HiLacomtekp, Thankyou for your kind words, I hope that my mentioning my previous breast cancer does not add to newly diagnosed worries but helps them realise how well it has worked. My recent one was unrelated to the first and I am determined to have another 21 years without a recurrence-Given that I am 73 now that will make me 94!!! Ha ha. I had my operation(Lumpectomy and sentinel node) in April and RT in June and now just have the pleasure of Letrozole for at least 5 years.Must admit I thought I had finished with hot flushes!!
Pleased to hear that you have someone coming to look at your roof and hope that the weather stays dry in the meantime and doesn't affect your bedrooms.Have my fingers crossed for you. Sending hugs xx
Hi welcome and yes it's fine to join. Hopefully you will find it helpful as it's somewhere safe to voice your worries and ask questiions. Hopefully your partner (no need to explain same sex - it's funny how we need to explain ourselves sometimes) will in her own time think about joining. In the early days it's such a shock and life changing to be told you have cancer that we shut down and shut out people. We spend a lot of energy trying to make others feel better about our diagnosis that we don't talk about it properly. Lots of people join this site during or after treatment as they have not been in the right frame of mind to join before. My advice to you would be to tell your partner she doesn't have to make others feel ok with her diagnosis, she's allowed to grieve for her pre cancer life, she's allowed to withdraw and focus on herself for time being. Life has changed, you willl be there with her everystep but you know it's a big deal. The prognosis for BC is amazingly high due to huge investment in research, it's not a death sentence but it is life changing, if not physically but mentally. If you can speak to other family and friends and ask them not to make light of her diagnosis - it's so annoying hearing "oh it's fine, you'll be fine" and then they change conversation to them. It's not fine to her, she's feeling unsure of her future. After treatment tell them it's not over for her, every year she will get an annual checkup and every year she'll start worrying from when the appointment letter drops through the door.
Snowys Mumthat would have been lovely. Hope you had a Joe's ice-cream. Best ice-cream in Swansea and I'm not just biased because I worked there as a teen.
VioletsniffHope you have loo rolls !!! Glad your brother is on mend.
I never manage latest post on laptop!!!
NorthernerI don't have the patience for counting triangles or looking for sleeping baby though. I also discovered many years ago why I never see the object within a picture on the "magic" pictures. I had taken my daughter, then a toddler for a consultation with eye specialist as she had to be checked for lazy eye as I had have one, as does one of my neices and it's heredity. One of the tests was to look at perspex slides and point out the triangle, circle etc. on them. All I could see were a load of black ticks but my daughter was confidently pointing out each object!! I asked why I couldn't see them and she asked if I was the parent with a lazy eye and I said yes. Apparently a lazy eye means your eyes do not work together so even though I had treatment and surgery as a child to correct it, it's still there and they will never totally work together!! My eye stil turns in sometimes though I never know when unless someone says something! My mother used to tell me "Carol correct your eye" but aside from an ex boss and ex boyfriend noticing it and remarking "oh one of your eyes is looking at the other" - they were embarassed when I said it does that sometimes, no one ever says. Don't know if they are too polite or if it doesn't happen very often. I'm not at all bothered by it!
Kwissy Love your postive attitude and hope I get invite to your 100th birtday party!!
hope you sorted your scan out!! Still can't believe the way they treat you!
LondonLass Have you packed for your holibobs yet? I dread packing but do it earlish from my list and then I feel chilled!!
I don't recall Dalaoni but it's sad to hear of her passing x
hope you staying out of Hotel NHS
Hope your new kitten behaving himself
LacomtekpHope the insurance company sorts it out. You can hire your own insurance investigator to take them on apparently.
Phew! I logged on to laptop to reply as I hate this site on my mobile now! Text too small etc.
My hubby had a delivery of wood for building a wood store and we had to move from drive to rear garden!! Luckly we have two trolleys (Aldi's or Lidl special) as we both have dodgy backs. I wasn't dressed appropriately apparently!! Well I wasn't expecting to me moving planks of wood so I had a nice maxi dress on! Then the heavens opened and the coat I put on the hood was in my eyes so I fell over on the wet lawn and got my dress muddy!! I'm glad someone found it funny!! I've been like bloody wonderwoman this morning! Up at 8.15am, cooked a vegan breakfast for daughter and her fiance! Yes I'm that organised I had my vegan sausages and hash browns in freezer, done one lot of washing, moved a ton of wood and solved Northernerpuzzle!!!
Oh I forgot I also made a Morrison's click & collect order!!
We went to Penclawdd on Sunday morning for tea and cake with daughter in law and her mum. Wanto post photo but the icon has disappeared AGAIN. Keeping fingers crossed for a return visit a week on Saturday
I was sadly expecting to hear of Dalonii’s passing, she certainly had a way with words, an excellent speaker. Thank you for letting us know. I met her since we were both Community Champions (the first round of CCs) at the time and was blown away by her friendly personality and clever mind. She will be sadly missed. Hugs xxx
The first time I met Daloni was at a champs meeting in Vauxhall, It was my first champs meeting and she was so friendly and supportive as we chatted on our way back from lunch
I was one of the second intake of champs but I’m unsure whether you and I ever met at a meeting. You may have been at the last one I turned up to but, as I had a bad fall (hitting my head) getting out of a taxi I never got to the meeting, I ending up going by ambulance to A&E accompanied by the “lovely: Michael. I have vague recollections of everyone saying goodbye as they were leaving the meeting - I’d just got back and was having a coffee in the cafe on the ground floor, but no idea as to who they were.
I do have a photo taken at a champ’s lunch about four years ago, but I’m still unable to post photos on here.
Take care,
xxx
PS Just updated to a mew iPad Pro - which I had set up by the tech team at John Lewis - and even though all my saved passwords were transferred over from my MacBookPro - I was asked again to creat a new password to get onto here, which I reluctantly did , and this time it allowed me to do it - I can now access the site on my new iPad but cannot log in on my iphone. I had resisted creating a new password before as I expected that this would happen. All my devices are inked so this shouldn’t happen. Grrrrrrr. - will it ever be sorted?
Oh noooo, techy problems! I assume you tried changing the iPhone password too, to the one you chose for the iPad?
i too am unsure if we met.....
i think I retired from Champs quite a few years back, as daughter was doing much better, around 2012-3 I think, probably not long after we met her bone marrow donor. I still kept in touch on the site as I was still helping out in blood cancer groups (in fact the transplant one was set up at my request) but then suddenly found I needed the site for myself!
