September Catch up Thread !

Hi Peacock62

Glad to hear you have completed your chemo cycles . Does not seem so long ago you were having to push to start it . 

I think if your out for a walk just now your doing pretty well . My mum stayed around the house for the first few weeks but I noticed  a big difference week 3 to 4 when you could see her body recovering. She seemed to go from strength to strength after that .

I hope something comes along on the job front . It’s so disappointing for you and I am still a bit cross that they can legally do that during treatment. That took me by surprise for sure .

Hope you feel your strength returning soon .

take care ,

 Court 

Well, day one of school is over and I survived. High stress this morning which eased off. Reminded me of this.

Well done on surviving your first day back . 

Big step but you did it .

We are back in restrictions . Too many people had too many parties ! So indoors is now banned for a few weeks to get the numbers down . Business and education have priority.

We shall survive it . 

take care ,

Court 

Hi All,

Just wanted to pop on and say Hi to you all, Court, Gemmary, VickyLynne, Peacock62 and lot of new names. I am just about getting used to the new set up and managing to find everything now.

I am feeling really well at the moment and managing to get out and about a bit, walking and a bit of retail therapy.  I am waiting to start radiotherapy and oral chemo for a section of my duodenum wall that the surgeon didn't mange to remove all the cells that were there. This has now started to grow. It was hoped the Folfox would eliminate this but I had a very bad reaction to the oxaliplatin and had to abandon that treatment. My oncologist is very positive, so I am too! Just wish they would get a move on and start .. I had the planning scan and the tattoos almost 3 weeks ago so will be any time now.

I work at a school and the students have started back today, it was really strange seeing them all walk past my house in their uniforms and me not going in. I really miss work and all the hustle and bustle, and I also miss my workmates. We keep in touch all the time on Whatsap and I have seen a couple of the girls in the garden, but I love the start of the new term and meeting all the new year 7's. Hopefully I will get back after Christmas all being well.

We had a lovely outing to a garden centre and bought some new shrubs for our front garden, so that's this weekends plan! Hope the weather stays nice, think things are picking up again next week. I do like a nice dry Autumn.

Fell a bit sad today, It's my Mums birthday , she would have been 85, we all miss her so much, I would so love to be popping down to see her (Mum and Dad lived a few doors away from me) with cream cakes. She was such a happy soul.

Sorry for long post! I do tend to talk a lot lol!

Take care all .. have a lovely weekend, whatever you are all doing and keep safe xx

Hi Phoebe!

It is good to know you are feeling so positive. Fingers crossed you get to start soon - sooner you start, the sooner it would be over. And pottering about in the garden is a very relaxing way to spend time. I wish I could be doing it, my own garden is a tragic mess right now, but I can't get to a garden centre while I am still on shielding lockdown.

Oddly, today would have been my own mother's birthday, too. She would have been 74. I do miss her, and still feel upset that cancer stopped me attending her funeral, or seeing her in the last few weeks. I do feel your sadness, too.

Here's to a good weekend, though!

Robin.

Hi Robin, 

Good to meet you, hope you are keeping as well as you can.  I am sorry that you couldn't say goodbye to your mum. Its been an awful time for so many people. We  also lost Dad just before the lockdown started and we were lucky in as much that we were able to spend time with him and be with him as he slipped away. There was only his 4 children allowed at his cremation and my husband who was like another son to Dad couldn't attend. We hope to be able to scatter him and mum and have a celebration of their lives soon.

I hope that you soon feel well enough to get out in the garden, I think a lot of people have really appreciated their homes and gardens these last few months.

Hope you have a good weekend too, and  hope that your support centre will soon be open to you and that you also will soon be able to visit your partner.

Take are and keep safe xx

Thank you!

I was at least able to get into the garden and harvest a bumper crop of blackberries before the weather turned nasty and they were ruined. Once it is permitted, I shall invite friends to help, and we can have a "Hurrah, the garden is tidy" celebration.

I also lost my grandmother in May, but she was 108, so it was not entirely a surprise. Once lockdown ends, there will be a proper memorial, I hope!

R.

108 that it so amazing! Fabulous age. There is an old chap in the nursing home just up the road and during lockdown he had his 107th birthday, as he couldn't have any visitors the whole village sent him individual cards and a lot of the children drew him pictures. The nurses filmed it and put it on the village FB page. It was very touching!

I sincerely hoped you made blackberry and apple crumble ..or even better blackberry wine!

She was a remarkable woman, born before the Titanic set sail... only a couple of months before, but still! She had lived so much life, and I was very lucky to learn a lot of what she had to teach.

I have not used the berries yet, they are currently safely locked up in my freezer. Making crumble or wine without my girlfriend to share it would definitely get me told off.

R.

Hello  so nice to hear you are feeling so well . Look forward to seeing photos of your garden . 

You sound such a great person to work in education . I used to love at parents night if the staff still seemed engaged in the process . Such a good experience for kids to be around positive people . Hope it’s not too long until you are caught up in the activity once more .

Hope your treatment starts soon and gets you back to work quickly . If your oncologist is happy that’s all there is to worry about . They certainly don’t sugar coat anything . Although that’s been hard at times it also gives you so much more confidence when they are positive . So all seems to be heading in a good direction.

My mum is getting older now and I start to think a bit more about the future ! Time is precious . I am glad you had such a lovely relationship with your mum . How special . I feel for you and you too stoatlord My husband was not allowed at his grand funeral but not to be able to go to your mum’s is such a painful process . Sending you much love too! Corona has been much a nightmare!

I picked a few blackberries yesterday too . An old lady I met told me to hear them with a little sugar and pop it onto my cereal ! Going to give it a go . Apparently full of vitamin C !!  

take care and have a good weekend ,

Court