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Chemo nurses are absolutely fantastic! With the problems with drawing blood yesterday I was filled with trepidation at the thought of chemo. The cold I was developing hasn’t progress too much so I was fairly confident the bloods would be fine. I always arrive early, I cannot stand being late or even just on time I have to get anywhere with plenty of time to spare. And of course, for the first time the clinic was running…

Day 7 of my 7th cycle of CMF. & is supposed to be a lucky number isn't it? Hah! don't you believe it. I have done really well to get this far, I have almost conquered my fear of needles ( I do say this with a sense of pride) and have been really lucky with only having very mild side effects. Well I woke up this morning ready to go for my routine blood test ( at my hospital you have a blood test on day 0 ( 28) and on day…

We all desreve a good night out and I had one on Friday. A colleague retires this Friday and it was her retirement do. I had ummed and ahhed about going but in the end thought “Blow it go and enjoy yourself.” Well I had a really good night out, hit the dance floor, cracked open the bottle of wine ( I just avoided the 48 hr chemo embargo) and hit the buffet where I laid into the deserts as most of the sandwiches etc had…

Now I am not superstitious. I will walk under ladders unless there is some one up it with a bucket. Friday 13th just an ordinary day. But yesterday caused me a slight rethink. Now I must say right now nothing really dramatic happened just lots of irritations. Let me just list those events. First of all a slight change to my routine I went out in the morning instead of the afternoon and told my husband that I would be…

This disease is a real b....r isn't it? I went through the menopause many years ago with minimum problems, no problems with the dreaded hot sweats which many friends have had. The only real problem was one of mood changes and that was solved with a short burst of HRT. Since then all has been fine and dandy. Well, until recently that is. I've been very lucky on my chemo what side effects I have had have been very mild…