It seems I'm a patient now!

if if your reconstruction is the same as mine,you won’t have to make up your mind straight away...it may be you can leave it a bit to decide.which is great!

are you on the brast cancer thread..there may be more detailed advice to help you there...

moomy...oh,I am sorry about your cold....hope it doesn’t travel .Nice to be out in the fresh are.Have you “whooshed “ your lavender,to raise the smell,like they do at outpr Butterfly farm?

my Dad used also ,to show me how to rub between my finger and thumb,to raise the smell.Good for sleeping!I teach my great Grand-neice to do that now...xx

Ha, I will have to do that 'thumb and finger' trick thing at night to help sleep, Violetsniff! 

Sneezing more and unfortunately coughing a bit too, in spite of all the extra stuff I'm swallowing down me....using inhaler more often too, as a preventative. Sometimes that really does help. Just hope the worst is over very soon! 

Hi Flossie, hope you are getting clearer in your mind now about what best to do, I understand you really can change your mind later if you pot for no reconstruction, but it might take a bit longer and more persistence on your behalf to get the follow-on surgery. That was another factor in my decision to implant straight away. 

Hi Eddiboy, holiday is beckoning, or has it already beckoned? Hope you have a safe and wonderful, relaxing time and build up that strength and stamina for the forthcoming. 

Hugs xxx

Hi Violetsniff ..I’m not going for DIEP ...

Hi moomy  I know it’s more cost effective to have recon immediately but women are told they are entitled to delay it, for whatever reason. I don’t want to feel pressured into having recon because of money, surgeons opinions either ... I do get the impression that they think that’s the way women should be going as no info was given about no recon at my last appt ... I had to ask the questions ... my OH noticed that too. It’s prob because of Nice guidelines and boxes have to be ticked regarding all the recon that’s offered to those who can have it.  Plus I think you have to be 100% sure about recon. Did you get the impression from your surgeon about delayed recon/funding or did you look into it prior to your op? I’ll ask when I have my appt with bcn as I’ll be interested in what she says. Have to say you’ve done marvellously well after your recon xx

Just read your post again moomy... sorry don’t know where I got the impression it was about funding although I guess that’s behind a lot of things in nhs these days. Would it be more difficult to get delayed recon because it’s not classed as urgent perhaps?

youre a mine of information xx

Hi Flossie,

I think in terms of our hard-stretched NHS it might then be regarded as a cosmetic procedure? So if you decide to go for no reconstruction at the time of your mx, I’d advise you to ensure the surgeon knows you may wish to have a later recon? 

And I was definite, I wanted that implant straight away, I think because I’d had numerous surgeries on that boob in the days they removed cysts anyway, I’d always had the possibility at the back of my mind that I might some day have to lose it, therefore had the thought about implant in my mind anyway. 

Hugs xxx

Mommy ... I was told I could address recon later if I wished. We are entitled to recon whether immediate or delayed. I’ve some family history of bc, had biopsy at 30 but never crossed my mind if bc caught up with me I would have recon. xx

Sorry ... Moomy 

I’m glad you have already been given that option, Flossie (and no worries about the mis-type!, I’ve often answered to ‘hey, you!’) 

Hugs xxx

That should be de stressed Eddiboy.... good job that caught my eye xx

Rather than boring those of you on the ‘ Walking’ thread I thought I’d answer Bombe questions here on my thread, from WhatHappened;

No, I hate Sudoku and get impatient with Rubiks cubes....I used to use movement analysis in my work as an OT so using logic and analysis is ok. 

When we both retired there was a plea for folk to become guides at Bletchley Park so we duly joined up, learnt much of the fascinating history and followed up on an internal advert for Bombe Operators. Turns out I’m the First Lady to be trained since WW2! (Don’t know why First Lady has capital letters!) 

The Bombe looks for a complete open circuit in what is fed in, guesswork to form a ‘crib’ or possible phrase attack to the gobbledegook in the Enigma message, a menu is formed from it and then the Bombe is duly plugged and drummed, takes about 15 minutes maximum to run through all possible permutations, leaving with a few possibles, which have to be checked to see if there is anything worth going further. Then is something akin to simultaneous equations, logic and process of elimination to find the settings. The Bombe helps by (if all else is the right guess - which the Cribsters got very good at!) finding one of the plug leads and, if the drum orders are correct, you’ve got the rotor orders used. Then you’ve settings for one network out of between 50 and 70, just for that 24 hours....lots of work needed!

Differing networks were careful or sloppy in setting their machines up to the rules, depending on how secure they regarded the Enigma machines to be, German Navy were very careful and made up and carefully used even more rules, like bigram tables, whereas Luftwaffe were sloppier! 

Hugs xxx