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Tag: food
the foodz, i has it
my personal chef delivered today. the food is so yummy. i’m actually eating dinner. i’ve been having so much trouble with that.
it has taken me 5 years to figure out new york. what make it hard. what makes it easier. who are your friends. how to deal with all the crazy people in power.
i think that this discovery of delivered home cooked food is one of the more recent revelations. it is actually much less expensive than take out or deli counter food, much healthier, and everything is to my tastes. so none of it is hurting my mouth. its pretty amazing.
I realized that I had exactly 24 weeks left of my Interferon treatment, and decided I would mark those weeks with a really really fancy chocolate. I just ate my second one.
I bought a dozen jewel-like gems from Oliver Kita, and will get another dozen after these. I was afraid they might go stale
Half Way Point
I reached the half way point in my self-injections. 24 weeks done, 24 weeks to go. 72 injections.
I decided I want to go get the most expensive box of 24 chocolates I can find, and eat one every week for the next 24 weeks. Then (ever the pragmatist) I decided they might get stale, so I will get them in two rounds of 12. What is the most indulgent? Jacques Torres?
It has actually taken me nearly 10 days to get adjusted to the idea that I halfway, and that I have more of this behind me, than in front of me. It was really hard to feel that intuitively for a while. Now I feel it, and it feels good.
Of course, though, the last month, and the next two months are supposed to be the hardest ones. I can attest to how hard the last 10 days have been.
Gourmet Fish Oil?
My naturopath has me taking fish oil for depression and joint pain. I had been taking the gelitin encased ones. But my naturopath says you don’t get. Much out of those and he has me on the real thing. One tablespoon straight from the bottle.
It isn’t as bad as I thought. It is a little fishy which is covered by the lemon flavor. I’ve actually kind of acquired a taste for it. In fact I want it to be more subtly infused with thyme. Or maybe rosemary. I think that freshly lemoned fish oil could be a hit in the kinds of restaurants that serve wheatgrass. I’m joking but I’m also serious. San Francisco, I’m looking at you. Let’s see some gourmet mercurey free omega-3s!
I Made Dinner
I made dinner, after I got home, when I was tired. I didn’t order out. I didn’t get something from the deli counter at the fancy place near the subway. Okay, the ravioli were from the freezer, but I cooked them. And I cooked the mushrooms. And it all came out nicely.
I was feeling really low-energy when i got home, but I kept my focus, and went through the motions. And ended up with FOOD!
Amazing
Shattered Bowl
My hands are so beat up with lesions and cuts, and my skin is so thin and dry, I decided to use gloves to wash the dishes. It seemed prudent and responsible.
The first dish flew out of my hands, and crashed all over the floor. It was one of the big cereal bowls from my set. The set I grew up with. I had to concentrate really hard to think "it is just an object. do not let this make you fall apart. do not cry."
This is the second time today I had to do that. I had the same feeling, and response when I cut my finger, right under the fingernail, on the edge of a cardboard box. Cardboard cuts me! That’s how thin my skin is.
$100 bottle of wine
$100 bottle of wine from melanarrative on Vimeo.I bought KM and HT a bottle of $100 wine. I couldn’t drink it. But hey, when you have cancer you learn to savor the pleasures of life.
More Mouth Pain
So this looks worse than it is. I bit my lip. My tongue is covered in lesions, and I have a raw spot all over the inside of my bottom lip. I was trying to avoid getting the food in it. So instead, I bit it. Smooth…
Medicinal Mushrooms
i got chinese herbs to take. apparently one of the hot topics in herbalism is mushrooms. certain mushrooms are immunostimulants. three types in particular are the focus of most of the studies: shitake, maitake, and reishi. i regularly saute the first two, but i’ve never seen reishi before.
so i was in chinatown two days ago, and i thought to stop into one of the dried good stores. frankly i was expecting total epic failure, but the first person i talked to got very excited and walked to the back of the store and showed me this box. and explained that it was the extract of the red reishi mushroom. the spores are ground up in capsules.
he also tried to sell me some other herbal supplements for “manly potency.” i passed.
