SUE'S ESCAPE FROM CANCERLAND: All my Easter eggs in one basket

Sunday, April 5, 2015

All my Easter eggs in one basket

Hope the kids like special French Easter eggs

A povitica: Slovenian for walnut nut roll. Only this one is apple cinnamon as we have people coming over with nut allergies
Since we are having some Passover treats at our brunch today, it would be fitting to have some Eastern European delights. They make this nut roll in Poland but Julie's dad forgot the name. And as it turns out, it is completely different that the Croatian/Slovenian one

Things are in the oven: a lull before I get busy again. Two kinds of crustless quiche (taking most of the labor out of it), bagels, latkes, salads, lots of lunch stuff from the Italian market including smoked salmon spread. Steve got some lox too though I argued that the salmon spread was real similar. For dessert, an Italian Easter cake.

Hopefully it will be warm enough for the Easter egg hunt outside.

egg collectors

Italian Easter Cake aka a Colomba: it's supposed to be the shape of a cross.....

2 comments:

Elephant's Child said...: Busy, busy, busy - and it all looks delectable.
I hope your day was filled with love and laughter.; April 5, 2015 at 4:16 PM
Sue in Italia/In the Land Of Cancer said...: We had nice weather. The kids enjoyed the Easter Hunt. Must make it more challenging for the older kids next year. It was fun to see the kids enjoy themselves. Photos tomorrow.; April 5, 2015 at 5:54 PM

About me

I am a mother of 3, wife of 1, and grandmother of 6. For years, I had been a medicinal chemist. Not long after I was retired early, I found myself with triple negative breast cancer. My struggles with it are in this blog along with the joys and trials of being a mother and grandmother. I love to be physically active, travel, read, and garden. Although my degrees are in chemistry and cellular biology not medicine, I keep up with the medical literature and report herein watching closely for good news against this deadly disease. As time goes on, my stay in Cancerland has become more a bad memory than a reality. This blog has since morphed into a photo blog in which I try to capture moments of beauty in my life.

TIMELINE

9-10-08: 1.6 cm tumor discovered by routine mammogram confirmed by ultrasound

9-21-08: Biopsy confirming Grade 3, triple negative invasive breast cancer

10-7-08: First surgery and sentinel node biopsy.

10-9-08: Tumor had grown to 3 cm plus an additional tumor was found. Poor margins but the 3 sentinel nodes were negative

10-16-08: Follow-up mammograms: lots of microcalcifications that could be DCIS

10-29-08: Second surgery removing 3x the tissue as the first: Good news: no sign of cancer in any of it.

12-2-08: First dose dense treatment with Adriamycin and Cytoxan followed by Neulasta the next day

12-16-08: Second dose

12-19-08: Hair began falling out. In 2 days I would be completely bald.

12-30-08: Third dose

1-13-09: Fourth dose

1-27-09: First of 4 doses of Taxol

3-10-09: Last dose of Taxol

3-31-09: First of 16 radiation treatments (so-called hypofractionated Canadian study)

4-21-09: Last radiation treatment

Early May: All eyelashes and eyebrows suddenly fall out but see evidence of stubble on head

Mid July: Have an inch of curly salt-pepper hair vs straight blondish-white of before. Officially retire the wig.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

All my Easter eggs in one basket

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