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I've always found the best way to strike up a conversation with a stranger is to ask someone what music they like. Sometimes I play a little game in which I try to guess what sort of music they'll like. Usually I'm right. A few weeks ago I got it completely wrong and I'm cheered up at the memory now.
I usually get it right within a guess or two but that day I struggled. Classical? Opera? Swing Music? Mario Lanza? Judy Garland? The more I tried, the more he laughed. I was obviously...
I keep being told that I should have reached my "new normal" by now. But here's the thing, no one can tell me what a new normal should look or feel like and if it feels like this then I'm not keeping it! Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want but I am beginning to wonder if this talk of a "new normal" is just something that is said to keep people like me hoping for something better to come round the corner or maybe I am just a bit to black and white in my thinking and have misunderstood what...
Breast cancer 2006, lumpectomy, node clearance, recurrence Feb 2013, lumpectomy, 25/25 lymph nodes removed cancerous. various scans. Mets to liver 6mm and 8mm nodule, suggesting I might be able to have op. If not less than 2 years to live, I know I should not complain, I am 62.
Has anyone been through this experience xx
Please can anybody share experiences of a TUG flap / TMG reconstruction?. I’m anxious about effects on the donor site and would appreciate some advice.
Also how do I get comprehensive information on the plastic surgeon involved?
I have a provisional date of 5th July. for mastectomy and reconstruction.
I've not been feeling up to much these last couple of days, fatigue is catching me and the side effects build.
The very tip of my tongue is burned. Its bloody agony at times, I have pain relief now and some new magic gel which the chemist will have tomorrow morning - these things should help. Thrush too, a common effect of the radio which I have stuff for too. These mean that, right now, I don't like talking. It hurts my tongue and the horrid thick saliva makes me harder to understand.
It's eleven weeks today since Mam passed away and seven weeks this Thursday for Dad. Sometimes I feel ok and other times i cry at the smallest of things. The other day I started to get upset over a straw because in his last few weeks dad had to drink through a straw.
Today is my son's birthday and I got teary over the fact that he'll never get a card off them again. Mam used to ring everyone on their birthday to wish them happy birthday.Went to work yesterday and they were all talking about...
I was up at 02.30hrs, sleep decided to elude me last night, constant worries about what today will bring, Wondering whether or not the chemo will even happen as the tumour is pressing on the superior vena cava again making mums face swell and making her short of breath and rattly. they only redused the steroids last week and already its causing issues.
Well D-Day has arrived today. Everyone on route to the hospital by 6.30 am ready for an 8 am start. At the hospital mums settled and a canula placed...
16th May 2013
Yesterday we went to see dad at the cemetary ready for fathers day and I noticed something I wasnt keen on. My Mum was recentley hospitalised with SVC compression this is when they found the cancer. after nearly two weeks on nebulisers back to back and continued oxygen ,mega doses of steriods and bronchodilators mum was well enough to come home. Yesterday my sister and I noticed mum was making a gurgling sound and was a bit breathless. Today we noticed a swelling on her left side just...
