It seems I'm a patient now!

Hi moomy sorry your eye is not right - these things are so frustrating

Hi Flossie25 - it is so stressful knowing what to do, things spin round in your head.  Lets hope there are no more decisions for you (except the car!!)

I have a 1.6 engine. Its an automatic and it struggles a bit to change up on a hill, but its still pretty powerful and I live in an area with lots of hills. 

xxx

Hi Eddiboy, 

Car sounds ok, can you force a ‘kick down’ of the gears? 

Hi Flossie, 

Was today the test drive? How did it go? 

Thinking of you both as you face ops.....

Well I’m 8 weeks post mx today (and tomorrow!) and am tonight going from the Sloggi bra top to the M&S crop top and maybe tomorrow no bra at night! Bet it will feel very odd? 

Hugs xxx

One never knows what we will end up with car wise moomy but OH enjoyed driving mini so it’s above the Audi at the mo.... looking at 1.5 Eddiboy.  I’ve never driven an automatic but OH says it’s good. You’re doing so well mommy post mx surgery .... it’ll prob feel odd I guess after 8 weeks of wearing something at night but I’m sure you’ll soon get used to it.... back to normal by the sounds of it. Xx

I guess now 8 weeks are up I can begin to be a bit more adventurous, maybe ironing is back on the cards? Oh dear!!! Also dealing with my heavier vacuum, perhaps? Or maybe not! (Can you tell I’m not the most house-proud soul in existence?!) 

So tomorrow choir M.D. wants an after choir rehearsal of all possible soloists.....difficulty ‘casting’ the ‘Qui sedes’ in Vivaldi Gloria, it’s a wee bit high for us altos and rather low for the sopranos. He’s thinking of having a handful of us singing in unison now. Hmmm. Have been singing it through and I can just about get the higher notes now that I haven’t got a cold but they are not beautiful.....

Hugs xxx

Me being me, I’ve been mulling over possible causal factors for my BC. Yes there are multiple cancers in my family but supposedly unconnected. 

One thing however does spring to mind. I have quite a pronounced scoliosis, spotted at age 12-13, and followed up quite ‘carefully’ but with one heck of a lot of whole length spinal X-rays regularly throughout my teenage years to see if it had progressed. Thankfully it hasn’t much. 

However, with X-rays as imprecise as they were way back then, I probably had quite a dose through my teens! 

Who knows? It could be part of a causal factor. Plus of course all the chemicals we got exposed to in those far off days, again not knowing if they were harmful. My dad was an engineer and we lived in one of the cottages on site, so brother and I were often about in the small engineering company, taking messages and so on. My brother has had bowel cancer..... 

My dad also smoked quite a lot (so common then) but tended to put his cigarettes out and then light them up again later....again not good, we now know......and he died of lung cancer.

Hugs xxx

Housework will always be there moomy I think I have the same attitude towards it !!!

causal factors ....? ...  I don’t know..could be anything , everything but I think genetics could be the key. Some folk smoke like a chimney and get nothing others who don’t smoke develop lung cancer (secondary smoking, environmental factors ?

). I’ve given up Bluetooth enabled trackers. Its like the effect of computer/iPad/phone screens on eyes ??!!

Anyway it’s always been my bc boob that’s given cause for concern from needle biopsy age 30 to being recalled after my first mammogram :-)

xx

I have chickened out and got the crop top on.....

Hugs xxx

Good luck with the Qui Sedes Moomy ! Xxxxx

Been having a chat with a lovelyl Mac nurse counsellor, about everything that happened even leading up to my diagnosis, she reminded me that I probably had 'second hand' smoking too, as well as all my other, listed factors, together with a good ten years of stress from daughter's long illness.....I was given the 'right to mourn' which dampened my eye somewhat. 

Then a brief lunch at home before choir. Think 'Qui Sedes' will be comfortable with a group of 5 of us, we will be singing in a wide, extremely dry acoustic so there's courage in numbers! 

Hugs xxx

Please don't ponder the "causal factors" too much ladies. Apart from BRCA, there aren't really any other definitive causes for BC. 

They made a huge thing of HRT some years ago. Which meant I had to fight tooth and nail to get it when I started menopause at 39. Fast forward 10 years, and my BC was ER negative. Not just low, ER0!!! There is some evidence now that ladies with ER+ BC who took HRT may well have got BC anyway. Needless to say, I'm back on HRT with onco's blessing.

There is some evidence that rubbish sleep patterns can be a trigger. Shift work and so on. Something to do with upsetting the circadian rhythm.

Flossie25 I wish I had an automatic!! Makes driving in traffic sooooo much easier!!

Hope the singing went well moomy !!

xx