Hi August ladies
Day 9 of final T and been GP for my cough and cold and red hot rash on my cheeks and eye lids so now have antibiotics and allergy tablets and cream. Cough seems to be worse at night!
Taste buds still crap. Rib eye didnt taste of anything
Yet Wotsits taste good!
Daughter cooking, washing, ironing, hoovering and making drinks. Ive hardly left my bedroom today getting waited on. Uni has been good for her?
Good luck to those who have treatment this week and well done to those who have finished and waiting for ops and rads.
Happy new year when it comes August ĺadies. Heres to a healthy 2018 for us all .
Hoping i can manage a wee glass of something to see the back of 2017. X?
Happy new year Sib and all other August ladies. I think we will all be glad to see the back of 2017. Here’s hoping 2018 is a better, healthier year for us all xx
Happy New Year ladies. May we all be blessed with good health and a good quality of life after treatment. Hope you managed to celebrate a double celebration too, no more chemo! Yay!!!??
Butterfly, good luck for your last session tomorrow. It’s been a long time coming but you have finally got to the finish line. I hope you have minimal SEs his time.
I’m 6 weeks from my last chemo, 2 from my lumpectomy and I feel more tired than ever. I don’t get my results until next week. I’m very anxious about it as, although my surgeon couldn’t see the lump on US, the radiologist had no problem when inserting the wire, so it was definitely still there.
I saw my oncogist today and he will refer me for radiotherapy as soon as my surgeon signs me off. I’m having 20 sessions, 15 normal and 5 targeted.
Yes the waiting is so hard. I had my lymph node surgery before chemo. She was confident it was clear so only took the sentinel node and luckily she was right. So just the results from the lumpectomy to come.
It’s a really hard decision you have to make. I hope the PET scan shows that the chemo has seen off the bone met. It’s good that you have your surgery date. I found it helped to be able to focus on the next step. Will you be having radiotherapy or will it depend on which operation you have?
They are giving me so much radiotherapy due to my age (48) and that I’m TN so that’s the end of treatment options for me.
Hi Ali and everyone having rads no 18 today can’t believe im finished on Tuesday feeling strange!! I was given plan of 15 regular rads 5 targeted as im 46 TN with 1 lymph node involvement the rads are doable but coupled with the existing fatigue from chemo my surgery was at the beginning then like you Ali thats it no scans nothing just a onc and surgeon meetings in feb yearly mammo and onc appointments for 5 year monitoring ?
Butterfly best of luck making your decision its not easy but im sure your team will advise you on best options for you xx
Sib glad your near the finish line too the rads are very doable abd go over quickly but give in to the fatigue as it does grt you in the end best not to fight it!!!
Happy New Year Beauts!!
Well done to those coming to the end of chemo! You made it!!
I had my meeting with the surgeon yesterday, the lump has shrunk enough for a lumpectomy so that’s happening next Friday!! Eek!! A little nervous as it’s my first operation ever.
Well hello… I hope you are all doing well. I haven’t been on lately, I just wanted to forget and spend time with my kids over Xmas and new year after last chemo on 27th November… mammogram just before Xmas showed complete response so that was a nice Xmas pressie, I had my lumpectomy and sentinal node taken yesterday so am resting up!! Surgeon is saying they are optimistic for path results… now just to recover and on to rads, another 13 herceptin and hormone tabs, also hoping to have ovaries removed as even though I’m only 31 I have 3 kids… what a rubbish year 2017 was but hopefully we have all finished chemo and are over the worse xxx
Hello ladies. Lovely to read all your posts. Unfortunately i find it difficult to respond as i have lost all but 2 of my fingernails now and its so debilitating!
Last chemo scheduled for 17th Jan, have never been this close and actually have mixed feelings about ending chemo, its been such a long hard road since start on 2nd August 2017, but its became a part of my life, am I strange?
Still have Herceptin till November plus bone strengthening and tamoxifen for 10 year’s.
Saw my onc on Wednesday and as inhaf mastectomy in june due to my tumour being 48mm and unlikely to shrink with chemo i dont know how well chemo has worked, as it was my insurance policy! Though he did say there is evidence to suggest people who get a lot of side effects mean chemo is doing what its supposed to do. As my tumour was removed with clear margins and my tumour was on left side, im not getting radiotherapy as they benefits do not out way risks, especially to my heart.
Still need my ovaries removed and further mastectomy plus diep reconstruction due to braca2 gene, this will be in a few months when i have recovered!
Almostvat stage of moving forward now, not sure how I will do this as I have completely isolated myself since diagnosis and told as few people as possible.
Love to you all we can see the finish line now. Xxxx
Jo, good luck for your op on Friday and congratulations on the shrinkage. You will be in and out before you know it. The worst part for me was the canula as I have no veins left. Are you having nodes tested at the same time?
Sib, I struggled when I got to the end of chemo too. Before my least session I was bursting into tears all the time. I felt much better once it was done. Not long now and you will be finished too. Your nails sound really sore. I hope they grow back soon.
Fairy, how are you doing after your surgery? Butterfly, how did your last session go? I hope your SEs are minimal.
Mishy have you been managing to work through your rads? I’m supposed to be going back to work next week but I’m worried about the fatigue when I start.
Love to you all xx
Hi Sib, so sorry you have lost 2 of your nails. This treatment really does take it out of us and affect how we are and feel and how we deal with it all.
Ive sacked a couple of people from my life yet a few ormthers have stepped up. My way was to talk about it with who I want when I want and even though I know it would cause people to talk, what they dont hear from my mouth doesnt mean anything, but even though my confidence went lower my perspective on life and people has changed, for the better, and for me. I now do not try to please people like b4 and do not go out of the way to do things. I cant and I wont yet I will still do what I can if I want to. Its all about ME!
I found the 8 week course at my local centre really helped me to talk about it and open up and even at work I can talk freely to regular customers. At first it was hard but now seems easier as chemo treatment is over. Even though we stilm have more treatment, we have got through this stage. I have always thought the worse in most things as have had a tough life, so I dont get shocked but now Ive gone rhe other way and being very positive and strong and not letting it beat me. As my mum whos 81 and free from colonic cancer for 10 years said’ We are warriors and will fight this battle!’ We friggin well wil!!! And we have each other to fight this??
Hope all you orher lovely ladies are coping and building up for next stage. I have my op to clear margins on 22nd January and remove lymph nodes. Hope I can shake off this cough and cold though which went but has come back.
My body is still tired and achey from the last T just b4 Xmas and its the one which seemed to affect me the most but the cough and cold didnt help and gave me red burn like rashes on my face and eyelids. All gone now but looked pretty awful.
No not working through rads figured i would get this last part done have a rest period then back feb x im too tired after all thr treatment but i am definitely looking forward to getting back to the real world!! Going back on a phased return xx
Sib what your feeling id completely normal i feel that way too its losing the security blanket of treatments appointments im not sure about last rads tomorrow then boomph thats it ?apart from a yearly mammo and onc appointments thsts me done no pills to pop nothing and im not going to lie its scary!! I hope i am not too mentally damaged by this!! I know its something i will, like everyone else who has been through this, have to come to terms with anf and pick myself up and get on with my life i just don’t want to spend it in constant fear
It certainly changes you as a person i seem to have changed im mich more aware of who i want in my life and who i don’t!! Work is a hard one i knoe how stressful a job it is and im not looking forward to going back buy know i have to, but have decided if i feel unhappy well I’ll just bloody well find something else instead i haven’t been through all of this to go back to a life of putting up and shutting up ?
Thank you everyone for support. My bcn haa booked me on moving forward course at end of February, definitely feel i need help now I was so positive at diagnosis, think chemo knocked that out of me!! X
Sib, we will have our up and down days and even tnough we have a moan we will take what they throw at us! Hang in there and every day we are one step nearer to recovery. We will do it???
I had my 4th Herceptin today and burst into tears. I think it was because I was relieved that there was no chemo. It was a strange feeling which came from nowhere. Still, it will be good to see the team every 3 weeks for 14 more.
I went for reflexology after and woke myself up with my grunt again, it was so relaxing.
Next week will have a facial:)
xx