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Somehow I managed to not just catch the cough-flu that’s been going around, but I got the stomach-flu at the same time (a double-bonus, I suppose), so the past few days it’s been really tough to find anything to eat.\u00a0 Tea, broth, a bit of palak paneer, and a few spoonfuls of farmer’s cheese are all that have sounded good to me.<\/p>\n

Added to my under-the-weather feelings, my two foster cats haven’t been feeling well either.\u00a0 Vasia, the crazy English shorthair<\/a> with the wicked yellow eyes has been particularly ill, and the news I received at the vet today was not positive.\u00a0 Right now he’s recovering from a nasty flesh wound and an infection, but it also looks as though he has an aggressive form of cancer.<\/p>\n

Ugh.\u00a0 A day full of sick for as I’ve been trying to keep Vasia’s wound clean in between bouts of nap for me.\u00a0 I don’t know if I’m more physically or emotionally exhausted at the moment.\u00a0 Both, probably.<\/p>\n

After thinking about every possible combination of food that might possibly sound good to eat, I settled on an old favorite: peaches and cornbread<\/a> (sans ice cream this time–there’s no way that I could stomach that level of richness right now).\u00a0 So I ran a quick errand to the market to buy the makings of that meal.\u00a0 While there I also picked up a head of broccoli.\u00a0 Because it just looked good to me, too.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until after I got home and was unloading the groceries that a memory surfaced from more than 25 years ago.\u00a0 When I was a cancer patient and had those nausea-chemo days when nothing sounded or smelled tasty (at all), my uncle would blend up either a concoction of fresh peaches (from his garden!) with semolina or a mixture of broccoli with cheese, and bring them to the hospital for me.\u00a0 I never grew tired of either of those, and they added a lot of calories to my diet when I most needed them–back in those days when I weighed 70 lbs and was so thin that even sitting in a chair was too painful on my spine and tailbone (because there was no padding between skin and bone).<\/p>\n

The cornbread is cooking in the oven right now and smells wonderful…*<\/p>\n

*update: it smelled better than it tasted to me, but I was able to eat a serving.\u00a0 Now, back to napping…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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