AWAKE.........

I'm a night owl and try to look out for new posters reaching out late at night when the worry gremlins appear.  I always try to link them to this thread as I know they will be welcomed and supported.  It's not only answers & facts we need about treatment it's just to be with others who have been or are a similar journey so understand your feelings.  Thank you Sal /LondonLass. Xx

And tonight.....or should I say this morning?.....it's my turn to be awake in the middle of the night. This is even a bit early for me to get up and I've been awake at least an hour.

Londonlass.....you have summed up this thread so adequately.  It was a brilliant idea you had to start it. It also allows for moments of normality when we simply just chat.....about our daily lives, the shopping, the gardens, the crafts, the family gathering, the day trips and breaks away......they are all as important to healing as the advice, the empathy, and care.

I know after six years I should probably move on. My treatment is out of date and probably the recommendations from my unit too. Covid has altered even the ordinary.....and yet there is a part of me that doesn't want to loose the virtual friendship it has brought. People do come and go for whatever reason ....and often drop back in again( the same pull?) but where else would you  find a place where someone is always there for you whether it be five o'clock in the morning after a restless night or in the afternoon after a gruelling afternoon of tests.....bad news or good?

So Londonlass.( and thankyou).....heres to the next 1,000 and it will surely hit the 40,000 sooner than you imagine.

Your poor BIL Northernerskin grafts can be so sore.

moomyyou are a Trojan and how lovely that your children could get relief with their music!

LondonLass…yes LP has been a boon to us all through the years!What a brilliant idea!

for me,LP has been 1)an inspiration,2)a giggle3)a nice distraction from the many awfulnesses which are “cancer”

I will look for a little pic to join the thread Xxx

I agree with Lacomtekp…I am basically “all better”now after 5 years and should really move on,but for me this thread has been an inspiration and esp through lockdown when many of us didn’t have anybody else,it has been great company.

One morning soon after my diagnosis when I had just had my DIEP,aand had to leave work and all my friends,a little guinea pig woke me up and whispered in my ear…”Today is the beginning of the rest of your life…and…have you got a bit of carrot at all.?”xx

It’s just a WONDERFUL thread, full of love, help, advice, welcoming and funny all at the same time! And I’m sure that I want to keep returning in spite of now knowing my problems are nothing to do with my breast cancer, because like you all, the virtual friendship firmed here is real, true and tangible.

Thank you for starting it, LondonLass and to everyone for your friendships.

Hugs xxx

The one place where everyone understood 

The worry ,confusion the whole bloody rollercoaster ! 

where permission was given to scream ,cry , rant and most of all laugh  

Because .........

So thankful for this thread LondonLass

Wow Northerner I think this pic/quote….

Should be given to Breast Care Nurses around the country! As I am sure some of them could do with this as a reminder of what their job should really be about!

I’m not criticising all nurses, but I have met many in the last 8yrs and I think only 2 of them have truly understood, what I really needed during our meetings…. And it WASN’T Bloody Leaflets! (Although they were useful during a Hot Flush!)

Thanks for sharing this xx

Really enjoying reading the comments about what this Thread means to you all. However I have  been told off by LP! He’s cross because I didn’t put his Pic in as part of the 36,000 posts celebration! Whoops!!

So here he is……

He’s even allowed to take off his PPE so we can enjoy his Smile.

Have a Good Day Fruit Loops! Sal xxxx

I want to say THANK YOU and  

I popped to site mid June post surgery - achy, worried and anxious and all the rest of the emotions that go with this trip that I didn't choose to go on. You welcomed me and have given me support, advice and welcomed me into your lives with wonderful tales and distractions. I wish I had met you all earlier including LP as many of my appointments were on my own and some company would have been nice. Funny how in waiting rooms, no one speaks to anyone else! I shall certainly be on this site and reading more tales for a while yet. Don't get me wrong, my partner and family are supportive but they haven't been through this so to some extent don't get it! Keep going all...take it one day at a time. sending love xx

Wow LondonLass, how amazing!!! And a lovely way to acknowledge the wonderful ness of the thread. Here are some hugs and a photo for luckypants, of some friends of his who live next door. I look after them when their parents are away! So sweet. Love to you and all the fabulous fruity loops, HFxxxxxx

Thank you LondonLass for starting this wonderful thread. It continues to suppprt me in all the ways you said, even after 11 years!! Love to all fruitloops xxx