That’s good you have a date for surgery Kirsty, it’s much easier than chemo!
Cathsin & Camilla, I hope you’re feeling better very soon.
Runaway girl & Sam, only more to go!
Moijan, glad the port went well!
Karebear, I was going to ask my BCN about counselling too. Although the physical side effects get better, the mental ones still linger ?
Big hugs to you all ? xx
So glad to see that some of us are now coming out the other side!
I just dread the feeling of next week … just got to get through that first and hopefully will start to feel the same.
Great news on the speedy surgery Kirsty! I am yet to meet my surgeon so not sure what my plan is? Like you though I havnt yet had any kind of lymph node biopsy so I’m hoping I’m not in for a nasty surprise when they do that… :-I
Runawaygirl - there is a definite SE pattern isn’t there! Part of me hopes that round 6 will be ‘ok’ but then the rational part of me knows it has been the same for the last 5 and it’s very unlikely to be any better for number 6!!
My SE at the moment is a streaming runny nose! The Herceptin means I’m permanently glued to my box of tissues!!
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Glad to see some of you coming out the other side! I’ve got chemo Friday, and next Friday, then (ABW) that’s that bit done! Got an MRI scan Easter Monday, then rads planning 17th Apr. I’m semi ‘back to work’ next week - working from home on some writing! :-)
Neut level 2.1 homeward bound for me
They reducing my last chemo level as expectation is that cancer has already gone x
Ah hopefully the side effects will be kinder to you Cathsin! Have you had your surgery yet? Or are you going straight onto rads? Xx
After having temperature overnight and high heart rate I was at the Oncology Assessent Unit by 8am this morning. Temp kept rising to 38.5°C but after IV antibiotics it started to slowly come down. All full bloods showed everything is fine and Im not neutropenic (maybe that’s thanks to GCSF injections), chest xray clear and no bacterial infection shown in bloods. Viral swab done but will take 48hrs for the results.
Sent home at 3pm and to take paracetamol regularly and plenty of fluids and rest. Sinuses are starting to become congested so maybes a cold has been in the making the last couple of days. Need to get it shifted for 6th chemo cycle on 30th March!
Moijan I have no expectations at all I am only thinking about today and this stage of the process to be honest the thought of thinking past that scares me
Sam I have appt with surgeon on 28th then rads after surgery
Runwaygirl hope you recover suitably for no 6 we just need to get it boxed off now don’t we x
That’s great news cathsin ?
Runaway girl, I hope you’re feeling better & that next weeks chemo can go ahead ?
Camilla, hope you’re starting to feel better too & have some cream for that heel.
Sam, my nose has streamed throughout the whole of chemo, there are tissues everywhere & I still have lovely dry flaky skin on my nose from it! ??
I had a PET scan this morning to check on this lung nodule, it’s awful how you convince yourself they’re going to find all sorts ?
Hope everyone is doing ok & that you manage to have a good weekend xx
Its a bit surreal that some of us are talking about finishing chemo and starting radiotherapy
It’s been quite a journey for some of you.
I feel quite lucky I’ve avoided hospital & infections SO FAR.
Am feeling ok so am going to open a bottle of prosecco I’ll not really taste it but i dont care
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This thread seems to have been quiet of late - I hope everyone is OK and not suffering with too many S/E’s!
I’ve been to the hospital this morning to see the Oncologist ahead of the 6th and final chemo this coming Friday and providing I am still recovering from this viral infection it will go ahead as planned :smileyhappy:
I did find another lump in the same breast as the removed tumour so asked the Oncologist to have a feel of it. I was sent over for an ultrasound and thankfully the scan showed the lump as not one but 2 cysts side by side so they drained them off - the relief was immense as I’ve spent the last 5 days fretting about it! :smileyvery-happy:
Happy to report that my head hair also seems to be regrowing albeit it fine baby hair - not sure if as a result of reduced chemo dose on cycle 5 but great to know that my hair will regrow!
Hope everyone is OK.
Iv been counting down to tomorrow since the end of November… yet now it’s here- I don’t want to go!! I don’t want the 12 days of feeling horrendous. I don’t like people saying ‘oh it’s done’ — I panic thinking ‘what if it comes back and I have to do it again’ … I’m scared that chemo is now over.
All total contradictions but I don’t even know what I want!!!
Arghhh ??
Anyone else felling like this about their ‘last’ chemo?!??
Xx
Morning ladies,it has been a little quiet hasnt it!
Thank god it was cysts runnaway girl what a releif! Hope the viral infection passes soon!
Oh dear what a nighrmare dropping your phone down the toilet unicorngirlmummy ?? I hope its recovers
Sam I was exactly the same, thought id want to celebrate but I felt so scared and emotional on week leading up to last one, kept crying amd also felt annoyed when people keot saying, well done thats it done! All I kept thinking is,it could come back. Now that im 12 days into the last cycle tho, I can say im back to feeling a lot more positive and i am now happy chemo is done. Apparently its quite common to feel like that on lead up to last
so this cycle only needed 2 days off work at the start and have had very little side effects, so pleased I can feel normal on this one after the 4 hospital trips on round 4 and 5 ?
Now its my surgery pathology im worried about and obsessing over, dreaming about pathology results and eveeything ?? xx
Enjoy your time with your friends Camilla ?
Good luck today Sam. I think it’s normal to feel like that, I know I felt the same. As you start to feel more yourself & as life gradually gets back to normal those feelings do get better. I think being in this situation we are all going to have those thoughts.
I hope everyone is ok xx
Hope everyone is OK and has a good bank holiday weekend!
6th and final chemo for me this afternoon. Mixture of emotions from being nervous to giddy to anxious!!
Good luck runawaygirl!! Last one in this stage of the treatment ?
Im at work today as we dont close for good Friday ? but wr are closed on Monday so still a long weekend ? xx
Good luck runaway girl my last one is next Wednesday . Got date for my operation as well it’s 3rd May . That appointment was s bit of a shock when surgeon said how is my Lymphoma being managed ? My response was nobody has told me I had lymphoma !!! He checked the notes and said oh yes it came back negative …
Did anyone watch ladies full Monty. I found it very emotional but brilliant. It’s funny that they had the same feelings as I have had and said the same things that I have said to family and friends
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Morning!
Good luck today runaway girl!
Hopefully work will be relatively quiet Kirsty!
My last chemo was 6 weeks ago & I’ve lost more eyelashes ? my taste is back to normal & energy levels are getting better. My husband has man flu & has probably complained more in the last few days about his cold, than what I did throughout the whole of surgery & chemo!!! ?
I hope everyone is doing ok & manages to enjoy the bank holiday weekend xx
Kirsty having a lumpectomy got 2 areas to remove one is the area of cancer and the other is a intermammory lymphnode that was taken by the cancer and some lymphnodes as well . Yes I felt physically sick when surgeon said that and it rendered my husband speechless who’s is a rare occourance x
The full monty girls and boys did an excellent job if it helps some people get checked out that’s a bonus .
I will tell you a story about a friend of mine . When I got my diagnosis she said I missed my nammogram it was in September . When she checked it was due Sept 16 . I told her she needed to get checked straight away . When she got her results she text me and said it looks like we are not going to be chemo buddies after all … I am still in shock over her comment x