On Friday it will be one year since my diagnosis. In that year I have had the operation, all the chemo ( and I can tell you exactly how many needle sticks) and radiotherapy. I'm now on hormone therapy. Having lost my hair, it is growing back, a different colour and slightly curly. I went back to work for the last half term and have just started the new school year. I even managed a short holiday. Yep Life is looking up, there is a future, learning how to drive, planning to take my grandchildren on a holiday.Time to celebrate, to begin again to look into the future, to celebrate , to put the last year behind me. So Why do I feel like swearing? I have a pain, a pain that I have had for sometime. I initially decided it was arthritis, my dodgy hip, a side effect of the treatment. But I decided I really ought to get it checked out. So last Tuesday I went to the doctors who sent me up for an x-ray telling me it will be at least a week to get the results through. I arrived home to my husband telling me the doctor had rung and would ring back later, which he did. Yes there was signs of arthritis,(I'm sure you know what is coming next) BUT there was also something else. He has spoken to my oncologist and I have to go and see him on Wednesday, his secretary will ring tomorrow with an appointment time. Bu**er bu**er! As you can imagine my tummy has done quite a few sommersaults this evening. I am of course hoping that it is a nothing, but there is that little voice in my brain that remembers the line fromThe Shining "Johnny's back" You can guess what word that little voice is substituting!! Oh well if I dealt with it once, I can deal with it again.
Take care all
Kathxx
