With a little bit of luck, I won't have to go out of the house today. I plan to make butterhorns and peanut clusters. Hopefully Dad will be done working this afternoon to help with cookies. I'm going to bake a coffee cake for brunch and prepare the baked French toast to refrigerate overnight.
Grandma found out yesterday that the cells removed were cancerous. They didn't get everything, so she will have another lumpectomy after Christmas to take a bit more tissue. Because breast cancer is tied to hormones for growth, in someone Grandma's age, it is very slow to grow. They think that if they can get the current patch removed, it will be sufficient to put her on an anti-estrogen oral medication and it shouldn't give her any more trouble. Sounds pretty manageable. He said it is not altogether uncommon for older women to have some breast cancer, as it is not uncommon for older men to develop some prostate cancer. Both are hormone-related and grow so slowly in the elderly as to not be an influence. Dad said Grandpa LeGault had prostate cancer, and it was not the cause of his death.
I'm really sorry your wrists ache. Any ideas what could cause it? Have you been shoveling snow or lifting weights? Please don't bow out of Christmas Eve mass - Grandma especially would be most unhappy. I assume you've tried ibuprofen? Have you been evaluated for possible carpal tunnel, given all the time you spend at a keyboard? I have a pair of size small wrist braces you can borrow if they would be helpful.
I guess you'll have to decide what you need to do about church. I'd like for us to come to pick you up as soon as we're done with brunch though. I'll probably send Dad and Michael because I still need to bake pies and get some other things ready for Christmas dinner. Megumi and gang aren't coming, and I don't think Leone and sons are coming either. Just our small family gang again, but that was quite nice for Thanksgiving.
Food:
8:15 am 68 g cranberry-orange mini-scone, cherry juice from concentrate, half grapefruit, coffee
12:00 pm Slice cranberry orange bread, clementine, strawberry-banana soy shake
2:00 pm 1 peanut cluster
4:00 pm 2 sugar, 1 molasses cookies (samples)
5:45 pm 2 slices Little Caesar's cheese pizza
Exercise:
6:10-7:05 am Buns/Abs of Steel 2000 video
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Quite frankly I'm most unhappy with how the Catholic Church as a whole has been behaving lately.
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