Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
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Mary: That recipe sounds delicious. I love peanut butter and it is a lunch staple since I have stopped most lunch meats. Growing up it was a Friday lunch being raised Catholic (better than a cheese sandwich which I still can't eat) but never lost my love for it. I do prefer the superchunk over the smooth though.
My DBF used to make a dark chocolate cake with PB icing which was always a hit at our annual summer picnic. Since her husband became ill with Lewy Body dementia and Parkinson's, the picnics have stopped and I do miss seeing her. Covid put a stop to our visits so we have been visiting on the phone which is not quite the same. Last face to face was at my mother's funeral luncheon in 2020.
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Welcome a-friend. We lived in Houston for 16 years and have obviously been through Katy. I don't remember stopping there.
I agree about Big Bend national park. That's where we slept in our VW but with the door open and woke up to a line of buzzards sitting on the table waiting to see whether we were going to move. Next night we had a place in the high campground, so none there. We also put up our tent which may have helped.
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Although many of us probably didn't get a thorough education in the value of a positive attitude, we can teach ourselves. Simply by making a decision to look for the good, happy, and beautiful in all things and all people, you will have completed the first and most important step in learning to accentuate the positive.
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Wren, loved your buzzard story. Have to admit it sounded just a tad freaky though. Carole, my p-nut butter pie is not a baked one. A lot of people think it is rich. I think it has more to do with how big of a slice you take.
P-nut Butter Pie
8 oz. cr. cheese, soft
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup p-nut butter, smooth or crunchy
1 tsp. vanilla
8 oz. tub of Cool Whip.
Stir all together and put into graham cracker crust. I like to drizzle caramel syrup and Hershey's chocolate over the top. Keep refrigerated. I am a p-nut butter fan
Weather was nice today so I did car detailing all day long. I will have to do the wheels tomorrow since it got dark on me. Had some new liquid that my cousin showed me. You just spray it on, take a soft sm. cloth and spread it a bit, then take a second no lint cloth and lightly buff -- no hard rubbing and it just gleams. So I did that too. First time since I broke my arm in late'19 that I did the whole car at once. Looks like a brand new car again and nice to do it all at once again.
That gave me an excuse to have a pizza supper which is a rate treat but I wore myself out.
Hope you all had a nice day.
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Welcome a-friend. Isn't Katy near Dallas?
I'm back from visiting our daughter - got back at midnight Sunday after being awake 26 hours. Wonderful trip. Yesterday, I was so jet lagged - could barely think. This morning I feel good. Time to get back into a regular routine. I have a busy 2 weeks till I return for the 21-22 school year.
Stay cool - we are due for rain which is really needed. To many 100 degree days this summer. Have a great day.
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Wren, got a laugh out of the buzzard story.
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Great story about the buzzards. Do you remember Beaky Buzzard from the cartoons?
Thanks for sharing the peanut butter pie recipe. Sounds like something my family would love.
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Similar. The crust is crushed Oreos (minus filling), the filling is a similar recipe, with a ganache on top. Somewhat richer. A small piece goes a very long way.
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In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
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Another long day for me. Maybe we will have something easy for dinner. We are having an ant problem here. I thought they were coming in due to the rain, but it no longer is raining and is fairly dry out. They still keep coming. They have invaded one of my cabinets. It has food in it but they are not bothering the food. They are strange ants. They are quite small as well. Oh well, some terro ant traps hopefully will get us ant free in a couple of days.
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Welcome a-friend. Step son and his family live in Allen. They were married in McKinney and in-laws live in Lucas. We may have driven thru your area on our way from Allen to FL but I’d need to look at a map!
We’re out on Cape Cod, with what feels like a ton of stuff. Monday we took the ferry to Nantucket to spend the day and absolutely loved it. Today was supposed to be sunny but wasn’t, so we screwed up on the days to travel vs a beach day. Calling for rain tomorrow afternoon. Hoping to get to the beach early but 4 of us out the door, may or may not happen.
I’m trying to enjoy doing anything really, upcoming surgery weighing on me. I’ve waffled in my head about surgery vs no surgery. It needs to be fixed and putting it off only puts me at risk for total avulsion. (hamstring 80-90% tore off). Part of my waffling is being stuck flat on my back, no sitting on the incision. Even with BC surgery I could sit, use a toilet ok, and in general get around. I am going to ask about the knee scooter! On FB proximal hamstring group and it sounds like no weight bearing doesn’t mean not kneeling I’m calling Friday for the surgery time and will ask then.
Wherever you may be may your weather be mellow. I think my weather at home is better than my weather on vacation. And the weather at our FL house is downright nasty, looked like a monsoon hitting in a video a neighbor sent. Enjoy!
PS -Sandy, my hair is so thin that every other day is a must shampoo I can push it out maybe to a third day but it better be a day when no one sees me. LOL. I think as women we pick ourselves apart. No one really has a concern in the world about my hair but me, so it’s all in my own head. Tonight I did turn my niece onto “Its a 10” so another customer converted.
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I know I'm more bothered about my bald spot than anyone else is, but I am. So...have acquired quite a hat collection which I really enjoy. I have one friend who loves to shop and has found me several cute ones too. And everyone knows to look for a hat if they are looking for me.
Hot and humid in the desert but at least we have gotten some rain. Last year it was a "nonsoon" and there is a significant drought.
With the Covid numbers going up, we've decided we're afraid to fly so our usual summer visit to our daughter's in Maine is on hold again. Ken has more medical tests in Sept. and we'll assess where he and the country is after that.
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Good morning, ladies. We had storms, yesterday, that dumped about 7" of rain and caused considerable flooding. More storms this morning. I could not get my hair cut due to the storms which caused a sewer backup at the salon. I am waiting to see if they will reopen today.
Loved the buzzard story.
Thanks for the p-nut butter story. I love PBJ.
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Petite: I hope your leg is on the way to healing.
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Taco, A friend and I were at a Christmas fair and were looking at fleece hats for someone undergoing chemo. The merchant heard us talking and told us that the hat was free for the woman getting chemo. What a sweet thing to do and totally unexpected.
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Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.
In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless.
Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you. -Rachel Naomi Remen0 -
My stylist wouldn't let me pay for my buzz cut or the trims when mine was growing back either. Particularly as we age, everyone knows someone who is making or has made this journey. I am so glad I was open about my diagnosis. Got support from so many. I was actually more comfortable with my bald head than I am now. One of these days I suspect I will just shave it off again.
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Another long day today. Had to go to Marion for my CT and check-in with Dr. Dave, my Pulmonologist. There was no change and if things remain as they are now, after my next CT. I may be able to stop seeing Dr. Dave. I will have to continue having the CT's at least once a yr. since other things are being watched but won't have to see Dr. Dave if the next CT shows no real change in the lung nodule. It will be nice to cut down on my list. I hope at some point soon to be able to drop the Urologist too. Here's hoping. I'll be working soon on another fancy urine test and another deep scope as well. This is the time of yr. where all the check-ups take place so lots of medical things going on. Be glad when I get through with it all.
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Welcome, a-friend. My future DDIL (Gordy's fiancee) is from Katy...as, of course, is Renee Zellweger. I believe MinusTwo and Illimae are both in the Houston area.
Been dry and delightful (high 70s-low 80s) here for days now...so I'm watering the tomatoes and using the lawn sprinkler every other day. Lost about 1/2 dozen tomatoes to "blossom-end rot" (they look fine at the top half but turn them over and...yeccch). It's caused by a combination of calcium deficiency in the soil and being allowed to ripen while sopping wet from rain or sloppy watering. I discovered a way to ensure only the soil gets wet is to fill a gallon jug with water and carefully pour it into the pot. (Did I mention I grow my tomatoes in containers on my deck to confound the squirrels)?
Storms coming in late tomorrow night, though, and lasting through the weekend into Monday. And the heat & humidity will soar again. Here we go again. As long as the basement stays dry, the trees keep standing and the tomato plants don't get wind-trashed, I'll accept not being able to dine outdoors.
(Lost that last paragraph when Happy decided to monopolize me and walk all over the keyboard while nuzzling me, rendering me unable to see anything but his furry not-so-little body smashed up against my face).
Had a pleasant surprise yesterday at my weigh-in: I lost 5 lbs. 10 more to go to reach my pre-pregnancy weight! (Nice to be back in my size 10s again). All spring & summer long I'd whine about why I couldn't eat like normal people--until I learned my weight-control NP has not only celiac disease but Type 1 diabetes. The key to getting a handle on my weight seems to be timing: don't eat when I can't burn it off, so nothing after 10pm (I go to sleep late, sleep in, and eat brunch rather than breakfast & lunch). And no more carb-snacking. Not even "keto-friendly" cereal late at night. Bob usually comes downstairs in the middle of the night to snack--usually matzo & cheese, or cookies. No wonder he can't lose weight.
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Today I was able to get my total shower-to-finished 'do time to about 20 minutes. Key was to keep the conditioner on a full 5 minutes, towel dry (changing towels twice), detangle with a wide-tooth wooden comb (came with the boar-bristle brush), then section my hair to apply the Liquid Glass generously from roots to ends. Quick rough-dry (no nozzle) with my fingers on lowest speed & heat. Then attach the concentrator, switch to medium-low heat and use the large round ("Full-Pint") brush--this time holding it out away from my face and use more tension. After everything was dry (but still wavy-ish and threatening to frizz, I re-sectioned and finished with the heated "Crush Brush," using tension and going slowly. No flatiron or finishing spray necessary.
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Good morning, ladies. More rain today. It is flooding where is has never flooded, before. This is not from the Gulf, it is from the sky. I have a dental appointment. I hope the drive is not too wet.
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Do not sell your soul in exchange of anything. This is the only thing you have brought into this world. And the only thing you can take back. ~ Rumi
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Working pretty good today. Bill paying time so I got five ready for dispersal this afternoon. Did it this a.m. ( when I usually do my posting here ) before I went to town to take care of my friend. Then Dh came down so we could run over to the mechanics shop. Hoping he could drive my car and maybe diagnose the noise ( sounds like something loose ) underneath. I have to return on Saturday.
Weather will get worse through the week-end and probably go at least into Wednesday. After a couple of rather outstanding days ( almost cool ) we will go back into moisture ( don't know how much for sure ) and more humidity. Well, I'm grateful for the nice days we had and they were all the more enjoyable coming after what seemed like a massive time period of lots of heat and humidity. I hope we don't have to wait quite so long after this next round.
Son-in-law is working wonders on our front yard. I'm really pleased. Not only did he take out the stumps ( you can't tell a tree or stump was ever where they were ) but he also found areas of thick grass, removed some and planted it where the stumps had been filling in the round bare dirt area. He also took my vinca gr. cover and redistributed it pretty much the same way filling in the area I've worked on now for several yrs. What a joy. He is quite good with yard work and like a lot of men ( even Dh at one time ) has many abilities for around the house, garage and yard. Gives me much hope that we won't have to keep calling the handy man all the time now. That will be an enormous blessing as well as saving us a bit of money.
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We're 82 now with cooling and possible rain in the forecast. I really hope the rain shows up. Everything is really dry and getting crispy. We had thunder the other evening and some places to the east got rain. For a moment after the thunder I could smell rain, but we didn't get any.
I'm trying to decide whether to go ahead and make up the masks that are cut out and waiting. We have several but these are 4 ply and the design leaves breathing room and don't suck into your mouth. More comfortable but sewing is hard on my neck and back so I've been waiting to see.
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There are now 2 variants and Illinois has mandates in operation again. As I travel around town it appears to me that not too many people are heeding the mandate. I don't know if that info will help you Wren since there is a lot of distance between us and I'm not aware of the amt. of compliance in your area, but I think if we get more than one variant there may a good possibility that there may be more mandates coming. Just where and for how long is the question. I had high hopes and will keep hoping that a lot more people will get over their reluctance. That's really all I will say since we don't want to get too heavy and accidentally get this morphed into politics seeping in.
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People in my county have been getting vaccinated and mask compliance was pretty good also. Other parts of the state have behaved otherwise. Now they're saying that the smoke from the fires makes it easier to catch covid. I guess the lungs are already irritated from the smoke.
We're supposed to go from the 80's to the 70's tomorrow. I think it will. The breeze coming in my study window is a lot cooler.
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Foresee insult, and make of it compliment, for it is cleverer to avoid insult than to avenge it. It is a great trick to make friends of those who wished to be rivals, and to turn into protectors of your honor those who threatened its injury. . . time for insult is taken from them, who must fill it with thanks giving. It is to know how to live to be able to convert pain into pleasure—what was to have been pain, transform into trust. -Baltasar Gracian
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Today was our last nice dry seasonally-mild (75-80) day. Tomorrow the mercury starts to climb...and so will the thunderheads. System coming down from Ontario will rotate the next few days--at its worst we may get severe storms (again) and heat indices into the triple-digits. We made it home from an al fresco dinner tonight just ahead of the thunder-showers (that knocked out my high-def TV signal--words cannot express how strange it is to watch two blurry teams of squashed Munchkins playing basketball).
CDC is suggesting giving third mRNA doses to immunocompromised patients: taking anti-rejection drugs after transplants, powerful anti-inflammatories for autoimmune diseases and biologics and immunotherapy for metastatic cancers, patients undergoing radiation or w/in 3 mos. post-chemo, and those with myeloid cancers. Though being 70 would get me a third shot in the EU or Israel, not here.
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They haven't given their final decision on over 70. It is still possible. I would think that over 70 is such a large number of people that supply would not meet demand: we are next on the list once the people most at risk get theirs.
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A person's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein,
and will continue to produce their kind.
Just as gardeners cultivate their plots, keeping them free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which they require, so may a person tend the garden of his or her mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a person sooner or later discovers that he or she is the master-gardener of his or her soul, the director of his or her life. -James Allen0
