Hi Lovewine and Rosie. No tissue expander as I will have diep recon next year. To be honest id have stayed in last night if I got sleep but the night nurse who did the obs was no noisy and had nearly all the lights on felt like I was undergoing sleep deprecation I jumped at chance to get out.
Yes plan to celebrate birthday next week. Pain is not so bad but very sharp and shooting whe they come still could be worst
Afternoon everyone, back at work today and have definitely benefitted from my day off as I am not so tired. I would have to agree with everyone that it is nice to have some normality, it is just getting the balance right between work and rest that can be difficult I think.
This evening I am going with OH to do the food shop at Sainsburys. This used to be my weekly routine but I have only been doing it once every three weeks for the last four months. I quite enjoy it 
Lovewine I am glad you had a clear explanation from the surgeon of what will be done, I think Rosie is right that we have come through so much we will be able to cope with what comes next as well, but I remember how apprehensive I was about my surgery and yet it was fine.
Jos sorry to hear you have other problems on top of coping with treatment, I hope you will get the support you need
Booksandwine, nice to hear from you, glad your op is over and has gone well, now you are home you can concentrate on healing. Drains eh? I had to make a huge effort to remember to pick them up when I moved.
It sounds as though everyone is making slow progress back to wellness. Hope today has been a good one for you all
Booksandwine, great to hear from you. Not the best birthday present in the world but you seem very stoical about it. Hospitals are probably the worst place to sleep, I’m not surprised you decided to cone home, hope you are able to sleep with the drains and that the pains you describe diminish/are bearable with medication. Do you have to have radiotherapy or any other form of treatment, other than reconstruction?
Jackie, I don’t much like gruesome so my suggestions may not be to your taste. Guess you have read all the Swedish Noir books. Have you read Jeffrey Deaver- the Bone Collector is probably his most gruesome. More conventionally I have enjoyed Peter Mays Lewis trilogy, set on Lewis and his China series. Ann cleeves Shetland trilogy too and a series set in Quebec by Louise Penny, the Inspector Gamache series. Good luck for your meeting on the 18th.
Jos, sorry you are having to deal with other issues as well as the effects of treatment. Hope things improve for you soon. I still have the weepy eyes and virtually no eyelashes but hoping no further reduction in eyebrows.
Lovewine, glad you now have a date for your surgery and know what they are going to do.
Rosie, I wish you hadn’t explained what you meant by shady bars. I much prefer to think of you in a dive, perhaps surrounded by Humphrey Bogart types. Sorry to hear the tissue expanders are uncomfortable. Is that to be expected or do you need to check it out?
I feel surprisingly well today. Partly, I suspect because I slept for 9 hours, uninterrupted, last night. Wonderful. Even managing to put aside, at least for the moment, my anxiety about seeing the surgeon next week for my results.
Has anyone in the group had a lumpectomy without lymph node removal. I am wondering whether I need to do exercises. The advice I have had is a bit non-commital, wouldn’t do any harm but probably not necessary but a woman I know locally said she had some mobility problems afterwards and was told she should have done exercises.
Hi Joan, good to hear from you, I had lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy but not the full lymph node clearance and I was advised to do the exercises. they removed 4 nodes through the same incision that was used for the lumpectomy. I think the exercises helped, I felt that I needed to stretch my arm and have not had any problems apart from some ongoing nerve damage which is getting better so I think the exercises were good for me.
Rosie, hope your discomfort eases soon, it’s very tiring being in discomfort all the time, I do know some ladies who have had expanders and they found it painful too. Wine tasting sounds like fun, but can understand why you didn’t want to be bouncing around on bumpy roads.
Wildpurl, you sound busy again today, I also quite like food shopping just lately! Used to hate it, hope weather dries up for your visit to national trust house at weekend.
Joan, you seem to be recovering well, it heartens me as I am having similar surgery!!
Booksandwine, what are you doing next week for your birthday? Be nice to look forward to a nice treat!
Lisa, hope your radiotherapy is going ok and you manage to get parked!!
Jos, we have enough to deal with without other problems, you sound like a strong lady- you have to be as a single mum, I admire you having a young daughter and coping with treatment etc, keep your chin up- know that’s easy for me to say as I am not in your personal circumstances, but as I said you have more strength than maybe you realise!
Well, I am drying out after my soaking out dog walking! Wanted to do some cake making after becoming hooked on " British bake off!!", but think I am more of an armchair baker, rather watch them do it on t.v I think!
Take care everyone and have a nice, relaxing evening.
Hi Jackie, must say I was taken by surprise when sent off for bloods and ECG, heart trace showed stress, I Said to nurse I am not surprised sitting half naked with a flimsy curtain being yanked open to all and sundry!
Wasn’t expecting these two procedures! I can totally relate to you saying having chemo first was a relief, I feel the same- surgery seemed far in the distance , but now it’s so close I am fretting. And yes I am having radiotherapy too! Have booked 2 nights away in a hotel in Norfolk weekend before surgery , so hoping sea air will distract me slightly!! Not sure that it will, but nice to get away.
P.s Kirsty and phil and who do you think you are for me!!
Rosie, yes am sure they had discomfort like you before saline was put in to expand! Sounds very uncomfortable for you, I agree with doom and gloom on eastenders, I stopped watching all the " soaps" a few years ago as felt they were really depressing!! And yes definitely an armchair baker too!!
Morning Rosie, oh dear a rather disturbed night, hope you will be able to get a nap later on! I’m sorry you are finding thee panders uncomfortable, I hope that will start to ease over the next few weeks as it did for me. I started driving again after 4 weeks but was still a bit stiff and uncomfortable as I recall and it doesn’t seem as though you are quite ready for that yet. Having a bilateral means you don’t have a good side so I can imagine it will take a bit longer to get back to doing things, plus you have had a bit of a bad time with the left side. But you will get there!
Today we only work 5 hours which is good, housework this afternoon I think and then a relaxing evening. I have downloaded Birdman as it was on special offer for the kindle, it is very well written, enjoying it so far.
Have good days everuone
Morning everyone, Rosie, sorry you had such a bad nights sleep, maybe you could snatch a nap in the shade later tipsy?
Wildpurl, enjoy your weekend , chicken curry and wine- lovely!!
I am at work this morning and then doing a little browsing in shops in nearest town afterwards if not too tired! Have quite a passion for charity shop bargains, we have some very good ones in market harborough, because it is an affluent area there are some great clothes etc donated! If not then will drift into " white stuff" where I am sure I will find something to catch my eye!
Have a good day everyone.
Rosie, have just read my thread back after posting and seen ipad has corrected my word to " tipsy" meant it to say today!! Although tipsy sounds more fun!
Morning Wildpurl, I really enjoyed Birdman, am now reading the second jack caffrey in the series- the treatment, I can’t put it down!! Although between the two books I read a lighter toned story just to have a bit more of a light hearted read!
Are you taking painkillers Booksandwine? Wise to celebrate birthday next week!
Ha ha Lovewine you will have me tipsy in a shady bar!!!
Sounds like fun Rosie!!!
Hope you find a bargain later in the charity shop! Lovewine!
Thankyou, am going to have a blooming good look! Found a lovely jaegar jacket for £5.00 last year and wore to youngest sons graduation and got lots of compliments!
Lovewine, hope you have success in the charity shops, which sound rather posher than the ones we have here. I’ve had charity shop fatigue since traipsing round a few years ago trying to find china and glass suitable for my daughters wedding. It was in a garden and she wanted a traditional English afternoon tea-sandwiches, scones with jam and cream, cakes. So I had to find came stands and teapots and bowls. It was great fun and gave us the excuse for outings to places with lots of charity shops and it all looked great. Then, of course, there was the problem of disposing of it. Try not to stress too much about the op, I have found the process much easier than I expected with minimal discomfort and soreness. Having a couple of days away beforehand sounds a good idea and should provide some distraction even if not total.
Rosie, one way and another it seems we want you to be leading a slightly disreputable life. Many of the corrections iPads come up with are just irritating, but others are really funny. Sorry you didn’t get a good night. Hope you can manage to doze during the day. 38degrees would certainly send me indoors for a siesta, tipsy or not!
My poor husband is on hospital and support duty again today taking his sister, who lives locally but doesn’t drive, to visit her husband who had an operation for bowel cancer yesterday. The operation was much longer than expected, he went to theatre at 3 and wasn’t back on the ward till midnight, so we are rather anxious about him. He had expected to be home at the weekend but I can’t see that happening now.
Hope everyone else is as ok as possible. Enjoy your weekends, whatever you are doing.
Hi all glad most of you are doing well. Yes I will have radiotherapy will see consultant in two weeks re this. Seeing specialist today hope to get ct tc results and get pathology report next week. Overall no pain except sharp pains underarms at tumes like a knife
Re hospital yep I got grumpy too and yelled for lights out worked for half and hour getting more sleep at home
Rosie, is it the fluid causing your temperature and pain? I do hope you get it sorted out soon, think you have put up with enough.
Jos, sorry you had a rough time with radiologist, it’s awful when you have appointments like that, it’s very upsetting when things don’t go to plan, hope you had a nice day today though with your outing and visit to your mum.
Wildpurl, hope you managed the housework!!
I ran out of time and energy for charity shopping, so will have to leave for another day,it was my dads 79th birthday today, made him a cake and went to visit him and my mum, they has been for routine doctors check up today and both are very underweight and suffering worry and stress caused by worrying about me, it really brought it home to me how this horrible disease affects our families so much too, they looked very frail all of a sudden, they have been a wonderful support to me, taking me for oncology appts when O/H can’t and generally just being there!
Joan and Booksandwine, hope you are healing well,
Hope everyone else has a pleasant weekend, cassie, hope you enjoyed Devon! Tij , you too on your holiday!