ha ha lols love it!
Nice one Tash with the rioja like your style.
Thanks Coco and thanks also to Mel good to hear you are emerging like a beautiful butterfly at the other end of this nightmare
I want 2013 to just Eff off!!!
Who else is stepping up to the plate this week?
Jacqui are you the next one on the 2nd or is there anyone else beforehand???
PS Meg/ Coco your cat is proper cute. Is that where your username is from???
Looks like we have loads of animal lovers on here.
I disagree when people say you are either a dog or cat person as I love them both.
Penny is on holiday and she has the list but I’m pretty sure it’s you and Jacqui this week
thanks Lois, he really means well Im just being hard to live with.
rapidlash was about £40, cancer isn’t cheap is it?!
have we all got parking permits for the hospital, I haven’t managed to pin anyone down to get one yet xxx
Yeah coco I meant to ask that too? I’m animal mad love them , hate animal cruelty. My profile name was going to be lollipop my dogs called holly but we call her lollypop or lols. Couldn’t use lollipop or holly already been used, so it’s lols.x
got 2 ex battery hens as well, not to eat just for them to have a little bit of the good life, had a few but they tend to get a lot of heart failure due to being overworked, never thought as a nurse I’d be given hens beta blockers prescribed by vet!!!x
Lols sorry I’m so blind I thought it said Lois. What am I going to be like AFTER poisoning?! Xx
Ive just gone through our posts we now have 22 members
Welcome to Chrissy W, Helin, Karen H and Daisymegan. Sorry if missed anyone
Yes this week is me tomorrow, and Jacqui on Fri with maybe Daisymegan.
Annie you and Penny are week after arent you???
with you lols on the animal cruelty. We alll seem so lovely and caring so why is it s**t things happen to good people???
It angers me so much that you get absolute pondlife walking around and eff all happens to them!
Someone needs to have a word with the big Guy upstairs as life seems arse upwards to me!
hi girls, I had just written quite a lot and then tabbed up to check dates and now it is gone!! Grrr…again! I have my info session tomorrow and then as you say start on Friday Chez, next ones I can see are Penny crow and Annie on 7th and 8th, Daisy your date not confirmed yet I don’t think? Welcome to all our newest recruits, keep posting girls I am sure we can be a great help and support to each other! Thank to our poppers in from other months too it is very reassuring! I had a lovely Private message from a lady having identical chemo and herceptin to me which helped no end! I will try to look out for people in later months and pass on the glad tidings, that is unless I am one of the unlucky ones in which case I won’t scare people!!
you girls are a lot more organised than me! I made a note to get a script for omeprazole, low alcohol mouthwash corsodyl that Annie mentioned and I have naked shampoo and cond and a lovely silk pillow case from amazon but I really look a prat in a scarf, I have a very wide forehead so think I will just stick to my wig and furry deputy dawg hat for dog walking!
My last “normal” weekend pre chemo, scary thought but as has been said we will look back on 2013 as a rubbish year but one that we are now through, and hopefully moving on from. Can’t say cancer was ever on my to do list but hey we can’t choose the hands we’re dealt!
Lols I had seroma drained 3 times and I found wearing good fitting bra with softy helped, also cold flannel and I read a link to self lymphatic drainage which I will dig out for you if you fancy a go? It is very gentle pressure and moves the lymph from your affected side to the good one, it does seem to help and is very relaxing!
Right feel like I have been typing for ages, doing it twice hasn’t helped! Good luck for tomorrow Chez we will all be thinking of you I’m sure! Sleep well Amazings, night
Jacquie x
thanks Jacqui
Lols just thought of something then when reading what Jacqui said bout a cold flannel. What about a cold cabbage leaf?? Like when you have just had a baby and your boobs kill you they always say to put a cold cabbage leaf in your bra dont they.
Hey you never know!!
Hi Jacquie,
I’ve had my seroma drained four times and Tuesday will be the fifth! Doesn’t seem to be going down at all, although this is after ANC not mx when I had no problems. It is rather depressing, because it gets more uncomfortable as the week goes on, and I’ll only have one more appointment until chemo starts on 8th. Just another problem to cope with on top of everything else…
Good luck to everyone with any sort of appointment this coming week - my diary’s never been so full. Good job I actually bought one this year… 
Annie x
hi Chezzap i am also am having the feeling that this bloody cancer is going to stalk me forever and difficult to shake off these thoughts and feelings . This site has been an absolute Godsend and I feel I am letting everyone down .Having a right good bawl writing this hopefully I will feel better after it . GiLL X
Ok il send OH for a cabbage tomorrow ( he will say be jesus that’s a terrible waste of a cabbage so!!) to be said in southern Irish accent. He’s mad about cabbage, bacon and potatoes!! Its their childhood food where he comes from in Ireland.
jacquie I’d like to see the lymph drainage thing anythings worth a try feel like Dolly Parton at mo, I havnt got small boobs but this is ott!
good luck everyone with all appts this week , sounds like we are up and running from tomorrow, all sleep well, sweet dreams xx
Good luck to everyone starting chemo this week. Will be thinking about you x
Morning ladies!
Good luck for today Chezzap! Ive heard to that it gets busy at Christies but hopefully you wont be there all day. Xx
venice25 i totally understand how you feel about feeling like cancer is stalking you, but sometimes having a good cry and letting your thoughts out on here does help so hopefully today you feel better 
Lynsey xx
Morning ladies,
Chezza good luck today.
Venice and chezza, you are not alone thinking you will be stalked, I feel exactly the same. Had a little melt down last night (last night with Oh as I am down where he is working) kept going on how unfair it is that I have it, I am a good person. He said everyone has some shit to deal with. I said but we have been through so much together(won’t bore you with details) it really isn’t fair. At which point he says no more just cuddles me cos he knows nothing will change how I feel.
anyway
Bugger I hadn’t finished the message not sure what happened there!
Anyway, on a more positive note am looking forward to my online shopping later. Really need to keep up with those of you are ahead(ha ha) in the fashion stakes. Mind you after all your shopping they maybe sold out.
I do have a wig already, wait for it ladies, I brought it for just incase before I even knew I was having chemo. Now ladies what would you expect when you only pay £7? Well I was amazed it’s bloody great, a little lighter than my own hair and it needs a bit of shaping but really it’s ok. And a sight better than the red clowns wig my son said he would get me!
Have a good day ladies, need to get my arse moving as I am going home today and praying for bcn to ring to say pack your case for Portugal.
love to you all xxxx
Morning Amazings! I think we are all bound to have meltdowns at times, it is the worst health issue I have ever had to deal with that’s for sure! Moan and rant to us though cos we can truly say we know how you feel, luckily for them our nearest and dearest can only imagine!
Anyway came on to post your link Lols:
Found it on the thread fluid build up/seroma post op feel like growing new breast! #4 post by sdfmeg.
httpi//www.gloshospitals.org.uk/sharePoints/Patient% 20Information% 20Leaflets/GHP10833.pdf
I printed off the leaflet and it did help also massage up the arm to axilla, did you see the steroids during chemo also help? Have a good day all of you I will share any pearls from my info session this aft.
Take care Jacquie x
Samjs, I too have had so much stress, grief and upset in my life ad have only found true happiness in the last couple of years. Someone told me that stress was probably a big contributary factor. Maybe that is why I have just accepted it and get on with it as best I can. It just feels like “oh well, throw something else at me why dont you”. My head is down and my arse is up and I will plough through one day at a time. I do cry and the next time will be when I go for my pre chemo appt on Thursday I am sure, but then I will get on with the next bit. Thats all any of us can do.
Chezza, good luck today, will be thinking of you, chin up girl, do it with a smile on your face xxx
Confession time ladies:
I was drunk last night so that helped cause the meltdown but in my defence, it was OH idea to help me sleep and Lols agreed with him! Good job I have no hangover today Lols, cos I would have blamed you both!
xx
Hi girls, don’t blame you Sam having a drink blame away Hun, have safe journey home.
thanks for info jacguie Ive still got 3 boobs this morn shouldn’t complain really not on here cos of all who have had mx, sorry girls I know that’s much worse xx
chezz you will be there now, so hope all goes ok.
sam , gilly I’m 100 percent sure with me anyhow that it’s stress that’s caused this, I’ve had some really shit years too and things only got better last few years, it’s like you start to relax and boom your body doesn’t fight back and these little crappy cells take over!!! My son used to have massive poster in his room and wouldn’t let me take it down even when I had to sell my house and people where viewing it just said SHIT HAPPENS!, every woman who viewed house just said how true!! Had scary dreams last night I was writing goodbye letters woke up crying, it doesn’t matter how positive you stay your mind takes over. Right enough morbid stuff lets all hold hands and get this week over, we are at the bottom of the mountain that’s all, we will soon be at the top and think of of the view girls, and we will have one hell of a party and throw our wigs, hats etc in the air.
all with appts today good luck. xx
Think we should have theme tune for our group. My suggestion is, ain’t no mountain high enough.
Lols don’t worry about those letters I would have been more upset if you had still been writing letters to Santa, especially at your age! Smile!
xxx