It seems I'm a patient now!

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But not a very patient one! 

I've at least got a diagnosis, it's invasive ductal cancer grade 2, but still small, oestrogen receptive but looks as if I might get away with the lymph nodes....and maybe not too much treatment afterwards? 

Complex plan, but to begin with, a sentinel node (plus another one or so) removal as day surgery, (a nuclear medicine visit first to get 'the jab' for them to trace) then a gap while that,  plus the HER result come back, then because of my previous surgeries for cysts and the fact one resulted in a massive haematoma, therefore scar tissue, I will have a complete mastectomy with an implant. That will be immediately after Easter. 

By finding out as much as possible beforehand, the surgeon hopes to prevent too many operations. Obviously I will then need Tamoxifen or similar, so will appreciate helpful advice about that. 

But I'd be interested on anyone's 'take' on her plan. I feel reassured that she took time with me, and the BC nurse afterwards spent a good while too. 

Hugs xxx

  • Went back to my vax info, I have a red patch near the injection site but it seems it’s quite common, 1 in 10. So I won’t worry. 

    it seems next door kids are home alone, secondary school has a strike day. 

    Hugs xxx

    Moomy

  • After choir I drove off to a nursery in a village nearby, got a couple of bags of compost and a Rudbeckia plant (I weakened as I love them!) 

    Managed to get the compost in before it began to rain. 

    Goldie told me she needs AdBlue but that will have to wait till it stopped raining!

    Hugs xxx

    Moomy

  • Managed to get a moment while it was just drizzling and planted the Rudbeckia. Well at least I did apologise to it as it’s to cover the stump of a dead tree and it was a pain to get a deep enough hole, it’s almost deep enough, I raked the removed soil raising the ground a teeny bit around it. Trod well in…..and told it to grow.

    Hugs xxx

    Moomy

  • Wow  ive whisked through the last 3 days of your messages! Hope booster is calming down now. Great work with gardening too.

    in the last 2 weeks I’ve had wonderful therapy. ‘My cancer, my choices’ have offered and I’ve had reflexology and aromatherapy. L learning more things about my body….then today I had 1st of yoga therapy which was amazing! She is worth the money, a good rate.

    she’s helping me with bending, with the hip pains and lower back pain, felt so good. Reflexology showed something around my coccyx, she also found something about my neck, it’s creaky, so yoga trainer will look at that next week.

    she finished with a visualisation, I’ve experienced many of those in different forms, she said a sieve starts on my head and then sieves anything I notice as the sieve moves down my body. Passing over my head and neck I found that emotional. I also noticed other things that were caught in the sieve and they all went onto the compost heap. 
    so fascinating….

    yes some grandchildren were off today, strikes. Daughter is beginning work again, 2 weeks of 4 hours, next 2 are 6 hours. (She’s part time usually works 2x10 hr shifts)

    live done a bit of gardening, all fruit bushes have leaves so survived the winter yay!

    jay x

  •    that session sounds amazing and so emotionally healing. Great that your daughter has improved enough to start back part time, I hope she doesn’t rush into full time too quickly. 

    I’ve had a quiet tv evening. That seems to be my new norm, trying to stay busy some of each day and then a quiet evening. 

    Daughter has mostly recovered from her second bout with Covid (but I still worry of course) but she still has an annoying lingering cough and sinuses blocked. Hope that will clear soon as she’s beginning working again, mostly at home at present but she (and son too) have a gig together, tomorrow. It’s at the London Coliseum. She had a track played in Radio 2 last evening! So very proud of them both.

    Hugs xxx

    Moomy

  • Daughter says her new single was played again last night and will be played again this evening, both times on BBC3CR! 

    Hugs xxx

    Moomy

  • That is fantastic. We'll done to your daughter moomy x

  • How lovely that your son and daughter have a gig together at the coliseum!

    We sang at the Coliseum in 2006 with the opera group.Lots  of singing groups were there. We each did our own short performance, and then all joined together  for excerpts from Peter Grimes, and a new work whose name escapes me. We met the composer. Wonderful experience. Xx

    Onwards and flatwards (don't do hills) and keep walking if you can!

  • Today I’ve potted on the rosemary and netted against the cats (!) I’ve also topped up the 6 tomato plants with the new compost. Then I went to put adblue in Goldie. Ended up with a small watering can. But then (google of course) I looked on line, the 10 litre bottle I had has a short-ish nozzle, it doesn’t push open the flap a little way down the adblue filler. So the next container I get will need a longer nozzle which of course I will then keep. 

    Asked a neighbour how his wife is, she had her second hip replacement last Saturday, sh was only in hospital for one night, and although frustrated with inactivity, she’s doing really well and is on track for recovery. 

    Hugs xxx

    Moomy

  • And this afternoon I walked into town to the AgeUK charity shop with a shelf full of oddments and ornaments which they were delighted with! I started looking at the paperbacks and chose a couple of short books and they refused to take anything for them! Bless. 

    Blossom really coming out now, so pretty to see


    hugs xxx

    Moomy