Freaky Friday 6th Nov-daily chat..

becky_rtw

tigzem wrote: »

Am doing housework and making pumpkin soup.... if I can get a recipe that sounds simples enough:rotfl:

I chop mine up, peel it and the chop out the middle bit in small bits, then put some butter in a pan with a bit of garlic very finely chopped and a small amount of water then add the pumpkin on a low heat...once its soft I add water to cover it and leave to simmer for a while...once its cooked through I mash it with a masher, add chilli flakes, pepper and a touch of salt and reduce till thick...then i push it through a seive (or you could wizz it in a food processor) and then eat :D

sallyx

Side pocket is fine Squizz...my legs might hang out the side if thats ok though!!!

redsquirrel80

sallyx wrote: »

Side pocket is fine Squizz...my legs might hang out the side if thats ok though!!!

Ooh I dunno, Ryanair might charge extra for legs! :rotfl:

tigzem

becky_rtw wrote: »

I chop mine up, peel it and the chop out the middle bit in small bits, then put some butter in a pan with a bit of garlic very finely chopped and a small amount of water then add the pumpkin on a low heat...once its soft I add water to cover it and leave to simmer for a while...once its cooked through I mash it with a masher, add chilli flakes, pepper and a touch of salt and reduce till thick...then i push it through a seive (or you could wizz it in a food processor) and then eat :D

Thanks... am roasting some to start with, my pumpkin is 45lb!!

sallyx

lets cut them off then..didn't like them much anyway

Toto

schoolrunmum wrote: »

Yeah it is Linda....when she was diagnosed she was confident this quack diet would sort it. It's quite plain to everyone (but her) that it's not working...her consultant sat her down the other day and told her straight-she is seriously ill and needs chemo NOW!!! Her quack doc still says she can't do his diet and the chemo-just one or the other....and he says his diet WILL cure it-it's just whether it will cure her before she damn well dies!!! I'm so angry with quacks who charge vulnerable people thousands of pounds for their quackery. It's not as it she can afford it!The other problem is, she is taking so many pills a day (200ish) that they are filling her up, so she's just not eating.She has gone from a size 16 to an 8 within 12 months...

Hi SRM, ok, here are my thoughts on this. To be honest it depends upon how terminal her illness is. Do her doctors think chemo will possibly cure her or just buy her more time?

When mum had her breast cancer she knew that it was going to kill her. She did have chemo but that made her so sick, to be honest that itself almost killed her. She was taking tamoxifen which also made her sick. The doctors kept saying that at best they expected her to live for 12-24 months. Her cancer had spread, the lymph nodes were all cancerous on her left breast and all she was told to do was sit and wait for the next tumour to show up before the doctors could treat her.

She started taking some quack shark tablets which she got from a website in the US, it was sold to her with massive promises. She also followed some nonsense diet and it all cost an absolute fortune.

At the time I kept thinking she was being robbed blind by people who were selling her crap for a small fortune, capitalising on her illness and I was furious. She stopped taking the tamoxifen and quit chemo. She died a few weeks later.

Now, looking back, I realise that she was never going to get better. I never really thought she would die to be honest until the day it happened out of the blue. Then I realised after I found her diary that when she was spending all of that money on these diets and supplements that she wasn't buying a cure, she was buying hope. Something the medical profession had taken from her bit by bit. The entries she made when she first got her pills from the US were full of thoughts about what she would do when she felt better and how she was going to beat this b*stard disease.

I stopped being angry at those people because even though the outcome was inevitable, endless rounds of chemo would have left her unable to move from her bed and bleeding from every inch of her body.

The last entry she made read 'I know I probably won't see my children's future or the grandbabies they haven't made yet, but I will keep trying and hoping, I owe my kids that'. She passed away 3 days later.

So, my advice is to listen to your friend and try to think about what she is actually buying with this diet. If her cancer might be cured with a couple of rounds of chemo then yes, she should absolutely have the treatment. But if the outcome isn't going to be good regardless of medical intervention then personally I would try to support her decision and let her see you are hopeful for her and her diet too. Almost certainly the diet won't do a thing to cure her but if it helps her to enjoy the time she has left then that is priceless.

Hugs to you, I feel so sad for all of you. This is a cruel and evil disease and I hope with all of my heart your friend can recover.

becky_rtw

Wooooo thats a huge un!!! (where's notty when you need him )

redsquirrel80

sallyx wrote: »

lets cut them off then..didn't like them much anyway

Euww, I think I'd rather pay the extra leg charge than have some sawn off ones in my bag - be a bit messy:rotfl:

becky_rtw

You know in the idle wonderings of my mind - I've often wondered what ryanair would do about that south african guy and his spring legs - would they charge them as 'sports equipment'...??

bank_of_slate

Ooh I do like it when the postie brings something nice - He just brought my free ikkle bokkle of coffee Baileys :T
...Linda xx