Remembrance Day Today 🙂
Time flies. Tomorrow I have nurse appointment for taking off surgery staples. Seems too soon, am so worrying that my skin won't hold up, especially am still coughing out mucus from anesthesia. Damn 🫤 Here is crossing fingers my outer skin really already healed and shut good by the surgery staples. I don't see any blood out after returning home, but again, seems too soon. In fact, I was told 5 days after surgery I was to see my family doctor. Luckily Remembrance Day so no clinics open, thus tomorrow it will be. Sadly it won't be done by my doctor but a nurse, when I wanted to ask many things as there won't be surgeon follow-ups, which is something strange that Canada seems to regulate...I mean....major surgery and no follow-up but if anything comes up we have ER that often closes down due to lack of staffs, if not 811 for some info, or best 911 to take you out of town 😅
Ugh. Enough ranting of my worries, let's share a recipe 😁🤡😁🤡
These cookies are superb that I definitely stuffed my face shamelessly 😅
2.5 c strong baker's flour
1 tsp BS
A pinch of salt
1 c halved cranberries
2 tbsp icing sugar
2 eggs
1/2 c packed demerara style brown sugar
1/2 c regular white sugar
1 c peanut oil
Lemon oil to taste (at drop or two)
1 tsp lemon juice
1 handful white chocolate chips
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, set to side
Process eggs, sugars, oils, and lemon juice until completely combined, set to side
Mix halved cranberries with icing sugar
Preheat oven to 350 F
Pour in wet ingredients into dry ingredients, mix, then add in chocolate chips and coated cranberries, mix until completely combined
Drop by cookie-scoop on ungreased pan, bake for 8-10 mins
Cool on rack and enjoy 😍
Unless things are really different over there nurses are probably better to do stuff like staples anyway as they seem to do it a lot more often XD
Surgery has gone okay by the sounds of things? And if they don't think the skin has healed up properly they will probably not take the staples out or will deal with that somehow.
Have you posted something similar to his before? I was looking at this one thinking my boys will love this, and then thinking have I seen something like it before? Or maybe I'm just confusing it with the white chocolate and raspberry cupcakes my daughter has made before XD
Day 9 post op, no longer needing pain killer and laxative (i know TMI 🤣)
Still bed rest, getting bored of it, but getting there slowly
Monday i will return to the nurse to take off the staples after her assesment last Tuesday. She agreed it was way too early.
Your daughther cupcakes sound awesome!! but i thought you didnt like white choc chips?
Ergh yeh bedrest is a drag. Hope you don't have too much longer!
Does the skin look a bit better now?
You remember correctly, I don't like white chocolateXD she made the cupcakes to donate to the canteen for one of the competitions as the money from canteen sales during comp season goes to the gym program.
Wow what a wonderful daughter!
I think so...I hope so 😅 when the nurse saw me last tuesday, she said she thinks its healing nicely. So am hoping that's true. To me, I look like Frankenstein with all the staples. And since i am tan, it wont look nice unlike on lighter skin. I have 2 other surgeries before and both ended up darkening on my skin, look horrible. And this one, longer cut, longer incission, tons of staples. Its brutal.
This is close to week 2. I was given 8-12 weeks window as mine is vertically cut instead horizontally (6-8 weeks for horizontal incission, I was informed).
Not supposed to climb stairs for at least 4-6 weeks
Not to lift anything more than 10 lbs for the 1st year, and to start being cautious of lifting anything above 10 lbs for the rest of my life now, supposedly, altho many therapists argue that it seems.
Idk who knows better, nurses, doctors, therapists, or patients bodies 😅
Oh damn that's a lot D: