Hi Girls
It’s been good to read your posts. I don’t feel so ‘alone’ now.
I’ve been getting ‘low’ the past few days but I do suffer with depression anyway so not surprising really.
Zumba, I do hope you get good news on 22nd. Yes, it’s a difficult time. I think I was lucky in that I had a good feeling about the outcome for some reason. I was right in suspecting my lesion was cancer, somehow, and so it was reassuring my gut feeling was right for the second time. Anyway, not too long to wait now. Will be thinking of you and checking the posts on Thursday. Good luck
Sorry to hear you had to have further surgery, Minx. It must be a worry having to do it all again. However, you’ve done it now and I do hope your wound(s) heal well. I would think a second incision on your first could be more sore than the original. Hopefully it will feel better soon. My wound isn’t sore but the skin around is sensitive but I’ve assumed this is to do with the nerves being ‘assaulted’ during surgery, one way or another. I’m hoping it will largely settle down in time.
Yes, Minx, must keep in touch during our Rads. I have yet to get an appt from the Oncologist but am expecting it to come through soon. It’s over a week now since my follow-up appt in clinc, when he was going to refer me. I suspect, once I’ve seen the Onc, things will move pretty quickly. I hope so as I hate all this ‘hanging around’. I just want to get on with it and get it out of the way.
Regarding ‘melt down’, I’m often in floods of tears - to do with depression, how I handle frustrations etc. It’s just how I am! I make sure I’ve got a packet of tissue’s with me and people who know me are used to it!!! I’m just hoping I don’t get worse, what with getting tired once the RT starts, being on Tamoxifen and just being a bit fed up with my ‘lot’ in life. (I have other stresses too)
Thanks for your advice, Araminta. It’s good to hear how you have ‘come out the other end’ as it were.
Where have you girls got supportive but cotton bras from. I’ve looked, and asked, in M&S but the cotton bra I found wasn’t very supportive. Minx, I might try a cotton crop top but I would need a bra over the top!!! That would surely make me very hot - seeing as I feel the heat anyway.
Pesteringpixie (love your name!), it’s good to hear your swelling is settling down. I’m finding the swelling isn’t so sore now but it still seems the same size. I’m wondering if your ‘barbed wire’ feeling is what I describe as feeling ‘chaffed’, particularly when my arm rubs against my body? That seems to be getting a bit better. I think I might try your ‘hankie’ tip though. Thanks for that.
It’s the pain that goes down my arm and now down as far as my thumb that I’m concerned about. It’s getting worse although some times during the day it doesn’t seem quite so bad. I’ve read that radiotherapy, if aimed at axilla, can make this worse. I don’t know if my RT will involve axilla (does anyone have any idea regarding this?) but I don’t relish the idea of this ‘cording’ getting worse. Maybe I’ll have another chat with one of the BCN’s next week.
Anyway, looking forward to hearing how you are all getting on, dates for radiotherapy etc. Pesteringpixie, I’m sure you will come to the right decision for you but it must be such a tough thing to decide. I do hope you are getting a lot of support and appropriate information so you can make such a choice. Good luck and will wait to hear what you decide.
Cheers
J
Using E45 cream sounds good to me.