Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?

well a bit late but happy Valentine’s Day!!!here’s a great recipe. I’m making it for my breakfast tomorrow

Valentine’s Day Smoothie with Whipped Cream and Heart Sprinkles💖

Ingredients:
• 1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
• 1 ripe banana
• 1 cup milk (regular, almond, or oat)
• 1/2 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon honey or sugar (optional)
• Whipped cream (for garnish)
• Heart-shaped sprinkles (for garnish)

Preparation:

1. In a blender, combine the strawberries, banana, milk, yogurt, and vanilla extract. Add honey or sugar if you prefer a sweeter smoothie.
2. Blend on high speed until smooth and creamy.
3. Pour the smoothie into a fancy glass.
4. Top with whipped cream.
5. Add heart-shaped sprinkles for a special, romantic touch.
6. Serve and enjoy this deliciously sweet drink, perfect for Valentine’s Day!

Good morning. I am a huge fan of strawberries and bananas as well. I don't like any brown spots on the bananas though, but otherwise, canary, I think you picked a winner.

I woke up last night after falling asleep (sometime after 11:30) to lightning and clapping thunder and lots or rain. It got a lot quieter after a few minutes, but it is still raining this a.m. Thank goodness, just a little and not like the late night pour down. Hmmm, another gray day.

Got most things done here and our puzzle of the San Diego Boardwalk done. So, we are out of puzzles again. I have been getting most of them from Goodwill, but slim lately. Our table won't hold more than an 800-piece puzzle or less. Leaves half a table for your pieces and half for actually assembling it. It's always fun, even though we have had puzzles missing pieces and some with too many pieces.

Nothing special for us today. I'm grateful for my day but have to admit not too well inspired for the gray of it.

Pretty typical this time of year. Sounds like 42 degrees today so no ice or snow, but that could come later in the coming week.

Hope you all have a good day.

We had the first snowstorm of the winter yesterday. More expected today and tomorrow. Monday night temp predicted at -18 deg. Finished this revision.

I sort of think the farther out you are if you have to use your bad arm the better. I have had to do it a couple of times, but try to make sure that the other arm is used if possible and it almost always is. Sorry to hear about your Dh. Hope all your tests are fine and the dental appt. not too strenuous. Sounds like a busy week.

Wren, I'm sorry you're feeling down for good reason. Your dental appointment reminds me that I need to make an appointment and bite the bullet for getting a crown. The "bullet" is mostly the expense as well as the discomfort.

We had a classic thunderstorm last night with thunder and lightning that lit up the house.

Happy Sunday to all.

We had a storm yesterday. It cooled things down. It was 48 when I went to the Dermatologist. No skin issues. Yay.

The strawberry smoothie looks yummy.

Illinois lady I hear you about sugar, tobacco and caffeine addiction. Most need to go cold turkey to lick those addictions. Harm reduction would say anything in moderation is ok. I love coffee but decreased to 8-20 ounce a day. Mostly latte! So not much actual coffee in that. Each of us have our own journey though so I avoid being too preachy. Speaking of journeys Friday I meet my medical oncologist a female. Yay and on Mar 4 thr radiation oncologist will call me. Also female!!! Love women in business. I have a good friend coming with me Friday and then we are going out for brunch!!! 835 am appointment. Ugh.

I’ll post more when I know my treatment plan. Reading lots though.
Here is Miss Dusty

Good Morning. Well, we did not get overnight snow. It waited until this morning to start — right around 5 a.m. No idea how long it will go on. We had appts. to go get blood draws, but I think we will cancel out and not go. My daughter went to work and Ron takes her. Blood draws are 20 miles away in Mt. Vernon and we really don't want to risk vehicles on bad roads. While Dh and I easily drove through ALL kinds of weather while working we no longer feel any need to do what we REALLY don't have too.

We need Ron to go after Kate, after work and have the right vehicle — so we will just wait.

Nothing will be on our schedules today for sure with this weather. Winter has definitely found us this year after so many yrs. of predictions for bad winters. Long range forecast for the following week shows us in the 50's. This is Feb. in south central Illinois. Well, it will sure be welcome if it does reach into the 50's. No idea how much snow we will end up with. It is really small flakes coming down for now but pretty consistently coming down. Sounds like it will be going all day. Eek.

Hope you all have a good day.

Well, I turned down a stereo tomographic type of imaging in preparation for my surgery. The simple mammo showed mild density, yes, so what? And more imaging necessary. With major groans, I scheduled imaging in the city. I did the stereo image thingy, and they kept me to do some ultrasound. I was beginning to wonder if something really suspicious was showing up. Getting nervous. Nervous. All it was, was that he wanted to map the scar tissue calcifications from the lift, so that I would be safer with simple mammos in the future. 😕 Happy, though, that they decided on the compromise.

Nice set. And that moose-head is better than the real thing!! 😂

Wow !! A gorgeous sun, all the way out today. Only due to get up to 16 degrees so not sure how much the solar boost will be able to do at those numbers, but by Sunday we are to be around 44 and higher yet through the week. That will be going in the right direction to suit me — even more so if a nice sun is hanging in the sky.

You all have been a mite quiet. Likely due to the subject we don't have much to say about around here. We do at times make light references since politics and religion do impact us now and then, but it does tend to easily cause misunderstandings and more and we know well we are better off keeping it light and somewhat impersonal so we don't upset a carefully structured balance here.

I will say we are in some difficult times at present and one can only hope that a positive solution comes about as we are mainly Seniors or close to that range here. Not to say we would not welcome all who wish to be here, but most of us here are retired and depending on Social Security etc.

Hope you are all well - and I do know we have two lucky (I hope they are not experiencing any un-pleasantries) members on vacation and I think missing a lot of yucky weather. I likely have mentioned it more than once, but I have only taken a couple of vacations in my married life. We became rescuers and too difficult and expensive to train someone for a short but costly time, so I always stayed home, and Dh went on vacation by himself. I think I'm too old to get into the habit now, but fact is — we still have more animals than most would ever dream of. 7 cats and 1 dog. At the zenith though we had about 35 cats and 6 dogs. Really, almost a full-time job. I hate to say they never got all the love they could have used, but they were in off the street, all "fixed" and any health issues addressed. Always well fed and safe inside.

Glad that we don't have so much 'animal' work now though when it has become sometimes a struggle to get some of the normal daily chores done. You have to retire from paying jobs and sometime or other you need to retire from some of the ideals that sustained you for a long time. There are others like me so the slack will have to pass to someone else for the majority.

Have a beautiful day.

Canarycat, I didn't realize you are Canadian. DH and I did a lot of rv travel in Canada and love the country and the people. He said during recent years that he would move to Canada except for the winters.

He has a dermatologist appointment at 11:30 so I will be driving him. I also need to buy chicken and smoked sausage to make gumbo for dinner tonight. Good cold weather food.

Happy Thursday to everyone.

I didn't seem to catch it either about Canary and Canada. My first husband's mother was French Canadian and though we all lived in Detroit, there was a Canadian family in Amherstburg to visit and we did it a fair amt. too. I too was always impressed (mainly with the summer weather) when there and it was always neat to get change back from a purchase as American money was worth more there. Also, unique to me was the fact that there were no bars like we have here but you had to go to a hotel to have a couple. I would not have minded in the least living there. It seemed so much more laid back then Detroit.

Bright sunny day here again which is great. We did have some minor melting in yesterday's sun and I'm sure will have it again today. It doesn't seem to be making much of a dent, but with the warming temps. starting on Sunday and going through next week, I hope to be nearly snowless again. Hard to say it that will be it for snow this season since we are in fact having a snow — rather than rain winter at long last.

We have had on the rare occasion as much as 14 ins. come down in the first week of Apr. It is generally warm enough then though that it melts rather quickly. I am definitely thing spring-time pinks, greens and yellow though — even as I look at all the white snow outside. I am ready.

Waving hi to all and still hoping our vacationers are doing well.