Hi Girls
I just thought I would let you know that I went in to see Sharon, shes doing really well, was happy and not in too much pain. she hopes to be out on Monday or Tuesday. Shes got a private room with her computer and will be square eyed by the time she gets out after watching loads of films that her friends have supplied.
I hope everyones doing well.
Angela
Hi Girls,
Yvonne, Pm’d you phone number and address for wigs…
ESA is employment support allowance. it’s kind of governmet sick pay. based on national insurance conts I get £64pw. it used to be called incapacity benefit…they renamed it and made it more confusing! half the staff don’t know how it works…
Sharon Looked great today, and she said she felt really good… no pain!! Joanne was there also and really nice to finally meet her, and her 2 daughters are georgous!!
well off to Liverpool tomorrow to my brothers, looking forward to the wee break, back wed…
lots of love
Fiona xxxx
Hi girls - it’s been such a lovely day. Have had a good weekend. It was Jessica’s first birthday yesterday so had a wee party for her. She was so good. She loved the birthday cake and she got loads of pressies. My daughter in law told me she is pregnant. They already have Cameron whos 3. She had a miscarriage last year so a bit nervous She’s had scan and everything seems to be ok.
Nice to get good news after my bad news last week.
So pleased Sharon has done so well. I have a card for her but don’t know her surname or addresses - she’ll probably be home soon so can’t send to hospital. Could someone let me have it.
Take care everyone
Sheila
Sheila, sorry about your news last week, take care. Congratulations on the news of becoming a gran again.
Helen, good luck with radiotherapy, bit of a drag when the kids are off school this week, it will fly in.
Yvonne, nice to see you back on again.
Sharon, good to hear you are in good spirits, hope you get home soon.
Everyone else, hope you all have a great week, I have got the delightful company of my boys, all they keep saying is what we doing, where are we going?? I really cant be bothered, still knacked after the radiotherapy
love
Carol xxx
Hi Girls
Hope everyone is OK and taking it easy. Had my pre-verification appointment today and start my frying tomorrow. As I was lying still with 3 nurses buzzing round me I couldn’t help thinking how lucky we are getting such good treatment - I know its crap we’re having to go through this, but I can’t fault any aspect of my treatment so far - well, apart from the SE’s and the awful photo on file at the Beatson, got caught mid blink - Lol! I really think I could of done with an extra week beween chemo and starting rads, as I’m shattered even before starting it.
Sheila - Happy 1st birthday to Jessica and really great news you are going to be a gran again.
Carol - Hope you had a good weekend celebrating. Any news on your sons job?
Fiona - Hope you are having a good break away.
Sharon - How are you? I hope you’re doing OK and are taking it easy. Are you staying at your mum’s when you get out of hospital.
Maggie, Annie and Yvonne - I hope you are all taking it easy.
I’m at the Beatson 9:40 for the rest of this week and 12 all next week, if anyone is there around these times and wants to meet for a coffee - let me know.
Well, off to bed now otherwise I’ll never get up in the morning - I guess the tiredness might improve if I went to bed early! Fell asleep on the settee with the lap=top on my knee several times last night, lost count of the number of times Jon told me to go to bed.
Hugs
Helen
Hi girls
I’m back, op went well not in much pain at all. Only thing I can’t believe hospital only gave me 2 days worth of medication, I had to phone my doc who was horrified, she’s making up a new prescription as we speak.
At my own home as needed the comfort of my own bed, plus i can move about and wash myself fine, I have the common sense to know what I can and can’t do. One of my neighbours has been really great and cleaned all my flat while I was away and also came up today to clean, so I am not doing a thing apart from maybe putting food in microwave to heat.
Happy birthday carol and Sheila.
Helen you’ll be fine on Rads, walk in park compared to Chemo.
Fiona - hope your enjoying your wee break
Thank you to Fiona, Pauline, Angela and Jo for the visit.
Off for a lie down
Sharon xxx
welcome back Sharon, good to hear from you again, what a lovely neighbour you have.
well ive gone and done it booked a week in Lanzarote in November with hubby and the boys, hopefully the school will understand me taking them out, Ross has still not had a letter about his apprenticeship and I got fed up waiting, so hopefully if he gets it he wont start until we come home.
Cant believe how sore my boob is this week after finnishing radiotherapy, loads of shooting pains!!! under my arm is really burned now too.
Helen, how are you going with travelling to the Beatson
Fiona hope you had a lovely break
Sheila Happy Birthday
everyone else, hope you are ok
Maggie, hope you are ok, not been on for a while
love
Carol xxxx
Hi Girls
Well, thats me 2 frying down, 27 to go! Travelling hasn’t been too bad - it’s takes just over an hour to get there. I have to admit it was a bit of an anti-climax - When the radiotherapy is actually given I had imagined a big lazer beam coming out of the machine to zap you - like something out of Dr Who or Voyager!! Think I watch too much TV! Aren’t the nurses all lovely.
Sharon - great to hear that you are home and doing OK. Keep takng it easy and accept all the help you can get.
Sheila - Happy Belated Birthday. I hope you were spoilt and had a lovely day.
Carol - Good for you booking a holiday.
Fiona - How was your break?
Maggie, Annie, Yvonne & Pauline - I hope you are all keeping well.
Take care all
Helen
Hi girls
I’m still doing well. Get wound checked tomorrow at Hairmyres.
Helen - I thought exactly the same when I started rads, maybe I’ll see you there when I start, haven’t got a date yet but know it will be ASAP.
Sheila - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!
Carol - Well done for booking the holiday, you so deserve it and need it, I thoroughly recommend it.
Hope everyone else is good
Take care for now
Sharon xx
Hi Girls,
That’s me back from my wee break which was very nice… weather was lovely which made all the difference…Ciaran had split up with his girlfriend which was sad as they had been going out for 2 years and were just like child hood sweethearts… oh well, what can you do?
Helen, you’ll be an old hand at Rads this time next week!! hope you don’t have any long waits…
Sheila, Happy Birthday… did you do something nice?
Sharon…onwards and upwards from now on!! you’ve done so well, hope your healing time is a lot better than the last one. It’s great you haven’t had much pain…
Carol, good for you booking a holiday! I’m sure you’ll have a fab time, just what you need to recharge those batteries.
well I start back at work on Tuesday!! don’t know how I feel about it all (Tired!!) I know it’s going to take me a while to get into it and I’ll just take it real easy to start with and take it from there.Not really looking forward to it!!
well the weather has turned out nice again today… doing housework, Kids gone to Braehead…just chilling out!!
Hope everyone else is doing good…
Luv “n” Hugs
Fiona xxx
Hi all
Sharon glad to hear all went well
Helen hope SE have cleared i start radioth on the 8th dec are you feeling tired on it.
No more visitors planned till next feb getting quiet in the house
so decided to go to sunny birmingham (england) on the 28th for long weekend.
Hope to go to Maggies next frid if anyone going ? still not got receipe for chocolate and beetroot cake anyone made it ? any good ?
Hope your all chillin
Yvonne
Hi Guys
Back from being awol!
Sharon, so very good that you have had surgery are home and are fighting fit. You have some constitution girl. Is the next stage rads? Are you getting chemo too? Are you getting the drug that has to be specially dispensed? You might set a percedent.
Fee, you are you sure you are well enough to go back to work? It seems awfy soon!!! Will you be seeing all your old clients? Any news on working with Sandra?
SHIELA !!! Happy birthday!!! With ribbons (any colour but pink) on!!! I’m going off pink, for some subliminal reason. Mind you, did get pink spex in July, when I thought I would be frivilous. I am seeing Dr D on Thur to see if I am fit for final chemo. Are you free later? Mind you, I can’t walk up a flight of stairs just now, so you would have to look out for the breathless auld wummin.
Carol, hope you had a great birthday. Any news on your wee lad’s job? It’s awful going through all this process and the time factors.
Here’s hoping.
i am as weak as a semi drowned kitten just now, have had the worst time on TAX, unusually so. I think I started with an infection so wasn’t up to it. Been sleeping much of the day. I had the dose reduced to 85% and the mouth has not been so bad this time, plus I had an ice lolly while being ‘infused’.
Helen, i think the same. I am non functional just now. Can’t do anything, ever firing up my laptop! If I get another TAX followed by too early by rads, I don’t know how I will manage, living alone. That is one of the thing I will bring up with Dr D on Thurs. I mentioned the tiredness that rads can bring and I just cannot afford to be be non functionalal. Answer, ‘wait and see’. I cannot walk to the bustop just now so I am not hopeful.
Och well, my feeling is the Oncs want to get you through chemo, if your necs are up to it, and my bloods are always up to it. I just hope it is worth it as these last 2 months have been awful.
There! So good to say it!
Hugs
Annie
Hi Annie, nice to have you back, you are getting there.
Sharon, how is your weekend going, when do you get your results
Helen, how are you after first week of rads, I am shedding skin for Scotland just now!!!
Fiona, good luck going back to work, even the thought of it bloody scares me
Yvonne, enjoy your weekend away.
Sheila, hope you had a great birthday
everyone else, hope you have a great weekend
Love
Carol xxx
Hi All
Well, I’ve survived my first 3 fryings!!! My skin seems to be OK so far, in fact my scar seems so much fainter and smoother. Its taking an hr door to door to get to the Beatson, so I think I’m now getting into commuter mode, as by Friday I had the radio blasting as I drove along.
I start Tamoxifan on Tuesday - when is the best time of day to take it to minimise SE’s???
Anne - you seem to be having such a hard time at the momment, how many more chemos have you got?
Yvonne - not long to go now till you finish your chemo - it’s such a huge relief to get it over with.
Carol - How long did it take before your skin started to suffer from the rads?
Fiona - sorry to hear about Ciaran’s split. Are you making the most of your last weekend before starting work?
Sharon - How are you coping, I hope you have lots of people looking after you?
Sheila - are you doing anything nice this weekend?
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Take care all
Helen
Hi Girls,
Looks like it’s going to be a rubbish week with the weather!!
Back to work today, I’m looking forward to it( I think!!)I hope I don’t get too tired as I’ve scaled things right down to settle in, but it’s the tiredness that’s hard to judge…fingers crossed anyway!!
Sheila, good luck for Today? with starting back on Chemo. I hope all goes well and that you managed to have a nice Birthday last week…you’ve been a very brave lady in coping with all the chemo’s you’ve had to endure in the past…Hope the chemo does it’s stuff quickly to shrink those tumors!!
Sharon, good to hear you’re coming along nicely!! Is it this Wed/Thurs you see the Docs?
Helen, I take my Tamoxifen last thing at night with a Glass of water, This is supposed to minimise feeling any side effects due to being asleep… I have been fine…terrible hot flushes and night sweats, but I had that on chemo and it just seems to be continuing on Tamoxifen…My hip joints ache when trying to stand up but I have started taking a cod liver oil capsules…apparently it’s the lack of eostrogen in the joints…you sort of just get used to it, it’s not too bad. Looking forward to catching up with you tomorrow, Maggie’s there for bloods so maybe be able to hook up with her too. what treatment room are you in? Text me when you’re finished.
Yvonne, would love to go to Maggie’s on Friday but I have a couple of clients to do…Ask Kirsty for the chocolate and beetroot cake recipe…she gives out copies… delicious!!!
Annie, You are doing so good!! you have come a long way and have suffered the side effects like a proper trooper!! Nearly there now, keep you’re wee chin up… Rads are fine… you’ll sail through that compared to TAX…
well Girls, better shake a tail feather!! or there’ll be no hair getting done today!!!
Lots of Hugs
Fiona xxx
Hi Fiona
I hope everything went OK today at work - just take it easy. I will probably have to dash off after my zapping tomorrow to collect Seren from Nursery, as she’s meant to finish at 1 but nursery are OK about keeping her until I get back. But I can heas through after dropping off the kids at school & nursery, so I can be through about 10:30, will you be able to meet up after seeing the onc - I’m happy to come and sit in your waiting room for a chat. What time is Maggie getting bloods?
Sheila - Just realised from Sheila’s post that you are starting your chemo today - I hope it all goes OK and it doesn’t ‘hit you’ too hard - take it easy.
Take care all
Helen
Fiona, hope you got on ok first day back at work, even the thought of going back to work scares me, well done you
Sheila, hope you got on ok with chemo
Helen, I didnt start getting a reaction to rads until the 3rd week, I have now lost all my skin under my armpit too!! its so itchy and sore
Sharon, hope you are ok and get fab results this week, you deserve some good news
hi to everyone else, cant believe how quickly its getting dark at nights now
Hubby has booked a villa for us in Lanzarote, so we can have a good chill out, im a bit nervous about going away but hopefully ill be fine when im there, we have friends that own a bar in Lanza so it will be great to catch up with them again, they stayed with us in May just before I was diagnosed
love and hugs
Carol xoxoxo
Hi Helen,
I’ll be in the clinic waiting area 2 from about 10am…chemo nurse is hoping that I get seen sooner rather than later so that if I am getting my herceptin it can be ordered up and ready for my 1pm slot in the chemo suite…but we all know it won’t happen like that and I’ll still be there at tea time tomorrow!!! ever the optamist me?!!
Text me anyway… we’ll find one another… not sure what time Maggie’s there, will go on FB and ask her…
Work went well, really enjoyed it and I was transported back to a time before all this rubbish happened… working definately makes me feel more normal…just wish the body would hurry up and catch up!!
Love and hugs to everyone
Fiona xxxx
Hi Fiona
What line is the clinic on? I’ll txt you when I arrive and hopefully will be able to find you.
See you tomorrow.
Helen
Doooh! meant to say ‘What floor is your clinic waiting area 2 on’