2017...lets get started!

I know what you mean about Christmas.  I took all the decorations down today.  Chemo tomorrow and that means one third of the way there.  Good luck for next week xx

JM, I'm glad your spirits are up, I am also glad the festivities are over. In the past I would over indulge eating too much and drinking the same as most people at this time of year. Christmas was different in 2016 , I was grateful that I could eat, I just couldn't get tucked in and eat what I wanted or as much as I would have in the past. In hindsight maybe that wasn't such a bad thing. I know that I have been luckier than some people that have been through the surgery that I had. Some people have developed complications and can't eat at all. So I am counting my blessings and said a few prayers of thanks. You have been busy so you deserve a rest today and don't overdo it tomorrow. Do the stuff you prefer not to leave for your husband first, that way if you get tired you know you have left the stuff you trust him to do. I am trying to get myself back into a routine but it was very cold and frosty this morning so I stayed in bed until 9:30. I have forms to complete and check through and phone calls to DWP to make and they usually take about an hour, so I kept putting it off until the new year. Well it's here now and I wish you a healthy and happy New Year for 2017. Hugs and best wishes to you and your family.

Kind regards Frank

Hi JM

Sooooooooo pleased your feeling brighter,don.t feel guilty about spoiling things its not you that's spoilt anything its Mr.C.I have taken decoration down too and decided to give lounge a really good clean windows included and I was that chuffed with myself because I felt a bit of the old me had come back,i didn.t feel so tired my arm on the side of my mastectomy ached a little but I just felt so excited at the thought of a little bit of the old me was back,its a long road my virtual friend and it does have twists and turns and sometimes the road is completing bloody closed off due to essential repairs but we are all getting there,and just think next Christmas you will be busy with babysitting duties, hope you.ve got all your baby bits insitu at home,keep looking to that my lovely and never fear you will never be to tired for that little bundle,my husband and I have full care of our granddaughter she was 7 when she came to us and is now 10,she lifts my spirits everytime I look at her.

Good luck for Thursday I saw my onco every three weeks before chemo and he measured my breast with what I laughingly call his measuring stick,mine had shrunk by 1cm across and 1cm down after 2nd chemo I was exstatic I skipped out of the hospital,it was working so I didn.t care how bad it made me feel cos I knew it was working.

I had a fec off bbq when I finished my first three as it was in the summer.

Stay strong my lovely

Love and hugs

Deexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks everyone.

Jo the house does look a bit bare after the decorations are down, but I'm not bothered as Christmas wasn't spent here at home for the first time ever.

Dee that's a fantastic idea to have a fec off celebration, I'm going to do that as it'll be the last session in between my husband and my birthdays if all goes to plan. I'm really pleased you are also feeling better, just to feel more positive about the future is a great thing, I still get scared but it's getting less and less each day, I think I'm just thinking a bit clearer now about everything now that I'm sleeping better.

I bet it keeps you busy looking after your granddaughter Dee, she is lucky to have such a positive granny, I just can't wait to see my grandson, it still doesn't seem real that my daughter will be a mum herself any day now.

I so hope I get some good news that the lump is shrinking, I just can't feel anything now the cyst that was on top of it has gone, both sides feel exactly the same, so I don't know where to feel! I wish I did so I could have some idea of what's going on. Anyway I will find out more tomorrow.

Zappaman I hope you made that phone call and it's out of the way. I haven't had to deal with anything to do with DWP, just going to battle through as I think my husband and I can manage. It's Easter that it really gets busy for us but daughter no 2 is in teaching and can help in holidays off and has said she will come and stay, that's a blessing as I'm guessing I might be having the mastectomy about then but that's a question I need to ask tomorrow, not sure of the order of things with having the chemo first.

Much love to you all.

Xxx