Real life with Lar

Do your boobs hang low? (Sung to the tune 'Do your ears hang low?'😉) When diagnosed with breast cancer you feel sucker punched. After the initial shock, a decision has to made: will I be a victim and give up or will I fight? I chose to fight. I'm finding that each new step on this journey to healing comes with new fears or obstacles. The latest fear I had to overcome was the MRI tube. I am NOT a fan of closed spaces. Now before you say, "Lar, there are openings on both ends" let me respond by saying,"Don't care. I am in a tube!" The only thing meant for a tube is toothpaste, in my opinion.   The good news is there is this wonderful thing called valium.   The doctor prescribed me this magical pill to take 30 minutes before the procedure. Afterwards, I couldn't care less about being in the tube. When I arrived at the hospital the day of the procedure, I was nervous but had my pill to help me. After filling out the paperwork I was ta...

Slow Cooker Meat and Noodles As the weather warms up, the crockpot comes out at our house. Heating the house by using the hot oven is out of the question for me. This is one of the 'go to' meals I pull out and use. There are similar ones on the internet. Like I always say, tweak a recipe to fit your taste. Let the creativity flow! Here's what you will need... 2 lbs Stew meat (trimmed of as much fat as possible)  1 Packet Dry Onion Soup Mix 1 Large Can of Cream of Mushroom soup 1 T Garlic Powder 1 pound Sliced Mushrooms (White, Bella, or a mixture)  Salt and Pepper to taste I bag of egg noodles Instructions are... Coat the inside of a skillet with cooking spray - set the heat at med-high. Once the skillet is hot, add the meat Add garlic powder and pepper to the meat. (Salt will be later as the dry soup mix is salty) Cook meat till it just starts to brown ( You can skip this step and just throw the meat in the crockpot, but browned ...

One of Life's Curve Balls I know on my Facebook page, this last Friday, I said I would let my followers know what was going on with me and the reason for my lack of recent blog posts. So let me just come out and say it: I have Breast Cancer.   It still feels weird to say those words. I had felt some pain in my right breast.  So of course I did what every sane and rational human being would do and I googled my symptoms.  According to what I read, breast pain is usually NOT associated with cancer. Plus at the time I thought there was no family history.(found out after my diagnosis a great aunt and second cousin had breast cancer)  The pain came and went but I decided I needed to get a physical anyway because I was so fatigued.  I scheduled my mammogram that I hadn't had in 3 years. I know, I know that was not a good thing to do.  After a mammogram and an ultrasound they said I had a  "mass that has the characteristics of cancer and...