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Golden,

My grandparents watched Lawrence Welk every week! My younger brother and I always laughed at the bubbles! Grandpa loved to Waltz and they enjoyed the dancers on the show.

I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and was in love with them. They played at City Park in New Orleans when I was 9 years old. I begged to go. Tickets were $4.00! My parents wouldn’t take me 😔. They said that they didn’t want to be around all of the screaming girls. I told them that I wanted to be one of those screaming girls.

Elvis was on Ed Sullivan. Tons of performers went on his show.

My grandparents alternated watching Bishop Sheen and Billy Graham on television.

Grandpa loved watching baseball. His favorite team was the Yankees. Grandma loved her soap operas! I never did watch those but my mom loved The Young and the Restless.
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😃😃 heck, Lawrence Welk? Watched it every Saturday evening when caring for mom and L. They loved it! Wonder if it is still on PBS?

The Beatles? And their crazy screaming fans! My poor dad took a friend and I to see HELP in a theatre. OMG! The screaming drove me nuts and of course my friend was one of them! I remember dad shushing her but not what happened after that. I wonder if she stopped. We were sitting in the first row of the balcony so that probably made it louder and even more uncomfortable!
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Glad,

Funny! I have never screamed in a theater. My parents took us to see The Beatles movies at the drive in theaters. Remember those?
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There are actually some drive-ins open here. There is a company that was working towards reopening the one here and they were talking of doing it in conjunction with a microbrewery.
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Must get to the store this.morning, coffee and breakfast burrito. We have not had much snow for awhile. But, it is coming in and the wind is blowing! Just get chili out! Why does spell check change must to just?!

Must get some garbanzos to toast and see how they are as a crunchy chip substitute.
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Even though it's been around since 2008 I keep forgetting we have a stat holiday on Monday. The town website promises snowshoeing, but the snow here has almost all melted - yay!
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NeedHelpWithMom, rising hand..... "The Young & the Restless" fan here since the 1970's. Even hubby is hooked on it as the older characters are corporate world.

The main reason I started watching that soap opera was because my Mom-in-Law watched it, and it helped me to start communicating with her about the plot lines when I was first married. Even after the divorce from her son in the 1990's, she insisted I remain one of her best friends :) We continued to talk soap opera for 25 years more.
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Glad, peas are a good crunchy snack too. I, especially, like mine with wasabi - crunchy, satisfying and spicy.
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I will keep the peas in mind, thanks, ITRR.

Well that trip to the grocery was sensory OVERLOAD for me! Either everyone is out readying for the snow, or last minute shopping for Valentine's and kids out of school today? I have no idea, but strange! Then the wind certainly didn't help!

And of course the grocery is in the process of rearranging the store. They are preparing to add table wines to the shelves as they can now be sold in every grocery. I am sure I forgot half of what I went in for.
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Happy Galentine's-Palentine's Day to all the nice folks on AC. XOXO

I'm not doing anything. No beau. But I'll buy 1/2 price chocolates tomorrow, so it's definitely a worthwhile holiday. 😁
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Happy Valentine's Day to you too, Ali, and all here.💝🍫💘
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Yes, Happy V D to everybody on here!
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Happy Valentine's to all! Nothing going on here either. I did have one of those Tillamook ice cream sammies, though. The grocery was out of my favorite Blue Bunny mini cones!😟😟
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I can't believe 'Happy VD'!
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Love is in the air
Today's day starts with a V
Eat chocolate if you dare
Compassionate care is key = Ll, 2/14/23
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Happy Venereal Disease? I just realized how that could be misinterpreted. LOL
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Enjoy your outbreaks everybody! LOL
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Hubs & I were at my MIL's facility last night for their Valentine's Day fancy restaurant-style dinner. During dinner one of the residents apparently either choked on his food or had a heart attack. I didn't realize what was happening until I saw 2 cops and then the EMTs come in. They had him on the floor performing CPR. The poor staff had to stand there holding up privacy sheets around the activity. Our family was seated close to the stage facing the entertainment (a violin player). They asked her to keep playing because she could see everything from the stage and was very shook up but the show went on. The man actually passed away right there. I'm thankful my MIL was blissfully unaware since her back was to the action the entire time and the music drowned out other sounds. Also thankfully (I think?), that man's family was not there at this dinner. He was a long-time NH resident, a retired doctor who founded a hospital in our area. More than anything I was astonished that he must not have had a DNR, as I watched them do CPR for quite a while. He went out between the tables on a gurney with a sheet over his face. Not your average Valentine's Day...I felt so sad for the staff because not only were they (and volunteers) working so hard to pull off this event, but they were shook up and mourning the sudden loss of this man whom they all knew well, like family. Kiss, hug or call your LO today if you can!
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Had a crazy dream last night that I died my silver hair back to my original auburn color. LOL 😆

In the hospital waiting area right now. Hubby is having a colonoscopy done. Needless to say, my husband didn’t have a great Valentine’s Day!

I do love that hospitals have coffee shops in them. Just ordered my morning cup of coffee since I don’t have time for coffee before leaving home.
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Where is Bridget? How is she doing?
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So, my husband had a kind of weird colonoscopy.

The doctor removed three polyps and saw a fourth one on his appendix but couldn’t remove it so he now has to have his appendix removed.

I was all for the home colonoscopy testing before which we usually do but it’s definitely better that he went in for the standard colonoscopy.

The last time that I did the home test it showed blood so I had to do the standard colonoscopy. It was a bleeding polyp, nothing serious.
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Submitted the Medicaid app online moments ago! Whhoooo!!

Now to upload a dozen+ supporting documents.
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It’s really fun to people watch. Today in the hospital waiting room they had the sweetest little old lady who was looking at dog rescues. She said that she missed her dog terribly. She had to put her down and desperately wanted a new pooch.

I admire her for getting a new dog. After having to put two of my beloved dogs down, I can’t bring myself to get another one and go through that again.

Most people young and old are scrolling through their phones. The magazines are hardly ever read these days in waiting rooms.

I remember telling a friend of mine that I would occasionally pick up a magazine to read in the waiting room at the hospital. She told me that she never read them because of the germs from the sick people. LOL 😆 She’s a nurse. I can be a germ freak too but I never thought about not reading a magazine.
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Geaton, that's so sad. I'm glad your LO didn't see what was going on.
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So, I started thinking about my older brother after my husband’s colonoscopy today. He’s had so many heart issues and continues to. So, he has put off having colonoscopies.

I called him and told him that my husband had no symptoms and ended up having three polyps removed and then the weird thing where the fourth polyp went inside of his appendix. The doctor couldn’t remove it and said that it was fortunate that he saw the polyp and that it didn’t go unnoticed.

So, the only way to remove the polyp is to remove the appendix. He said that the polyp cannot stay in there. All polyps have to be removed so they can send them off to the lab. Strange going in for a routine colonoscopy and hearing that he needs an appendectomy!

Anyway, my brother said that he was having some symptoms and went to the doctor. My brother is 70 and has never had a colonoscopy! His doctor wasn’t happy about it and he scheduled one for him.

It’s upsetting because my other brother has had colon cancer.

I can’t remember what the age is for the first screening but I remember that Katie Couric brought attention to the disease because her husband died at a relatively young age with colon cancer. My younger brother nearly died with it. If caught early enough it can be successfully treated.

Schedule your colonoscopy appointments!
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Aversion to getting a colonoscopy is a big reason it is recommended to get the FIT test instead - it's non invasive and inexpensive and if problems are detected people are likely not going to turn down a colonoscopy.
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cw,

What is the FIT test? Is that the home test? Here it’s called Cologuard.
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fecal immunochemical test (FIT) - Cologuard is a brand name
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cw,

Oh, okay.

My doctor said okay to the home test at first. Hubby and I both did that. She doesn’t like only the home test. She says that a person should do a colonoscopy to have a better look.
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Yes I know you Americans like doing routine colonoscopies.
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