This weekend has been fantastic in the sense that I have not left the house at all. I have spent the weekend just resting and gaining more energy. Even though I have been home the whole weekend I do not think that I have eaten as well as I should have. Last night right before bed I had a pogo and the texture of the hot dog was a bit off putting for me and I had quite a lot of nausea. Today while eating dumplings for super it was not amazing either. Texture of food is having a big impact for me today. I tried eating a cookie and that was not sitting well. I am not sure what the pattern is, but at times, certain food just does not sit super well with me. Right now it seems that any meat that has a soft texture I am struggling with. Tomorrow we are going to my parents for dinner and ,I mentioned a bunch of different meats that I did not want so I think that we will be eating rice, with beef on top of either watercress of lettuce and tomatoes. It is a dish that I rather enjoy, the beef is marinated and sometimes they will use peanut butter but it sits on a bed of lightly sweet vinegared watercress or lettuce and we dip everything into a lemon sauce. When Mel started eating over at my parents, it is a dish that she really enjoys as she really loves lemons. Anything that they make with the lemon sauce she loves. My parents asked about other dishes and I shot down a bunch of them. Mel noticed that my mother had a bit of a cough and asked about it. With my lack of immune system we are pretty careful about not going out around people that are sick. We have no groceries in the house and will need to go buy fruits and vegetables tomorrow. Olivier has some ideas that he wants to have for dinner so I think that I will make one of them. I had made some hot sauce on Friday using some peppers from our garden and the sauce is not too hot, so everyone should be able to eat it without much difficulty.
I was up at 6:30 this morning and stayed up till about 10:30 and then decided that I needed a nap. My mother called me about 10 minutes into the nap and woke me up. Mel asked why did I not have my phone on silence, but when I take my naps during the day I like to listen to music while I nap and the call would have gone through as the music would have stopped. Last night Mel came home around 1:30am, I had tried to stay up but at 12:30 I was too tired and went to bed. I heard Xavier go into his room, but Mel was quiet and surprisingly did not wake me up when she came to bed.
the first time that I had cancer we switched our bed and mattress and with the new bed it isolates movements super well. When Mel comes to bed I normally do not know. The exception is when she likes to shine her flashlight at me and it wakes me up. She manages to get me in the eyes and the bright light wakes me. As she struggles to fall asleep I am pretty sure it is jealousy and vengeance when she does it. Everyone this morning got up around 9:30am. They told me about their escapades yesterday while i enjoyed my coffee and then I went back to sleep. I took another nap this afternoon as I was still rather tired. I am feeling much better now but I think that tomorrow will be great.
As a child I remember going to the CNE with my parents. I remember going into some of the exhibition areas and eating some of the food and playing some games. My cousin’s child is amazing at winning some of the games and every year there are lots of photos of him with some of the huge stuffed animals that he wins. I really want to eat some good dim sum so I want to go down to Toronto. I have a craving for some clams in black bean sauce as well. If I see some nice clams for sale tomorrow I might just buy a bunch to bring to my parents or get them to make some mussels in black bean sauce for me. i think that it is a dish that I can eat but I am not 100% sure. My mom is interested in going with us but she said that they can not walk around for two days, I told them that I can not either. I think that we would drive down on Friday night, spend Saturday at the CNE and them come home on Sunday after we go to Nations Experience and eat at the Pho restaurant in that complex that is supposed to be pretty good. Olivier loves to eat at Vietnamese places these days. We can have dim sum for breakfast on Saturday before we go to the CNE or for dinner that night. Or have dim sum on Saturday morning and skip the Vietnamese. I do find it amusing that the kids are willing to travel for trips that involve food experiences. Xavier was also interested in watching an Argos football game and they are playing that night on Saturday, Tickets are suprisingly not super expensive and provide access to CNE. The game is at 7pm, so we would be able to do a full day at the CNE and then go to the Argos game after. The CNE opens at 10am, so we could go eat dim sum at 9am and then meander over to the CNE and spend the day there before we attend the Argos game. I am not sure if we would end up staying for the whole game as both Mel and Olivier are not big football fans. I am not even sure that they would know what is going on. My sister and parents could go home to the apartment if they did not want to attend the football game. The Northern Life seems to think that my father is a huge football fan. When we first arrived in Canada there was an article in the paper that indicated that he loved watching CFL. Spoiler alert, he is not a fan of football and never really ever watches it. I had asked him about it once before and he just scoffed at it and said he had no clue what was going on. I had looked up some prices and we can get a 2 bedroom suite with 3 beds for the weekend trip for unver $600 which is not too bad at all. We will figure out what we want to do in the next couple of days and even see if want to go or not. The thing that scares me abit about it though is that I have treatment this week, and I am unsure of what the impact of that will be. Tomorrow we will be going to talk to my oncologist so we will see what the plan is. My weight has been pretty stable and Mel thinks that my face looks fuller now. She asked me when was the last time I weighed myself and whenever I am naked in the bathroom I always weigh myself. When I am at HSN they always have me weighed with my clothing on that adds on a couple of pounds. I have offered to get naked, but htey always say it is fine. They would not make great researchers with that level of accuracy.
QHM