The Week in Cookies [food, family]
May. 3rd, 2023 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterFinally, something of a reprieve today. Yesterday, I needed to finish writing my final exam, and had a handful of meetings on top of that, so not much time or bandwidth for much else. Today, in contrast, I am procrastinating from finishing up grading for my Advanced GenBio students (McSweeney's link), so I finally went and got an impression taken for a bite guard to prevent tooth-grinding at night, and I've tackled some lingering internet shopping tasks. I also got a handful of photos and some cat videos uploaded (links to my entire cat video playlist so far - got to do my part to keep the internets running!!).
So now I can show you what I mean, about the fussy bicycling cookies:
Some of those wheels will roll better than others. A quick internet search also indicates there are better bike cookie cutter designs out there, without the break point between the front and the rear of the bike. But my need to make bicycle-shaped cookies is not so strong that I'm itching for a replacement. I'm just done with this cookie cutter and will put it in the discard bin.
Also, I did go ahead and do this diabolical thing, at my sister's urging, as she is no fool when it comes to potential offers of cookies. Now that she has gotten them, I can share the outcome with you as well:
They actually turned out looking more innocuous and hilarious than I'd intially feared, heh heh heh.
Speaking of which, my sister also finally heard back from the backup surgeon (the surgeon who did the actual boobotomy is out on vacation or something). Of course, the news continues to move like a very slow-moving drama: the surgeon did report a "negative margin" around the main tumor (yay-phew, they got it all out), but also found cancerous cells in one of the three lymph nodes that were removed, although it had no "extranodal extension." That all means my sister's getting a referral to medical oncology, where likely she'll have a CT scan and radiation therapy, plus also possibly chemotherapy and/or hormone therapy (uhh, yay-boo? idk, maybe doesn't lend itself to pithy emotions).
What I'm curious about is whether it's possible to get copies of all the files when they do a CT scan. There have got to be home software options for viewing one's internal organs, and that part at least sounds like fun.
It will be interesting to see what the radiation mask looks like for this application. The radiation masks for head and neck cancers look...difficult.
So now I can show you what I mean, about the fussy bicycling cookies:
Some of those wheels will roll better than others. A quick internet search also indicates there are better bike cookie cutter designs out there, without the break point between the front and the rear of the bike. But my need to make bicycle-shaped cookies is not so strong that I'm itching for a replacement. I'm just done with this cookie cutter and will put it in the discard bin.
Also, I did go ahead and do this diabolical thing, at my sister's urging, as she is no fool when it comes to potential offers of cookies. Now that she has gotten them, I can share the outcome with you as well:
They actually turned out looking more innocuous and hilarious than I'd intially feared, heh heh heh.
Speaking of which, my sister also finally heard back from the backup surgeon (the surgeon who did the actual boobotomy is out on vacation or something). Of course, the news continues to move like a very slow-moving drama: the surgeon did report a "negative margin" around the main tumor (yay-phew, they got it all out), but also found cancerous cells in one of the three lymph nodes that were removed, although it had no "extranodal extension." That all means my sister's getting a referral to medical oncology, where likely she'll have a CT scan and radiation therapy, plus also possibly chemotherapy and/or hormone therapy (uhh, yay-boo? idk, maybe doesn't lend itself to pithy emotions).
What I'm curious about is whether it's possible to get copies of all the files when they do a CT scan. There have got to be home software options for viewing one's internal organs, and that part at least sounds like fun.
It will be interesting to see what the radiation mask looks like for this application. The radiation masks for head and neck cancers look...difficult.
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Date: 2023-05-04 03:14 am (UTC)Thanks for keeping us updated. And yes, I believe you can get copies of your MRI and CT scan results to have at home. When I had a 3D X-Ray of my jaw done they sent me the image files. You do usually need a viewer, however.
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Date: 2023-05-04 06:51 pm (UTC)I'll encourage RAC to ask for her files. Of course, she might already be planning to do so, anyway.