Oh you lot do give me a good giggle!! poor old Reggie in a rubber suit, I nearly cried at the reggie/smartie love child. Thank you so much Smartie for all your efforts - you are pure genius and have a twisted talent
I was thinking about smartie and sum yesterday as we were in the australia Toys R Us and they had a whole load of smurfs by the checkout - young OzMoz was very puzzled when I giggled at them
On to plan, I was good on Monday and Tuesday, totally on plan - yesterday went a bit wrong. My OH had the day off and asked me if I wanted a pie - Australians make lovely meat pies and it's a big snack thing here - anyway, I declined as I'm trying to be good as gold, so bless him, he wasn't paying attention to my reasoning and so bought me a cream vanilla custard slice instead which incidentally was sweet and somewhat revolting. I had to eat some of it as he was being nice but had to ditch most of it because I just couldn't stomach it
Then in the evening, I was in a hurry doing dinner and just got one of those jars of Chicken Tonight and did that for all of us with chicken, veggies and mash. I have no idea how bad that is as I don't usually use sauce jars, but I assume it probably wasn't one of my better days! Back on track today though, another green day as I like them best. Weetbix for brekkie, jacket potato and beans for lunch, probably pasta and veggie sauce tonight, I can get away with that tonight as OH plays indoor cricket so will do his own dinner and young OzMoz is happy having meatfree days.
Now on to the less chirpy news, meeting at the hospital with m-i-l didn't go well at all. The consultant essentially said that there really is no more that they can do in relation to the tumour itself, that the cancer has spread so now it's just down to symptom management and pain management. Even though, my OH and I had suspected this was coming, it was still like being hit by a steam roller. My m-i-l is as brave as they come and has really taken it on the chin - she is not going to give up and is still planning on fighting. She is going out of town again next week for an operation to bypass the stomach to stop her being sick, they won't be removing the tumour though as that is just too big an operation for her to cope with plus it's spreading anyway.
I've been through this scenario before with my own mum a few years ago so I know how to cope and as far as I am concerned any dealings with mum are the same as before just deal with life as it comes and enjoy our time together. My poor f-i-l is devastated though, but m-i-l will get him sorted out and whilst she looks after him, she doesn't worry so much about herself, so it has it's uses.
Anyway, I'm not going to go on and on, but concentrate on life and living it to the full. I just thought that I would let you know how things stand. I really appreciate all the kind words and thoughts that you have expressed, it's great to have your support and even though we only know each other over t'internet, I'm glad you are in my life.
Hurrah and huzzah! Time for me to go and create pomme de terre avec haricot blanc a la sauce tomate et salade minime or something like that