{"id":6194,"date":"2009-01-31T01:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/01\/so-the-consensus-seems-to-be.html"},"modified":"2009-01-31T01:47:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:47:15","slug":"so-the-consensus-seems-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/01\/so-the-consensus-seems-to-be.html","title":{"rendered":"So, the consensus seems to be&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That you guys don&#8217;t want to see the scar. I don&#8217;t blame you, it&#8217;s not very pretty \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m glad that I don&#8217;t have to prove my veracity.<br \/>\nAnd thanks to everyone for the recommendations on the port. I&#8217;m going to see if I can request that they install it. Before I had the operation, the doctor said that they could install a shunt that would allow them to give me the chemo directly into my abdomen but they couldn&#8217;t do it because of the type of cancer I have. I need to have it injected.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve stopped taking the Oxycodone even though I&#8217;m still in pain. I&#8217;m taking Tylenol Extra Strength for the pain and it seems to be enough. I feel better now that I&#8217;m off them (mentally) but phyically I can feel more of the aches and pains throughout my body (I now have a deep pain near my pelvic bone and back pain that I didn&#8217;t notice when I was on the pain killers). But the good news is that I&#8217;ve finally gotten my appetite back, the bad news is that I&#8217;m sitting here thinking about eggs and toast at 1:00 in the morning.<br \/>\nI cooked part of our dinner for the first time tonight (I made fried potatoes &#8212; since the cancer I&#8217;ve been a little defiant about eating fat \ud83d\ude42 It was good to get up and do something but it was pretty exhausting. I&#8217;m beginning to wonder how long it&#8217;s going to be before I get back to normal.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m planning to do some cooking for Super Bowl Sunday. Doug and Samantha like to watch football (though, Samantha is pretty bummed that the Giants didn&#8217;t make the Super Bowl) and I invited my parents to join them. I thought it would be nice to have Super Bowl food &#8212; chili and nachos and my mom is making wings (though she won&#8217;t make Buffalo wings because they&#8217;re too spicy). I make a pretty decent chili, I smoke the hamburger on the grill, use kidney and black beans, add a little bar-b-que sauce and a can of corn at the end. I cook it for hours so that it&#8217;s really thick and then serve it with cheese, chips and sour cream. Yum! Ok, now it&#8217;s 1:30 in the morning and I&#8217;m hungry for chili! I decided to make it on Saturday so that I can spend the day on it (I figured I should add a couple naps to prep time \ud83d\ude42 and chili is so much better the next day anyway.<br \/>\nI watched the talk shows today so that I could get some more ideas for typical football food but they weren&#8217;t very helpful. Though, one of them had a recipe for stuffing pepperoni and cheese into a biscuit which I thought was doable. So, what are you guys serving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That you guys don&#8217;t want to see the scar. I don&#8217;t blame you, it&#8217;s not very pretty \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m glad that I don&#8217;t have to prove my veracity. And thanks to everyone for the recommendations on the port. I&#8217;m going to see if I can request that they install it. Before I had the operation,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stuff-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>So, the consensus seems to be... - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/01\/so-the-consensus-seems-to-be.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So, the consensus seems to be... - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"That you guys don&#8217;t want to see the scar. 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