Well it’s fifteen months since dx and had the full monty, still on herceptin. VERY sparse eyelashes watery eyes and scanty eyebrows but I AM HERE !!! This week I started swimming again and yesterday got my chicken chaser out and went a ride on it. I have blow dried my hair for the first time and at last I don’t look scary. Fringe a bit short but who cares. I have put all my seeds in pots and blitzed the garden. Life is more or less back to normal. I do have my down days mostly when I have been on here and I read of bad/sad news and I know that someone out there is really struggling. I have decided although not great prognosis, that I will try my hardest to be happy and enjoy every day. So to anyone reading this who is struggling going through chemotherapy hang on in there. The support I have had from this site and lovely lady from St Helens ( thanks BCC) got me through a bad time. Who knows what the future holds for any of us. I think the worst thing is the odd twinges and pains, I have one now in my head!!! Oh here I go mithering now… does that ever stop? Love to all Eileen
Good for you Eileen, nice to hear you’ve come through it smiling. It seems a long time with no eyelashes though, are they that slow to return?
As for the watery eyes, you have my sympathy, since chemo started (had 3 of 6) mys eyes (and nose) are constantly watering & running, I can’t go anywhere without a pocketful of tissues. Never again will I curse God for giving me nose hairs, now I know what they are for!
Live for today, that’s my motto. Make the most of what you have & it sounds like you are doing that very well.
Take care
Thelma xxx
Great to hear from you again Eileen.I stillhave no eyebrows[10 months since chemo]but lashes are growing.Aches and pains are scary,I feel I cant keep taking my back to doc as she,onc and bcn all say its muscular but every day theres a twinge and some days the pain doesnt go till I’ve rested for a couple of hours-usually after lifting 18 month old grandson a few times!Still at least I’m having him 1 day a week now.A year ago I didnt think that would ever happen.I try to keep fear to the back of my life but sometimes…
It is good to hear from you again Eileen and to meet you Thelma …and fancy meeting you here, Horace! I’m glad things are getting better for you Eileen - I too am on herceptin and my dx was about the same time as you. I swing between thinking about what it was like last year when I was starting my chemo (and being hugely relieved that it’s all over) to thinking about what’s to come. Like you, I’m rediscovering my garden and am starting to do more than I could last year. I’m training for the Half Moon Walk - and although it’s agony, i’m getting a great sense of achievement. Life is generally good, but it’s tricky to do a lot of things with all my fingers and toes crossed!
Sarah
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