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11-30-2009, 07:19 PM
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Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
Happy holidays everyone! Here is a little something to cheer you up if the Eggnog is too calorie laden. You know who you are:
Jolly Tini Recipe
Ingredients:
4 ounces Finlandia vodka infused with apple-flavored Jolly Ranchers*
¾ ounce fresh sweet-and-sour mix
1 maraschino cherry for garnish
*To infuse vodka, place 18 Jolly Ranchers in a 750-ml bottle of vodka. Let stand until the candies dissolve, about 24 hours, rotating the bottle 2 to 3 times.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add infused vodka and sweet-and-sour mix. Stir vigorously and strain into a big martini glass.
Add a sprig of holly for the festive touch. Careful how you sip!
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Live in the moment.
MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~
Found suspicious lump 9/2000
Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement
Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR -
Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds
36 rads - very little burning
3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum
Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED!
2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa
Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18
All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET
Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying
Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa
Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?)
2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava
2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec.
Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011
STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer
7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones
Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED
2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED.
Same news for 2016 and all of 2017.
Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.
Last edited by StephN; 12-05-2009 at 11:31 PM..
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12-17-2009, 10:37 AM
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
This post is for Steph who is a real sweety by anyone's standards and shouldn't be left ignored.
Jolly Ranchers are the bomb! I don't drink anymore but if I did, I'd make three of Jolly Rancher-tinis. Two for me and Colleen and one to sneak at night when everyone else is asleep.
Or I could just go to the 7-11 and get 2 bags of Jolly Ranchers, leave one for the kids (vultures) and hide the rest for me and Colleen. I would hide it in the bunny bowl but I am almost due for my monthly bowl of cereal, although Jolly Rancher Trix would be so awesome we would need to import some awesome from Canada.
Or smuggle it in.
Lee
Founding Member of Consumers without Borders
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This happened to Colleen:
Diagnosed in September 2007
ER-/PR-/HER2 Neu+++ 2.1 cm x .9 cm spicluted tumor with three fingers, Stage 2B
Sentinal node biopsy and lymph node removal with 3/18 positive in October 2007
4 TAC infusions
lumpectomy March 2008, bad margins
Re-excision on June 3rd, 2008 with clean margins
Fitted for compression sleeve July 16, 2008
Started the first of two TCH infusions August 14, 2008
Done with chemo and now a member of the blue dot club 9/17/08
Starting radiation October 1, 2008
life is still on hold
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12-17-2009, 06:33 PM
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
Kinda reminds me when they banned drinking at the beach while I was in college.
1. Purchase a full size watermelon.
2. Carefully cut a 1 1/2" square plug.
3. Remove plug
4. Open vodka, rum, gin or any liquor.
5. Invert bottle into watermelon, let sit overnight.
6. In the AM remove bottle, mix any remainig liquor with
Weaties, eat for breakfast, bring watermelon to beach.
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12-17-2009, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Hershey, PA. Live The Sweet Life!
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
Lee,
I nearly peed my pants over your post! The vultures! Ha! Can I relate! Seriously, you cracked me up!
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Smile On!
Laurel
Dx'd w/multifocal DCIS/IDS 3/08
7mm invasive component
Partial mast. 5/08
Stage 1b, ER 80%, PR 90%, HER-2 6.9 on FISH
0/5 nodes
4 AC, 4 TH finished 9/08
Herceptin every 3 weeks. Finished 7/09
Tamoxifen 10/08. Switched to Femara 8/09
Bilat SPM w/reconstruction 10/08
Clinical Trial w/Clondronate 12/08
Stopped Clondronate--too hard on my gizzard!
Switched back to Tamoxifen due to tendon pain from Femara
15 Years NED
I think I just might hang around awhile....
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12-18-2009, 06:45 AM
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Location: Canada
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
Lee etc.
Canada is full of awesome. Just let me know how much you need and
I'll find a way to get it across the border. Maybe I'll send it to grandma
in Nelson and she can put it in with the Christmas presents she's sending
you and Bill.
I'm all for Consumers without Borders .... sign me up. I keep thinking of the
extreme measures that were taken by those unnamed people (Sheila and DonnaD) to get that box of spray cheese over the border ....
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Dx Aug/05 at age 51
2cm. Stage 2A, Grade 3
ER+/PR-
Her2 +++
Sept 7/05 Mastectomy
4 FAC, 4 Taxol, no radiation
1 year of Herceptin
Tamoxifen for approx. 4 months,
Arimidex for 5 years
Prophylactic mastectomy June 22/09
" I yam what I yam." - Popeye
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12-18-2009, 11:29 AM
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
StephN ... what is "fresh sweet and sour mix"???
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PinkGirl
Dx Aug/05 at age 51
2cm. Stage 2A, Grade 3
ER+/PR-
Her2 +++
Sept 7/05 Mastectomy
4 FAC, 4 Taxol, no radiation
1 year of Herceptin
Tamoxifen for approx. 4 months,
Arimidex for 5 years
Prophylactic mastectomy June 22/09
" I yam what I yam." - Popeye
My Photo Album
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12-26-2009, 12:29 PM
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Location: Canada
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
Hey Stephhhhhh .... what is it?
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PinkGirl
Dx Aug/05 at age 51
2cm. Stage 2A, Grade 3
ER+/PR-
Her2 +++
Sept 7/05 Mastectomy
4 FAC, 4 Taxol, no radiation
1 year of Herceptin
Tamoxifen for approx. 4 months,
Arimidex for 5 years
Prophylactic mastectomy June 22/09
" I yam what I yam." - Popeye
My Photo Album
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12-26-2009, 06:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Misty woods of WA State
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
Hi Pinkie -
Sorry I have been off buying wrap, cards and stuff for holidays 2010 on 1/2 price sale.
Here is a pretty standard version:
Definition: Sweet and sour mix is a commonly used mixer made of sugar and lemon and/or lime juices. Pre-mixed sweet and sour can be found in almost anywhere spirits are sold or it can easily be made from scratch.
To make sweet and sour mix:
Method 1:
Combine 1 cup sugar with 1 cup water until sugar is completely dissolved. Add 1 cup fresh lime juice and 1 cup fresh lemon juice and refrigerate. Method 2:
Mix 1 part sugar syrup with 1 part lemon juice. Optionally, add 2 egg whites for every liter of mix to make cocktails slightly foamy.
Also Known As: - Bar Mix
- Sour Mix
- Sweet & Sour Mix
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau
Live in the moment.
MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~
Found suspicious lump 9/2000
Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement
Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR -
Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds
36 rads - very little burning
3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum
Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED!
2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa
Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18
All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET
Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying
Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa
Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?)
2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava
2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec.
Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011
STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer
7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones
Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED
2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED.
Same news for 2016 and all of 2017.
Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.
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12-27-2009, 08:55 AM
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Re: Jolly Rancher TINI - for weird drink lovers!
i'm a rum and coke person so i gave this recipe to a friend and she loved it!
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st 1, gr 3, er,pr-, her2 +,
2 tac,33 rads,6 cmf
1 yr herceptin,
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