<p>Simba:</p>
<p>Thanks. Will try it when S comes home from camp.</p>
<p>sluggbugg, you forgot the last direction:</p>
<p>“Drink at least two”</p>
<p>I had a roommate on summer in Boston-- the two of us were ADDICTED to these drinks (they were very similar to above) from TGI Friday’s. We made them daily. I kept wondering why all my jogging wasn’t touching the 5lbs I needed to lose.</p>
<p>I still think of the soundtrack of that summer as the vvvvvvvvrrrrom of a blender crunching through oreos.</p>
<p>I am back from Chiina and went to our local Indian buffet for - mango lassi! This thread had left me craving one. </p>
<p>I guess I am going to have to figure out what kind of alcohol goes well with mango lassi. Hmm.</p>
<p>For some reason I’m thinking brandy. Any other ideas?</p>
<p>Alu: try “hypnotique” which is passion fruit liqueur & tastes like you are drinking flowers. Ahhhh.</p>
<p>Alu:</p>
<p>I’m thinking brandy, too. Madeira as a possible alternative? Couldn’t possibly ruin a good Sauterne by mixing it with yogurt, though.</p>
<p>I’m going to have to stop at the grocery store on the way home…new ideas. Sound delicious. The only issue is that we are raising the quality of this Sinner’s Alley a little too much. Do you think the regulars will mind?</p>
<p>Oh wait, we are the regulars…</p>
<p>Marite,
Wanted to let you know that I made mango lassi at lunch and both my daughter and son loved it. Thanks for the idea.</p>
<p>Now, the good news, we saw the surgeon today and he gave Amanda the go-ahead to eat VERY soft foods if she can fit them in between the gap in her teeth. On the way home, we stopped and bought a baby feeding spoon and then went directly to Dairy Queen where she consumed most of a hot fudge sundae. Not a pretty picture to watch her eat — actually made me wish I had the camera so I could put this right up there with the mess she made eating cake on her 1st birthday 17 years ago — but the sounds of pure pleasure coming from her were wonderful. Tonight she is going to try some scrambled eggs.</p>
<p>The bad news, unfortunately, is that her bladder infection has not cleared up and we just found out she is severely anemic (something I had suspected even before the surgery), so it’s back to more meds for both. Oh well. If I can get some eggs in her, I think she’ll start to feel more perky. At this point, she’s lost 8 pounds and is looking rail thin as she was thin to begin with.</p>
<p>Oh dear. Being on liquid diet is not helping the anemia. My MIL, who has a tendency to anemia, consumes lots of Ensure. But she eats like a bird.
Does Amanda like cranberry juice? Together with the meds, it could help vanquish the bladder infection.</p>
<p>Glad to know your kids like mango lassi!</p>
<p>Hooray for lassi :)</p>
<p>I came home with 2 crates of mangoes, + 2 cans of Alphonso (the best) Mango pulp, and yogurt. Was quite the wild woman with the blender.</p>
<p>Try yogurt and peeled, or frozen, peaches, and some ice cubes, in the blender.</p>
<p>Mootmom, for plain lassi, use 2 cups plain yogurt, 1 cup milk, 6-8 ice cubes, a dash of salt, and sugar to taste. Ahhhhh!</p>
<p>Carolyn, glad Amanda enjoyed the treat. It can get pretty tiring being on a liquid diet.</p>
<p>Anemia is helped by blackstrap mollasses. Say, on oatmeal?</p>
<p>Hey! just wanted to let you know that I suvived Nantucket and am now soppin’ it up on the Jersey shore for a few beachy days before heading down to the Chesapeake heat. Here’s the “wrap-up”…(or the “wrap me up…”) I ran into no Fabians in Sconset, Slug, but alot of Boris’s and Serge’s driving tour buses to earn cash for their Ukraine college tuitions. There are, however, ALOT of Trents, Brookes, Adrians, and III and IV’s all looking like Ralph Lauren ads. A little too high Waspy and effete for me (not to mention young…). And anyway, they like to go out with Muffys, Mimi’s and Courtneys…</p>
<p>Now in Jersey, we got alotta Vincents and Albertos with dark tans and tattoes mowing lawns. They are fun to watch but the thought of Uncle Vito popping in on us at two in the morning with his honchos in tow makes me a little gunshy. I just like to look. Maybe that’s a sign of getting old.</p>
<p>Ciao Bella…</p>
<p>Ouch, Carolyn. Sorry to hear about D’s bladder infection. Those suckers hurt! [All of the male regulars stampede toward the Cone of Silence, aka the pool tables in a distant corner of the bar.]</p>
<p>Basically, you want to do two things: (1) flush out all of the bacteria that are causing the infection by drinking a lot of fluids, and (2) make the body’s environment inhospitable for the bacteria to reproduce. This comes from years of trying to figure out why I kept getting bladder infections. Looking back on it, I’m sure the reason was because I wasn’t drinking enough! (heh)…Water, that is. 
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<p>Mother Slugg’s natural remedies for getting rid of pesky bladder infections: (what’s worked for me)</p>
<p>**Blueberry<a href=“Vaccinium,%20various%20species”>/b</a> and **cranberry<a href=“V.%20macrocarpon”>/b</a>. A smart nurse practioner in Santa Cruz explained this to me years ago. Certain compounds in cranberry and blueberry juice prevent bacteria from adhering to the bladder walls. And, if they can’t stick to the bladder walls, they won’t cause infection there. Cranberry and blueberry contain arbutin, a chemical compound that is both an antibiotic and a diuretic that helps relieve excess water retention. Cranberry and blueberry lower E. coli adhesion, while grapefruit, guava, mango, orange and pineapple do not.</p>
<p>The only problem with the cranberry juice prescription is that you have to drink a lot of it. Naturopaths suggest drinking 17 ounces a day to treat UTIs. I would have consumed gallons of the stuff if that’s what it took, so 17 oz. isn’t that much (just over 2 cups). I hear that white cranberry juice is a little easier on the kidneys than the red juice. </p>
<p>Yogurt. The active bacterial cultures in yogurt help prevent both bladder infections and yeast infections. When you’re on an antibiotic, it disrupts the body’s healthy balance of bacteria, and the live cultures in yogurt help restore it. This same nurse practitioner recommended that I eat a couple of tablespoons of plain yogurt every day while I was on an antibiotic for a UTI. Flavored yogurt 3 times a week worked well for prevention after that. Blueberry yogurt and cranberry juice are a pretty good infection-fighting breakfast or snack. **Papaya<a href=“Petroselinum%20crispum”>/b</a>, in particular, has a long history of use for bladder problems; it’s another diuretic. It’s all about flow! 
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<p>I’m no doc, and this is just what has worked for me. I hope she is feeling better, soon!</p>
<p>Yo, Crash! Can I borrow Uncle Vito and his entourage? I keep getting the run-around from the county planning & building depts. re: fixing my swimming pool. Grrr. It’s enough to drive a slugg to drink! :)</p>
<p>That nurse was a real idiot. When I had surgery, my doctor scolded me for not using more morphine. I’d been wanting to tough it out. He explained that if I caught the pain when it was just beginning, it would be easier to overcome it than if I let it grow, at which point, even an increased dosage would not be effective. Amanda’s nurse did her absolutely no favor. </p>
<p>I knew about cranberry juice, but not yogurt. More Lassi!</p>
<p>So we all gathered in Sinner’s Alley last night and talked bladder infections. Are we wild girlies or what? If our children only knew.</p>
<p>One would think that we have had taken in enough alcohol to kill off just about anything. Marite, I’ll have a lassi with you. Gotta coat my stomach afterall it is friday nite or it will be soon :)</p>
<p>Yeah Alu, whaddaya say tonight lets talk about bifocals?</p>
<p>Well yes let’s do that. So when I was young I had the kind of eyesight that was better on both ends than it was supposed to be. I could see further and also closer. Doctors would comment.</p>
<p>Now I am up to 1.75 magnification on my drugstore glasses. BTW, I like the tiger striped ones…And I am finding I have them on my nose all the time. And horrors upon horrors, even the far away stuff is getting blurred. So it seems that I will go form milpsec eyesight to partial blindness in record time. Today I left my glasses in the car and then went up to the office. Well when I got there I could barely see the computer screen.</p>
<p>Can we name a cocktail after middle aged vision problems? You all are so creative, I know someone can come up with something.</p>
<p>Party’s really heating up now. Come on back all ye who fled from unrinary tract infections!</p>
<p>When I get old enough 
for bifocals, I want cat eye ones…maybe with a chain to keep them on. If I do that does my hair have to go up high in a beehive, maybe died bold reddish, and my lipstick get orange and smeared on my teeth…</p>
<p>Is it Flo the waitress I am thinking of here?</p>
<p>I am just turning the bifocal corner myself, still in denial, but I definitely need my drugstore specs to remove splinters.</p>
<p>Maybe if we drink almost three 7&7’s, we could call it a 20/20?</p>