much whatever they have?
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So true! 🤣🤣
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The Paleo Diet
My friend, who used to be quite plump
And used to have a dowager’s hump,
Who wouldn’t run and couldn’t jump,
Has gotten very thin.
She gets up early every morn
And runs ten miles before the dawn,
Her fatty bits have turned to brawn,
She’s lost her double chin.
And when I quizzed her, on the quiet,
She said she’s on the paleo diet,
And then suggested I should try it,
(I can’t imagine why.)
She eats what cavemen ate for food,
The stuff they gnawed and chomped and chewed,
With cat- tail roots and berries stewed,
Down in the Olduvai.
Or eggs they found, a royal treat,
And lots of lovely mammoth meat.
But nothing white and nothing sweet,
No ice-cream, cake or pie.
And now she fishes, traps and hunts.
Mostly she speaks in squeaks and grunts.
She’s weaving cedar clothes and once
I spied her knapping flint.
She seems at peace, though hard to reach
In her small cave down Whalebone Beach,
And , though I’m loathe to warn or preach,
Feel I must give this hint.
No aurochs roam our valleys now,
In place of them the placid cow.
The grassy steppes are under plough,
The new modus vivendi.
Those mammoths they are dead and gone
Beneath the ground they trampled on.
Be careful what you munch upon,
Especially if its trendy.
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