Glad you are back at work Jolly. Imagine you are shattered this evening but it will help to start and put all the BC business behind you a little as things are returning to near normal. I always think routine is boring but routine is good if you know what I mean! Keep badgering the BCNs. One if them should get back to you. Mine have been ok...my named nurse is off having an op herself but another rang me after my op and when I left a message today for one of them to ring me I got a call back quite soon.
Ali..know what you mean about school run! Hope you have a relaxing day tomorrow and the first chemo session goes smoothly. 48 hrs from now you can tick one off. Are you have 6 x 3 weekly chemo? A lovely colleague came to see me today as she has 2 relatives going through chemo for BC. She said they are both managing to carry on pretty much as normal with side effects being manageable so every crossed you have a smooth ride too.
Jackie how are you feeling today. You appointment is Wednesday isn't it? Trying to keep track of everyones! Hope you enjoyed your family time yesterday.
Leolady- imagine if we did make our fortune writing kids books. I definitely think BC is bringing on a mid life crisis for me and I'm having urged to quit the joy that is the civil service and embark on an adventure!
Feel much more positive about Fridays appt now. I do have a nasty feeling the news won't be brilliant and pretty sure chemo on the cards but I just want the next thing that needs to happen to get going. Sooner any treatment/further surgery starts sooner it ends. Can't hide from what's to come so I'm bloomin well gonna face it head on. Just hope nothing much needs to happen before Christmas so I can enjoy the time with Libby.
Need to go to GP for sick note tmrw which will require me getting dressed before 9....today I had to answer door in my dressing gown at 10 for a pparcel delivery. My pre breast cancer self would be horrified!
Decided to be 100% selfish today . I’m off to see my sister at the weekend to deliver parcels; give hugs galore ; kick bro in law up the proverbial and tell him he needs to share his cancer story so my sis can get support too. And I am not going to a neighbours for pre Christmas curry night
By the way I suggest you turn up at the Gp in pjs that way you could get on evening news. Then you can promo our new book. I’m only here in pjs because I’m writing the new best seller based on the antics of a hamster .
On another note you’d make a great person dealing with children. I know this believe me . Teaching assistant , teacher , ed. Physic, foster family . Good lord the list is endless . But top selling children’s author with me is a must primarily.
So I’m in bed writing the first chapter on Ian the hamster. Ok maybe not Ian . Albert goes wild. We could include something about mommies with BC. That latter is no joke
Oh blimey I’m rambling. Can someone cut the Internet
Right so we are all another day older and wiser. We survived the poo that today had to offer. We are still loved. We have made wonderful
New friends all because we got this @@@@. And we will all be here tomorrow because ‘ I getbknocked down, but I get up again ‘
Take care
Leolady back on form ready to kick serious ass
Life is like a boxing match, defeat is declared not when you fall .....But when you refuse to stand up again .......So, I get knocked down but I get up again. x
Charlie hamster is looking a bit sheepish this evening after last night's escape. Still as rude as ever mind. Just passed him a bit of carrot through the newly improved security system (padlocks on his cage...hubby has secured the cage like a high security prison!) and he just snatched it and ran to hide it without a word of thanks.
Anyway just wanted to say you know me so well Lindsay! I really want to do teacher training and prob will one day if I could get a voluntary redundancy from work. I do (well don't right now due to this little problem with my breast) half a day a week voluntary work at Libbys school and also help at Brownies. Love kids. Would have had more than Libby if I could have done but that's another story.....
Now blooming have A Team music running through my ears and Charlie in his prisoner cell block carrot
Randomly the family hamsters were kept in a cage in a bath. Don’t ask! Eldest one had issues way back then. In fact still has where animals are concerned
Thinking I’ve not lost the touch of seeing those who are destined to be with children
So Charlie’s escapades it is then
Once upon a time or ‘warm put on’ as one child once wrote.
Leolady 95%
Life is like a boxing match, defeat is declared not when you fall .....But when you refuse to stand up again .......So, I get knocked down but I get up again. x
Just typed a nice long message got up to get a drink and my iPad turned sideways and boom the message was wiped!!
Firstly you lot have been really busy posting, I haven’t stopped laughing reading through them, oh yeah LL is definitely back lol!!
Ali sorry but is it this wednesday or next week you are starting your chemo? Either way I will be thinking of you and sending love and support and a big hug.
Jammy, good news that you’ve got a date through for your results. I know you will be apprehensive on that morning, I really was too but I think it’s better you know Friday than having to wait until after xmas.
JG I don’t understand why nobody has contacted you still, I really hope you get through to somebody soon.
LL so good to see you’re back on form and cheering us all up.
I had a nice afternoon at my sons yesterday. I did feel a bit like a prisoner out on day release though.
I know ladies on here are driving and back at work but I still can’t drive. I can only put it down to having a vertical incision around my outer boob from my armpit down, it’s still so swollen and hard. Just bored bored bored of being stuck indoors which probably doesn’t help my mood as such.
More wrapping done, just one grandchild left to do and that’s it I’m finished.
Oncotype results for me on Wednesday, I just hope there’s no further postponement, I’m going to ring them tomorrow and double check as I don’t want another ‘sorry we can’t see you for another week’ calls again Wednesday morning.
Good night ladies, sleep tight and sweet dreams xxxxxxx
If folks turned up to our gp in pyjamas, nobody would blink an eye, normal for where we live!! Not normal for me I might add :-0 I love my bed though!! Pre-cancer self was up at 5.30 for work & up at 8 for gym classes on days off!! Now I love my nest and never rush up unless I’m going out out.
I’m sneakily pleased that I’m not the only one who has hiccups with technology.
I have been driving but it’s definitely the one thing I find hurts and I have a small sentinel node scar and one round the areola. It’s the under arm one which pulls so much. Consultant thinks they are fine and healing well. But we all heal at different rates so don’t beat yourself up
Now should we all be calling Esther Rantzen ??? Wrapping up a grandchild there must be a law against that. Tee hee
Yep Bigguy there are parts of our local area where the school run, trips to the supermarket and the docs are all done in pjs or onesies. Then parts where ful monty make up, high heels and fur coats are the order of the day. But no knickers !!!!
Well snow on the ground here but main roads good and as my mojo is back I’m dragging unsuspecting hubby to John Lewis. Shhhh he will enjoy himself.
Have a good day Jolly G But don’t overdo the work thingy
Take care
Leolady
Life is like a boxing match, defeat is declared not when you fall .....But when you refuse to stand up again .......So, I get knocked down but I get up again. x
Ooooh I hate it when I’ve sat and typed and then it’s gone, I’m always doing it halfway through.
Can I ask ladies, when you reply do you have an opportunity to look at other replies whilst typing? Bit hard to explain but if a few of you have posted I read them but when I reply I can only see that particular message so I have to try and remember everybody’s comments dates etc.
It would mean replying to everyone individually to do that.
Haha LL I re read my message about wrapping my grandchild, actually she is the one that needs wrapping and putting under the tree for a week or two, 5 last week and a little minx!!
I’ve had a call back from my oncologists secretary today, and my results are in, tomorrow I will know either way if I will be having chemo. I’m a tad frightened if I’m honest but I suppose at least I will know what’s going to happen next rather than living in limbo land.
It’s very cold but a beautiful sunny day here today, the cats are sprawled out trying to soak up a few winter sun rays, Christmas music on and the last bit of wrapping happening.
Hope you are all enjoying and making the most of your day.
No I can only see the last comment when I reply so if I'm being really good and my memory is working (which us rare) I try and remember what I've read but always worry I won't answer somebody or forget they've got an appointment coming up as it's hard isn't it if there have been a few posts.
Glad you will answer re chemo tomorrow. Of course you will feel frightened it's a big thing, I feel nervous for you and I've never met you! Let us know the outcome once you are able to.
Sounds like the cats have a hard life! Mind you I've just sat on sofa for 4 hours as another work friend came to see me so just chatting and eating chocolates all day really. Nipped to see GP first thing he gave me a 3 month sick note....in 20 years think I had had about 6 days sick before BC. Off to get Libby from school now then we are bowling with Brownies this evening which should be fun and will distract me nicely.
Ali - if I don't get chance to post later will be thinking of you tomorrow.
