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Hi Girls

Lesley, Keep the photo on, makes me smile!! and that takes a lot! Lol! Have a lovely holiday, ‘speak’ when you get back xxx

Suz, Good Luck with your peachy mother tomorrow, number 2 already! next one will be the last FEC? will you be on TAX then? Gosh hope all your friends aren’t like your hairdresser friend? my hairdresser ‘friend’ said when l told her l had bc “trust you to get bc, anything for attention”, we were on the phone at the time, good job, because the silence was deafening! i just said, l will call when my hair grows!! she has text a couple of times, but friends like that l can live without, another hairdresser l know said she would shave it or cut it for free! xxx

Carol, Really pleased you have your 2nd peachy mother tomorrow, be interested to know why they don’t give the injections, if you remember to ask, with all that will be going on!!
Pressing wrong buttons before you have peachy mother, no hope for you is there! xxx

Vickie, Good photo of Lesley eh! my grandsons bedroom was the same as your sons! although he was Thomas mad he is turning to Dr Who now!! He has so much Thomas stuff, probably end up on ebay!
Fancy calling Suze friend a hard faced mare!! slander or what?
Yes my wobble, wobbled off up the road, thankfully
Think someone said you are on your 2nd chemo tomorrow? if you are l have lost the plot, thought you were the day before me? so that would make you next week. probably got it wrong, and if so Good Luck xxx

Kris, yes my ‘E’ wonder if l went on a high and then crashed! perhaps that is why l wobbled! oh you too, having a go at suze’s friend! made me laugh! xxx

Isabelle, Cannot understand the long wait, he must be a really busy man! what a dreadful wait! Pleased your doctor contragulated himself! pat on the old back eh!! seem the general not to see the surgeon for 3 months. My friend saw her oncologist without the HER2 result, and he hit the roof!! because the results weren’t through and that was only two weeks! so is it a sit back and wait and see, or keep phoning!
Think your comment to Kris, is about my daddy boob! but you have had a stessfull day!xxx

Gill, how is the hair going! l got 6 hairs out when l put my hands through my hair today, family coming for dinner on sunday, not sure whether to shave before that or not, see how it is on Friday l think!
don’t want their dinner to be full of my hairs! xxx

Well had another busy day, cut the lawn, had another dig in the garden, need to cut some shrubs down, not sure the arm will stretch that far! might be a hubby job!
Gave both the dogs a haircut! with their shaver, well l thought if mine is going, so is theirs!
Did the ironing while l watched the football and the Tennis, anyone see it what a marathon!! wore me out!

Oh yes, and on the subject of fish, can l be the only one that dislikes fish!! you see my oh has a fishmonger shop, so l have a special bin for his clothes when he comes home from work!!! l just wish he had a shower at work! so to me fish just smells! well when dead!
Hugs to all and little side effects for those having peachy mother
Sandra xxx
PS Maria, You ok? hope you are busy with your kitchen fitters! xxx
Saffronseed, where are you? long time no hear xxx
Sorry if l have missed anyone xxx

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Hi Ladies,
not heard anything about bloods so hoping all is ok. I am ready as you can be for FEC no2, so will be there unless an unexpected volunteer offers to take my place!!! yeah like that would happen. Mind you I do realise that the chemicals need to be put into me to get the best results haha.
Going to stick with the cold cap cos the nurse rang today and said the all hair would have evacuated my head by 2 days before chemo no 2 if I hadn’t used it so the fact that I have some left means the cap is working. So with that information I have decided to invest a little more time to my bonse and give it another shot.Nothing to lose I think.
Thank you for all your good wishes and I send the same to everyone at whichever point we are all at, lots of us are being peachy mothered tomorrow.
Carol I hope your results mean that you are ok to continue treatment.
Sandra hope you are ok.Just noticed you are posting now as am I.
I am in search for a new hairdresser, I do have quite a while to be able to find one so there is no rush but I know one who will have a vacant slot in the future cos I am not going back there ever.
Heather hope your flu symptoms subside soon and you are back to your normal cheery lovely self very soon, in the meantime rest up and let everyone take good are of precious little you xx
Izzy I can’t believe how long it takes to get the results back, I also waited ages and was beginning to think they had dropped mine on the floor and lost it.
I have been getting really sharp pains where my scars are (there are 4 scars from the different ops)not sure why but been concerned about it, maybe just nerve endings reapiring or something but monday night was like wimbledon on my boobs as pains shot across from one nipple to the other…anyone else had similar feelings, should I be concerned ? Should I have opted for mx? I don’t know anymore but don’t want to miss an important sign again, also don’t want to mither about normal happenings, will ask bcnurse tomorrow…note to self to put on list of questions…
ok off to bed, shaky knees…don’t want to be sick or have to think through pea soup again but i do know it will pass…my typing is manic now so I’m going
Nite and bless to all
Hugs Suze xxx

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Hi everyone,
I’m back. I have been so tired theses past days I could not post much. 3rd fec was OK. I got a raging head ache on the 2nd stuff they gave me (5FU), but apparently it was not due to it. They gave me a paracetamol and a cold flannel for my head. Lovely. Did not feel great last night, but better today.
The granite top was installed today, but they cannot come now till Monday to link up the water to the sink and dish washer, and the wall tiles and painting is yet to be done. I think my chemo will be finished before my kitchen at this rate.
Hope you all are having a good day
Hugs
Maria

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Hi Ladies, well I am still here but still feeling like crap, I think it must be the Herceptin. Feeling like this is a small price to pay though if it keeps me alive. I just feel sorry for those of you who have to work, I am past working age now though. I had to pack up work 4 years ago with mobility and other problems. I fall a lot (and I am not drunk lol) and I drop things because my wrists give way, I am a wreck aren’t I lol Oh I feel a story coming on, it was when I first started to suffer with mobility problems. My Gp at the time was a stupid man, who just never listened. Well I went to him and told him I was struggling to walk, so he sent me to see a physiotherapist with my knees. Well she asked me loads of questions, and I told her a few years before I had a slipped disc. So she examined me and said I am sure the problem isn’t coming from your knees its your back. She said she wanted me to see an orthopaedic consultant with my back. Well to do that I had to go back to my GP with a letter from her for him to refer me. So this I did and he said he would refer me. Well it was weeks down the line and I was getting worse and heard nothing about this referral. So one day out of the blue I had a phone call from the NHS saying about my
referral, did I really want to go to Ilkeston hospital which is miles away from were we lived. So I said no Derby hospital please, so she said I will have to speak to your gp and get him to refer you again. So couple of weeks later the later comes for an orthopaedic consultant at Derby. Anyway off I went to my appointment and my walking was getting awful, and it was a real long corridor and I really struggled to get
there. Well when my turn came I said to hubby, you keep my handbag with you, because he was staying in the waiting room. Anyway I went in to see the consultant and he asked what my problems were and I proceed to tell him about my back and how I struggle to walk, but then he said what about your knees !!! So I looked at him and said I don’t know about my knees,then he told me he was an orthopaedic consultant for people with problems with there knees. Well I wished the ground would have opened up and swallowed me, my silly GP had not recorded that the physiotherapy had said the problem was my back, and he had looked at the last thing he had put in my file and it was he had sent me for physiotherapy on my knees. anyway the consultant was really nice and he did examine me and said I had a disc problem and that he would refer me for an MRI on my back, but I would not go back and see him for the result he would refer me to a consultant that dealt with back problems. Now here is were there story of my stupidity begins. I came out of there and I was fuming, I said to hubby come on quick, I feel such a fool. So I dragged myself back down that long corridor moaning about the stupid Gp. We had just got to the door to go out and I shouted " WERE Is MY HANDBAG " I looked at my arms hubbys arms nothing, and the thing is in my bag was all the bank cards, house keys, phone, you name it, it was in there. Well hubby started to panic, and he said you stay here I will run back down. So off he went, and the security guard came and asked me what was wrong. So I explained it all to him, in the mean time hubby had everyone nurses doctors the people in this cafe place searching for my bag, but it was not there. So hubby came back and said “no its gone” So the security guard came up and said go to the desk tell the receptionist what has happened and she will ring the police. Well hubby felt ill and had to go outside, I went to the desk and explained what had happened, she rang the place I had just been to check it hadn’t been handed in. So she said no its not there I will ring the police, then she stopped looked at me really strange and said "Whats that on your shoulder " and I dare not look because I thought it was some kind of creepy crawly, so I gently turned my head and looked, and it was my handbag. All the time everyone had been searching running about ect it had been on my shoulder and no one noticed lol I am just so glad she didn’t ring the police. So you see what chaos I can bring with just one hospital visit lol
Well peeps I hope your all having a good day, I hope those having the treatment are ok.
Izzy, my HEr-2 results took ages, but my oncon started my treatment before they came. I had a couple of lots of chemo before she had the results.
Sandra nice to see you back, hope your hair lasts till after the weekend.
Anyway better go because I have wrote a novel again lol
Take care,
Love Heather
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Why can´t I be in the same hospital at the same time as Heather ? Nothing interesting happens when I´m waiting .I have a lot of friends who walk a bit funny and wobble a bit , but that is definately to do with drink ! At least you could get away with it Heather if you ever do have a drink . Yes recycling bottle tops into artificial nipples …mmm , maybe I´ve found my niche in life .Do you have the herceptin at the same time a s chemo or on it´s own after ? My friend here , has just finished her chemo , then she starts rads , after that she has to have herceptin cos she was saying that she needs to get back working , but it´s imposssible at the moment .
I bet you´ll be so glad when everything is done in the kitchen Maria , bet you´ll miss you´re fitters though . It took my husband two years to finish fitting our kitchen here , the problem was , we had´nt bought all the stuff we needed , and when he eventually went back to the store to order a few more bits and pieces including a dishwasher , guess what ? The blasted kitchen shop had closed down !! I was not a happy bunny .
That was a real letdown for you isabelle , what a cock -up . It´s awful when you don´t know what is going to happen . I had my operation 1st december and it was six weeks after that I saw the radiologist , who explained that I would be having 25 rads , but said he was´nt sure whether i would have chemo or not , that would be up to the onc who I saw just over a week later , so it was seven week before I knew that i would´nt have to have chemo , all over christmas and new year , but in all honesty it did´nt rule my thoughts , I was so releived that by a fluke of fate I had had that mamogram and the cancer had showed up . Silly as it may sound I was over the moon that it had been caught at an early stage , cos I´ve large breasts ( F cup ) and had it been left until I felt it , well I dread to think . So I was quite euphoric at that time , perhaps like Sandra they put something in the anaesthetic to improve my mood and keep me floating . So just keep hanging in there Lesley .
Glad someone else has problems with buttons Carol . So often I do just that .
So what haircut have you given your little dogs ? I can just imagine you running amok with the shaver …Shame ! Call the RSPCA everyone , Sandras taken the shaver to her poor pups .
Understand where you are coming from as regards the "fishy " smell . It´s not exactly Chanel is it ? On the other hand it´s extremely nourishing , fat free etc … it could be worse , he might work at a sewage farm !
And on that note i will leave you ladies , and for those you were going chemo crazy today , I hope I´ve cheered you up ,
"Peachy Mother Sucks ! "
Kris

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Hello Ladies, hope all the chemo ladies are feeling alright tonight?

Maria, feeling tired? all that work going on in your home, enough to wear anyone out just looking at it! Soon be done now.
Hope the head is alright, hate headaches, really knock you for six don’t they, bet you really appreciated the cold flannel! xxx

Heather, you are a one! fancy no one noticing you had your handbag! you probably were making such a fuss, no one had the chance! Hope you are feeling better today xxx

Kris, Yes healthy is all you can say about it xxx

‘Crying time again’ (Ray Charles - anyone remember him?) for me it was today! had a bath, washed my hair, and loads came out, had to go in the garden to brush it! never looked any different when l blow dried it, but l knew this was it! So l phoned the wig lady and said l wanted a bit more off my wig, and also my hair cut, she said she couldn’t do anything until tomorrow, so l arranged for 10am tomorrow, then at 1pm she phoned to say if l can get there she will do it. so l jumped in the car, drove out of the drive, and luckily remembered l had left my wig behind!!

She gave my wig another trim! then started on mine, l was so in control, chatting all the way through, she gave me a 2" all over, l put the wig on and then went shopping to Marks and Mothercare, very carefully watching people, to see who did a double take on my hair, and no one seemed to notice, am l paranoid or what.

Anyway arrived home, dogs treated me as normal, sort of a ‘give me a biscuit look’ so that was ok, went to see Toby the tortoise, he didn’t hide in his shell, so he was ok about my hair…Then went to the bathroom looked in the mirror, and burst out crying, for goodness sake, l was the only one upset about it! Took my wig off and ran my fingers through my very short hair, pleased l had it cut short. Now l will have to wear the wig, and when the rest falls, hopefully l will be ok by then! who ever knows! All our problems and l am worried about my ‘hair’ if only that was our only worry!

Still got my wig on, feels nice and comfortable, not sure what it will be like on a hot day!

Hugs
Sandra xxx

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Heather, you do get up to some mischief, you could use the handbag episode for comedy sketch. Have you ever tried chiropractic. unfortunatly it is rarely NHS funded but has worked for me and myOH who had a discectomy in 1998.
Sorry you are feeling C**p. I asked my Onc today how long would be on Herceptin the reply was 1 year, don’t fancy feeling that way for that long but if it works-fine

Carol x

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Hi Sandra,
Just read your message , so sorry about your hair , it’s s–t isn’t it! I was speaking to a friend of mine down in the village the other day and she went through all of this five years ago. She said that the most upsetting thing was one day she got in the shower and her hair started to come out in clumps. The lady in question is now great and just finished the last of her five year course of tablets, she is an inspiration on my bad days.
Mind you if your dogs wern’t concerned that just means that they love you unconditionally, after all you feed them and love them that’s all they are bothered about, even if their not keen of being scalped to match you!!
I bet you look very good with your new hairstyle, are you going to let us see your new look?
Thinking of you

Isabelle xxx

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one last word before I go off to Wales,Porthmadog by the way.
Isn’t it funny how you feel really good all day and then suddenly you feel crap for no reason. Happened earlier whilst watching Grey’s Anatomy that’s why I’m online so late. What will I do next week with no computer!
Suze how dare that hairdresser!!!
Heather I understand a friend of mine does things like that and she isn’t on medication or anything just always been that way she once made us coffee with gravy granules!
Maria your kitchen sound so lovely think we will want to see photos when finished.
Sandra sorry to hear about the hair but I think you definately did the right thing.
Someone asked if anyone was having e-mcf chemo that’s what mine will be I think is this different than some of you I still learning all the jargon?
Izzy I haven’t had her2 or hormone receptive results yet consultant said they should be through by the time I see oncol on 16th July.
Anyway ladies I am packed and ready to go looking forward to it but do you know between us I feel a little bit scared at the thought of being away from home for a week crazy isn’t it.
Only thing I hate doing is taking Tutti to the cattery but it has to be done and I know that she is well looked after there.
All take care and keep smiling “speak” when I get home xx

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Hi Ladies,
Just a quick post,
Isabelle, yes once the red eyes have settled down, and l have found a good photo to put behind my head! l will put one up! xxx
and talking of good photos…
Lesley, Hope you enjoy your holiday, and the weather stays nice for you.
Perhaps your friend is a twin of Heather’s?
Not sure who asked about e-mcf chemo, if anyone comes on here about it before you get back from holiday, l will make a note to tell you, a whole weeks worth of posts to read, you may miss one!
Mmmm can understand that feeling of being away from home, we do like to feel a bit of security, bit like a safety blanket. But once there you will enjoy!
Poor Tutti, hope she enjoys her holiday too.
Lots of Hugs
Sandra xxx

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Hi there,
Quick note to say Lesley…have a great time…it will pass quickly and hopefully you will forget all the other stuff and get on with enjoying yourself ( I did the other week in Southampton and felt much better for it) Enjoy girl!!!

Sandra, hope you’re not wobbling too much today…if it’s any consolation my mohecan look is coming on nicely/…yep I hate it but what the heck can i DO? IF I shave it the dark bits are still in the shape of a mohecan so I am declaring it the new look of Summer 2010…one never to be repeated as well !!

Maria, hope your headache is better and you are feeling more yourself…cyber hugs to you xxx

Feel ok at the moment today just had ondansetrol , now I need to have eats and steroids…by lunch I will be on roof fixing loose slate ahhahahaha…what time is the deadline for 2nd steroids as I don’t fancy being hyper in the night. Last time I was only given two for each morning for three days, this time I have to have them twice a day for 2 days!!

Hugs Suze xx

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Hi Suze
Don’t forget to take 2nd steroid of the day before 2 pm or you may not sleep. I’ve just spent 2 hours moving the grass and now I am paying my bills that I do every month. Steroids are great (lol)
Thanks, my head is better, and I’m OK.
Hope everyone is also OK, I think Sandra is having her 2nd peachy mother today
Hugs to all
Maria

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Hi Maria,
Thanks for the info I knew it was around the afternoon…not sure whether to have the 4 a day regime or do as last time and just have the 2 and make em last longer.
so many pills so many decisions lol
Don’t wear yourself out moving grass…my guinea pigs are moving mine as I sit here watching them lol
I think Sandra is next week?? Maybe wrong.
Hugs Suze xx

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Hi ladies finally think I may have a good enough connection to post Have been able to read the thread but not post, if I miss anyone out apologies. Maria sounds like the kitchen is coming on a traet, hope it’s not too much longer. Sandra sorry to hear about your blip, now the hair cut too,Let ussee apic of the new wig obviously suits you as positive comments even from dogs and Toby. this blinking BC doesn’t half through some c**p our way doesn’t it?Can’t remember whose 'friend’charged them for the haircut but thought that was disgusting. Hopeing for few S/E for those having /had a chemo this week.Heather lol aabout your ‘lost’ handbag. OMG lesley I have seen your replaced picc in the original one I saw the background was so dark I couldn’t make out what everyone was commenting on. ( Obviously been living on my own too long lol)Finally got op yesterday for maargins, got postponed for 2 weeks as day after I saw surgeo( 2 weeks after WLE and ANC) got skin inf in axillaHad to have 12days of a-b.Saw him 3 times to see how it was settling and got put on list yesterday. Then on Weds a sebaceuos cyst on my abdominal wall which I have had for years enlarged and became very red but went in anyway and didn’t say anything as I could not face being sent home. How stupid is that. Was later told surgeon could have removed it during op. So have more a-b and today its like an abscess about to burst.Had an awful blip on my original surgery day that lasted for about 4 days weeping, not able to eat or sleep although I had been OK with postponement and really understood why it had to be. I hadn’t realised such a large bit would be taken this time but no drain and excision through original one so no uncomfortable this time. But now the testing time is starting have to wait 2 1/2 weeks for results, what torture.Hope everyone is able to enjoy the weather and hope you have a good tme in porth madog (sp)Lesley. Sandra are your g-c a chicken pox free zone now?I do hope so and that they have fun finding their pebbles.Not sure who posted about the teal interior decor but sounds fab. Hugs Jackie

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Hi Everyone, I am having a bit of a weepy day today. think part of it is being caused by the herceptin and the other reason is it would have been my mums birthday on Sunday, and I miss her so much. If she had been alive through my cancer she would have chivvied me along saying, come on our Heather your putting to much weight on, make sure you do your hair and your make up it will make you feel better. She always use to make her face up, not heavily, just some foundation and blusher, and her beloved lipstick lol and she never went to bed wearing her make up, what ever time of night it was the ponds cream would come out to take off her make up before she went to bed. The week before she died she was in a coma, and on the Thursday she woke up, me and my daughter were there and we had her favourite Elton John on cd. She saw herself in the mirror and pointed to her hair, by this time she couldn’t speak at all, so I said tomorrow put your make up on and do your hair you will feel better. We went to see her the next day and she was asleep, but her face and hair were done. The thing is she never woke up again, she died on Sunday, which was mothers day.I think we always need our mum, I hope my children will always need me.
Right I must stop being sad and get back to normal silly me lol
Kris, I started my Herceptin after I had finished chemo, I have not been to bad with it, but the longer it goes on the more side effects I have. I did look on the Herceptin site and it said it would take a few months after you finish taking it to get out of you system.
Carol, I will have been on Herceptin 12 months in October. The first one is the worse one because you have to stay at the hospital about 6 hours to make sure you don’t have a
reaction. Before they started mine I had to have a mugga scan of my heart, because one of the side effects is it can damage your heart. And I have to have these mugga scans every 3 months, I hate them. It doesn’t hurt, but they inject this nuclear stuff into you, then you wait 20 mins, then you have to lie on this table and they put this plate over your chest, and you cant move for 20 mins. It kills me lol I count in my head, think of nursery rhymes, anything to make the time go. I said to the nurse last time, couldn’t you have a nice picture on the ceiling so you can imagine yourself in the picture lol Not to worry though, I have my next mugga on Thursday, think of me lying there bored out of my head lol
Lesley, I love Porthmadog, use to go there a lot when my children were small, I have a story about there, but I wont bore you all with another long post lol I had to smile about your friend, the thing is I don’t think I stood a chance of stupid things happening to me. I was born in May and my mum and dad lived with my Grandma and Granddad in a 2 up 2 down.So they decided to have me christened in the summer so they could have the party outside. It was a lovely day and I think there was quite a lot of family and friends there and this lady asked to hold me. Apparently she walked down the garden path which was a bit uneven and tripped and fell holding me and went straight through my granddads green house lol I was ok apparently, just covered in glass, but she had to go to the hospital because she had cut her hands quite badly. So you see my misdemeanour’s started at an early age, hey I have just thought do you think I should get in touch with these people who are on the telly saying "have you had a trip or fall that wasn’t your fault " I could be worth loads of money
lol
Sandra, I wasn’t making a fuss honest, I was just standing there chatting to anyone that came to me and asked what was wrong lol oh I do know how your feeling about losing your hair, it is so upsetting I think. But then I read your post further on which said why are we worrying about our hair when there are more serious things to bother us. I don’t know why we do that, I think some times we forget, and then it hits us and we have a wobble.
Suze, watch what your doing with those steroids, you will be swinging from the roof tops later lol
Maria, take it easy, and don’t get doing to much and make yourself ill. I know what its like when we feel good we just go mad and then pay for it for the next few days.
Libby, hope your feeling ok now, watch that cyst, if it comes infected get it looked at. I really hope the time goes quickly for you, waiting for test results is awful. How come they can get some results the next day, but we have to wait weeks.
Izzy, hows the farmer, have you been on the quad bike ? I really hope the time goes quickly for you. I dont know why they couldn’t start your treatment though with out you HER-2 results. Mine took a few weeks but they started my other treatment.
Well ladies hope you all have a good weekend, we should be going to a Bar-b-que at hubbys parents, its a bit of a party for his dads birthday, but how I feel at the minute I don’t think we shall be going. They live just outside Banbury, so we have to go and stay, and at the moment I just don’t feel that well, see what tomorrow brings I might be feeling better.
Take Care,
Love Heather
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Hi Ladies,
Well l had to match Lesley!
so with a big Thank you for Linda (lindiloo), for the photo of 12 French Oncologist! Anyone that would like a photo of the oncs, i will email it! (not sure how Linda knows they are French!) Lol!
And now a challenge to you all, who can you have behind your photo!!

Oh l need a coffee, l see Heather has posted…i’ll be back
Sandra xxx

PS. And not fogetting my new ‘hair’

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Sandra, I love the hair, I hope it’s comfortable cos you look 40 in it. As for the French oncs, wow, I wish I was being treated in France, I wouldn’t need any peachy mother, I can tell you.
Well everyone you’re right, steroids have wore off and I am whacked, with a boated feeling in my stomach, a nasty taste in my mouth and feeling generally bad, Long hot bath and bed soon for me.
Heather, your tribute to you Mum is lovely. I am very lucky to still have both my parents. But I see you have been accident prone form a very tender age, so I’m sure you will have even more stories for us.
Jackie, Sorry to hear about all your complications. Goodness life is so unfair sometimes. Hope you are not too uncomfortable. The waiting game is the worst.
Suze, Thanks for the cyber hugs, glad you had a good time in Southampton. So it’s Mohican this year. Well, with fish and naked men and women being in fashion here, I will have to see what I can do. Naked fish with a Mohican, I suppose.
Hi Isabelle, Carol, Kris, Vickie, Gill and Leslie. I hope I have not forgotten anyone.
Hugs to everyone anyway
Maria

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Hi Ladies,
Suze, hope you are feeling ‘ok’ can just imagine your poor little guinea pigs working their way through your lawn, my toby the tortoise munches his way through my weeds, but you wouldn’t know it! Still got lots of weeds!
You are right, my peachy mother is next Friday! Blood tests Thursday, hope they are ok xxx

Maria, have you never thought of getting a goat, perfect for lawns on a slope!
Pleased your head is ok. What is the weather like with you, we are having some lovely weather, considering it is Wimbledon fortnight!! Do you watch tennis or football? xxx

Jackie, where do you live that you have so many interruptions? I think l saw an airport mentioned somewhere, that must be an absolute pain, keep getting interruptions!
Hope the margin op went well! Oh what a shame you never mentioned the cyst, can understand not wanting to say anything, just want the op over and done with!
And you could have had two for the price of one, we never know do we!
That wait for results, we will never get used to it will we? Fingers and everything crossed for good results.
My grandsons are clear of chicken pox now, thank goodness!
Vickie is the ‘Teal’ Lady such a lovely happy colour xxx

Heather,
Oh l am sure your weepy day is down to your herceptin, you have had a rotten few days, so it is bound to come out sooner or later! Better out than in!! yes birthdays, anniversaries, all bring so many memories! I think your Mum is with you, I don’t think our parents ever leave us, because we always know what they would say and do, so that is always with us.
I am sure our children will always need us, but at the same time it is good to know they can cope without us, would hate to think they would fall apart if anything happened to us! But l know what you mean!

Goodness me, cant imagine you lying on a table while you are having your mugga scan, and not having anything to think about! You have plenty of stories, so next time tell yourself a story!! Good Luck with your scan on Thursday

You remind me of my youngest, we always used to say, if it is going to happen, it will happen to Robert! He went to hospital with so many ‘accidents’ when he was little, the doctor actually remarked that he was rather accident prone! And he still is! Last year he went on a stag do, a ‘friend’ ran up behind him and jumped on his back, 24 hours in hospital, broken jaw bone, dental work that cost him £5000, broken fingers, punctured eardrum! Still having treatment for the jaw one year later!
Heather of course you wasn’t making a fuss, as if!!! xxx

Still waiting Isabelle?? Xxx

Maria, Ah just saw your post before l pressed ‘submit’ overdone it by the sounds of it, hope you feel better tomorrow, a bath sounds lovely, you need to pamper yourself after all that hard work.
The wig is very comfortable, wore it for about 10 hours yesterday, and 12 today, and still got it on, in fact l keep touching it to see if it is still there!! Sleep well,
Not seen you on the chit’ chat’ puzzles yet!! Nice and easy not too much brain needed!

Fingers crossed, grandchildren are infectious free, we are having a belated fathers day dinner on Sunday, dads will be watching football, children will be in the paddling pool, and mums will be in the kitchen! Just as it should be!!!

Oh and l must remember while wearing my Wig, l must NOT open the oven door! i know I am going to forget that at some stage!!!

Extra hugs to all those that need them
Sandra xxx

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Hi Sandra,
Love your new Pic, and a big thank you for giveing me such a good laugh lol, Just knew you would sneak it in somehow (naughty woman) good on ya gal. (nearly fell of my chair laughing!!)
The picture and website article was sent to me back in 2008 from a very good friend who was DX with BC at the same time as me, we met on the BCC forums and we supported each other through all our treatments ,she doesnt use the BCC forums anymore, but we still chat by email. Ive tried looking for the article but cant find it now , but yes, these guys were french oncoligists raising money for Breast Cancer, so all for a very good cause.
Been realy busy last couple of days as we are moving house in the next few weeks so lots of packing up to do, (dont you just love moving house ,NOT) so if you dont see me much on the forums im just getting stuck into packing ,but il be back to see how you all are when i can ,hopeing to work it out so i wont be offline for more than a day or two,(cant live without my PC)
Love your new wig sandra, it realy suits you , i know its one of the worst SEs loosing your hair, i remember me and my hairdresser cried buckets when i lost mine, but once its gone its amazing how you soon get used to it, and it does sorta have a plus side No Bad Hair Days anymore, you can wash it and leave it and it will always keep its style , also plently of extra time to do other nice stuff instead of blow drying and straighting .
Hope the pic gave all the ladies a well deserved smile,
Take care all
Love Linda x

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Sandra,

your new photo is great. Seem to recall you revealing your age a while ago and not believing it at all. You look so good.

K x