Any advice welcomed

hi

wow

I just read the other post, that's a lot to take in ...

we're here for you

I do have lots of things I wish I'd known, in fact I was saying earlier that I wasn't warned about the diarrhoea and constipation. 

I also posted a thread about eyebrows just last night, a small rave about eyebrow products. it's probably moved to page two of the posts now. 

hugs to you and your family, you can do this.

Carolyn

xxxx

hi

wow

I just read the other post, that's a lot to take in ...

we're here for you

I do have lots of things I wish I'd known, in fact I was saying earlier that I wasn't warned about the diarrhoea and constipation. 

I also posted a thread about eyebrows just last night, a small rave about eyebrow products. it's probably moved to page two of the posts now. 

hugs to you and your family, you can do this.

Carolyn

xxxx

Hi 

What a wonderful daughter you are and so very thoughtful. Yes I had my eyebrows micro bladed and was very pleased I did. One of my friends made me a pack of useful things, like lip salve, hand cream, soft fruity sweets, chocolate, little packs of hand wipes, nice tissues, chewing gum etc.     You can often get some samples from makeup counters if you ask ( Clarins are good).     I also wish someone had told me the venflons they use for chemo are small and if hair loss is expected it happens about 14 days after first chemo.  I will leave it there as I’m sure others will have ideas too.                 Having your support will be amazing, but be kind to yourself too xx

Thank you so much Carolyn x

Thank you so much Cate22 xx

Hello Popsy2019

Wow.

You are a great daughter to be showing such concern and practical help. I haven't had chemo, only surgery, but.... .list all your questions to the oncology team  , check up if at a later stage you don't get an expected appointment. I left it far too long before questioning , through my son, why I hadn't  received an appointment for radiotherapy, Big panic from the breast care team because it was human error (not from them) and I was 11 weeks late for for starting treatment. So push hard if you have to. Try to make the visits to a  hospital appointment part of a better day. My grand daughter and her mom took me to a garden centre for a cream tea and a bit of shopping after my first MRI and it helped so much to make life seem more normal

  Funnily enough I was thinking yesterday that we should have a permanent site for THINGS i WISH i HAD KNOWN,   Maybe the great team running this site could consider it as the problem is that posts get moved on and the information moves away also.

I thought of it because I read a post from someone who wanted help with radiotherapy, and I had posted months earlier about water gel to protect the skin, but it had moved on with all the hundreds of posts we do.

God bless and good luck.

Excellent idea to have a site "THINGS I WISH I HAD KNOWN", I certainly could have done with knowing so much before my treatment started, only found this site after treatment. 

Thank you Calador x

Morning London-based

Where's my water feature this morning.?

Just had your favourite fireman in my bedroom this morning. Granddaughter very enthusiastic!

Good to know she takes after me in some ways.

Whoops,that should be on the Awake thread, for LondonLass.