Sounds right to me, Andi.

Jigsaw puzzles

I swear by the Magic Puzzles app on my iPad. In fact, I now do puzzles on my commute. The free daily puzzles on easier mode, and other puzzles on the more difficult level.

someone who is allergic to regular potatoes

That would SUCK.

Eh, it's not so bad. Once you assimilate the fact of how you feel when you try to sneak a bite or two. You get used to doing other things, but yeah. Every once in a while I just want baked with sour cream, or herbed fried wedges or twice-baked with bacon and chives, and feel terribly deprived and put-upon that I could have it, but there would be consequences. There's the tomato thing, too. I give myself the option of finding the most beautiful, most fragrant, most perfect homegrown tomato, and having one perfect tomato sandwich with mayo, salt, and paprika every summer, and count the consequences worth it. Peppers--all kinds--are totally out, though, onion is possible if it's cooked for hours (stews, soups). Same with wheat, though the reactions are different and not as severe, as long as I have a *little* of it, infrequently.

You make your choices, and you adapt. And sometimes you grumble and whine.

I think there must be something wrong with me - I have more patience with soduku than Angry Birds.

One is based on logic. The other is just f'd up. Makes perfect sense to me!

:: signed, Soduku lover! ::

So Hubby had chemo yesterday and this morning, and we just finished the usual celebratory lunch, and he said the chest pain wasn't going away like the doctor said it would. So now we're in the ER waiting to see what the EKG says.

Anyone here ever have an ERCP? It's being recommended for diagnosing/investigating a growth on my liver and sounds a little....invasive.

Fingers and toes crossed, Connie. Hoping you are both home and recuperating from the chemo soon.

An ERCP is the procedure that finally found and removed the gallstone that was blocking my biliary duct and that triggered my acute necrotizing pancreatitis that almost killed me a few years ago.

It is a somewhat invasive procedure and in my case the doctors didn't want to perform it because of the pancreatitis. My understanding is that if I hadn't already been in a dire situation with the pancreatitis that the procedure would have been relatively routine.

If the doctors are having troubling getting a good image of the growth through other means then it is probably a good idea. I know in my case the rather large gall stone didn't appear on any of the multiple MRI or catscans that were performed on me.

Is Valerie's story here, or is that only on Facebook (which I've already read)?

Only on facebook.