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Re: Fighting Breast Cancer With Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Paula O: I write children's recipe books and owned a bakery (which I sold 3 years ago). Because of the darn cancer I started working on a recipe book taking favorite dishes and cravings into healthier dishes. I am co-writing it with two others, a food editor and another cook. Here's a wonderful recipe for chocolate cake that cuts on a lot of the not so great stuff (Not my recipe but one I love to make, I'm still tweaking mine):
Cake:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
3/4 sugar (or Truvia)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
2 tblsp unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 tblsp brewed coffee or espresso
1/2 cup baby food prunes
2 egg whites
1 whole egg
1/2 ounce bittersweet chocolate (or 90% chocolate)
Preheat oven at 300 degrees
Spray a 10" round pan with vegetable oil spray and lightly dust with cocoa
Sift together dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl
In a small bowl mix applesauce, milk, extract, coffee, prunes, egg whites and egg. Pour into dry ingredients and stir until combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Spread batter in prepared pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
When cake is cool, cut through disc to make two discs. Spread "cream cheese" buttercream inside and outside.
Buttercream recipe:
1/2 pound Neufchatel cream cheese
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
Combine all ingredients in a bowl until nice an smooth.
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DX 10/2011
PET Scan + MRI 10/2011
Lumpectomy 11/11/11
Stage 2B +++ ER+(10%), PR+(5%), HER2+++(1 positive node, 1 micromets to second node)
AC started 12/2011 ended 1/2012
Taxol + Herceptin weekly for 12 weeks ended 4/2012
30 zaps of radiation done 6/2012
Tamoxifen 6/2012
every 3 weeks of Herceptin for another year.
Metformin Trial 8/12
10/12 MRI- CLEAR
01/13 BRAIN MRI- CLEAR!
01/13 Neck MRI- CLEAR!
FINISHED HERCEPTIN 1/9/2013...Woot Woot
Starting Walter Reed Vaccine Trial 2/13
CT Scans + ultrasound of abdomen CLEAR-5/13
02/2015 through 11/2015 emergency D&Cs for Tamoxifen induced uterine polyps which caused uncontrollable hemorrhaging
12/2015 blood clot to left leg caused by Tamoxifen. No longer taking it. On Xarelto, a blood thinner
12/2015 Ablation to prevent hemorrhaging from potential issues with Tamoxifen residue in my system
1/2016 continuing journey without hormonal therapy. Reevaluating the option of a hysterectomy and oopherectomy.
4/1/2018 2mm stroke. Yes, stroke! No cause ever found but they believe it was a migraine that went bonkers and created a tiny clot. No deficits. I was back to normal with 24hrs. Now on baby aspirin for life.
7/27/2018 hysterectomy and oopherectomy
01/07/2019 Mastectomy and expanders put in
3/22/2019 Vtach, almost died. Cause unknown.
7/22/2019 New perky boobs put in
7/21/2020 Off of all drugs but a baby aspirin because of the stroke in 2018.
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