Hi everyone, Well you all seem to be doing ok. Sorry I have been missing, I forgot to say I am doing a course with the Open University, and I had got my final assignment to write. It was stuck in my head it had got to be finished by this Friday lunchtime. It is 2000 word an end of course assessment essay,you cant have an extension, and you need to get 40% to pass. So I have been working on it all week when I felt ok, I was up late last night, and early this morning trying to get it finished, it was really stressing me out. Well At 11 30 today it was all done, so I got hubby to read it to see if he thought it was ok. Yes that seems ok he said, then he looked at me and asked what is the date ? well I know next Wednesday is the 26th because it is my birthday. So I said don’t bother about that just let me get this assignment sent out of the way. Then he started laughing, it hasn’t got to be there till the 28th of May, I could have screamed lol I think I may have chemo brain!! but on second thoughts I have always been like this. I did the same thing with one of my earlier assignments,but that time I rang my Tutor for an extension and he Said “yes of course you can have an extension Heather, but your assignments not due for another 2 weeks” lol there is no hope for me is there.
Well all of you seem to be doing ok. Sandra you seem to be coping really well, I am so happy for you.
Maria hope your visit to the UK goes ok, the weather is great at the moment so I hope it stays that way. Loads of hugs from Mum and Dad that will be fantastic, my mum was the first person I wanted when they told me I had BC, unfortunately she died 6 years ago, she had Motor neurone Disease, that was an awful illness to see, and my Dad died 8 years ago with cancer. I still really miss them even now, but I suppose I always will. You enjoy your stay over here Maria, hope they like your orange hair lol
Lee hows that party catering coming a long, it sounds like you are going to be really busy. My Job was catering before I had to pack up work, I loved it though. I use to make wedding cakes etc, now if any of the family want a special cake hubby does them, he is really good.
Suze you must love you garden, I love to see a nice garden, I have never been much good at it though. My daughter loves it, she always had a beautiful back garden, now she as a crazy Labrador dog and he causes chaos in the garden.
Chris hope your visits to the gym are going ok, I was never any good at that sort of thing. I remember was I was about 13 and we were having a gym lesson at school. Well I have never been your slim athletic type lol so we were having to join in this race and the last part of it was to climb the wall bars and come back down. Anyway I was always last and I was near the top of the wall bars and I thought there was only me left to finish. So the teacher shouted JUMP GIRL JUMP, so I launched myself off the top bar, well there was such a bang, I thought I had gone through the gym floor lol anyway I was taken hobbling to first aid with the bruising starting to show already and I found out there was another girl on the wall bars just a couple of steps up and the teacher had been shouting at her lol so has you can see I have always done stupid things.
Vickie, hope you are feeling ok today 
Gill I never bothered with the cold cap, I was a bit scared of having a cold head, my brain is not to good at the best of times, thought better not freeze it lol but you go with what suits you best. If you try it and don’t like it doesn’t mean you cant change your mind. I was scared of losing my hair, losing my breast was under my clothing I could disguise it but not the same with your hair. But I coped better than I thought, it was about this time last year I was going through the losing hair stage. But now I have it back and it is oh so very curly I love it. It doesn’t take no doing just wash and go.
Izzy hope your keeping ok, have you got your dish washer fixed yet ? if not you could borrow hubby, he is good at pot washing.
Well Ladies better get going, fingers really aching at the minute, think it is all that typing.
All of you take care,
Love Heather
XXXXX
Hi all you travellers,
isn’t this weather beautiful…a real blessing to be out in the garden…bluebells still hanging on though the magnolis are definitely over, rhododendrons… some finishing and some coming out and the azalea banks are almost at their zenith…magnificent. Our pocket handkerchief treeis out in full bloom now, quite dramatic…I love this time of year. And Suze the plant was hellebore! Can’t believe neither of us could come up with it.
We moved the chickens to a new spot in the garden yesterday and they are loving being under the fruit trees…somehow they seem even more contented where they are now and while they aren’t so visible from the kitchen, I can still see the one coop that they’re all in from the sink! I love watching them, all fifteen chickens, including two cockerels, have decided to set up home together so now I have several chicken coops to sell…I’m really on a mission to simplify my life. No more hatching of eggs so I snatch them away from 3 very broody hens we have much to their disgust!
Heather, so glad you completed your final assignment well in advance of the deadline even if it was super stressful…now you can relax! Catering thoughts for the two parties are progressing…I think I’ve decided on a menu for the sit down for 34 friends of my eldest who’s 21. She’s just “mentioned” that she told them all they can stay over! I’ve always always encouraged my children to have lots of friends here for two reasons a)socialising is very important and b)my rules! but now its coming home to roost…still it’ll be fun. My 17 year old is even going to try and get away from school that night to be a wine waiter (and I’ve already bought copious amounts of alcohol while Sainsbury’s had a good deal on…let’s hope the family celebrations don’t demolish the lot as they are the Sunday before!)my 19 year old should be around to help (she is still in Thailand though on Phi Phi island and seems oblivious to the unrest and to my worries…oh to be 19! She is safe though)
Unusually it looks as if all my close family from the North East are going to try and be here for the celebrations which is fantastic. Unfortunately not my Mum who is 91 this year and has been very poorly recently, I had to race up there a couple of weeks ago as it didn’t look as if she was going to make it through the next day, she’s down to 6 stone! However she has rallied remarkably and though now in a home is just doing so well. Going to see her was complicated by the fact that I had decided not to tell her about my cancer as I felt that for her generation it is a very scary thing (it is for us too but I hope you understand my concern to protect her) her mother died of BC too so as I live so far away I felt I could protect her from the knowledge but of course my extremely short hair was going to be an issue and my mother is very perceptive. She did notice it even in her poor state but we managed to suggest that it was my new “trendy” cut!! Think I got away with it!
Maria, how lovely to be returning to visit your parents at such a lovely time of year. Fingers crossed the weather holds. I have had some lovely skiing holidays in Switzerland, Zermatt being my favourite place ever, I must get my girlfriends to do weekend there next season as I’m sure I’ll be up to it.
Sandra, you really are coming on a treat aren’t you? Completely get the wanting to get back to some sort of normality, I think it all helps and you’re so right that we never know what others are dealing with…I always try to cut people a bit of slack like you. I’m sure that to them you looked absolutely normal and they would have probably applauded you had they known you were there shopping after just going through what you have. xx
I do hope everyone else is feeling okay today.
Apologies if I’ve missed any "a"s must be a pringle trapped there!
love
Lee x
Oh dear…have I killed off our discussions by such a boring post. So sorry if I have.
Thinking of all of you undergoing treatment and hope today is a good day.
Lee x
Hi Ladies,
No Lee you have not killed off the discussions, yesterday was one of those hiccup days for me! you get a good day or two and then back to the ‘normality’ of having this bc and nodes!
I have come to the conclusion that my first thoughts in the morning are how my day goes! if that makes sense, and yesterday my first thoughts were not good, hence the day…
Woke the same today, so decided to take hold of myself (impossible) but will try.
So with OH birthday this Monday, decided to have a family get together on sunday, a nice meal, with grandchildren running around with not a care in the world, what could be better!
Love the idea of chickens, always wanted some, we had them when l was a child, as did all my Mums family (must be a Yorkshire thing!) l said to my 95year old Uncle, what do l do they get old? “wring their necks and you have Sunday lunch” well that put me straight off, no way could l wring their necks, let alone eat them!!
How long do they live for Lee?
Hi Vickie,
Hope you are keeping well, walking the dogs yesterday, l bumped into someone l hardly know, and she said you look lovely and sunny today (had bright colours on!) l thought if only!! Oh l replied the sun always makes you feel good!! well it does!
Hi Chris
Wish l was brave enough to have the cold cap, really hate the thought of losing my hair, but my onc doesn’t like it, and with so many nodes involved feel as though l must go along with what he advises, so a wig it will be, in the hope l can find one that is comfortable, seems very unlikely, not ‘met’ anyone yet who finds them comfortable, but then again when you think what they are l don’t suppose they would be comfortable, l don’t even like wearing hats, hey-ho!
Hi Suze
Wow your OH knows how to treat a lady (lawnmower) Lol, but very sensible, and we must be sensible. But he did go on to treat you to 2 nights in Southampton, so that certainly made up for it. When do you go?
Hope your onc was kind to you! when do you start the dreaded, but welcome chemo?
Hi Heather
Well done you on the course, have been thinking about doing something to keep my mind off myself, but not found a course that ‘jumps’ out and says ‘yes, do me!’ and will be easy enough for my brain to cope with at the moment.
Me thinks you need a secretary, to help with all your dates!!
Gosh 8.30am already, can’t beleive l have been sitting here for an hour doing nothing, how the times have changed! well my surgeon said l need to soak my mx scar in salt water every day for 15mins. never was one for soaking in the bath, love the bubbles but salt water! Yuk, but needs must. Do not want any infections or problems to stop the dreaded chemo!
Just remembered had a letter yesterday, inviting me to ‘attend a prosthetic fitting’ in July! I have had some invites in my life but…needs must, keep having to check my softie, make sure it hasn’t moved too much.
Another lovely sunny day, gone are the days where l just put a top on, now l have to make sure the softie looks ‘ok’ under it! have been wearing a cardigan over tops, but today it is really warm so l will be brave and keep my left eye on my right boob, people will probably just think l have a ‘lazy’ eye and not notice me looking at the boobless side.
Well the bath will be overflowing with salt, so had better get in there, with a nice cup of organic green tea, oh the life!
Hope everyone is Well and that you all have a lovely day
Hugs
Sandra xxx
SORRY ALL A NERVOUS FINGER!!
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hi everyone
had my second chemo yesterady and feel like rubish, but have been reading and thanks everyone for their long posts as interests me and keeps me occupied reading them!
Vickie
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Hi ladies,
What loverly weather we are having at last. If we can’t all be back at work at least we can sit out in the garden if were feeling ok. Sorry to here that you are feeling so unwell with your chemo at present Vicky, hope you feel better soon.
Its great to hear that your feeling so well Sandra couldn’t help but laugh about your 'lazy eye’you don’t want that softie to go astray ehh!
I’ve been back to my practice nurse today and got the rest of my dressings off, I managed to take most of them off at home but thought I had better do as I had been told and let her finish the job off and check that I was healing properly, all seems ok up to now, thank goodness. I’m just waiting for next week for my results, the wait seems endless, but I can’t grumble as everyone is being so kind.
I went out for afternoon tea with my friend from work today, can’t get used to not being there yet, but I was able to catch up on all the gossip!
Hope everyone has had a good day if possible ,
Best Wishes
Isabelle xxx
Hi Ladies, well a lovely sunny day, I got really hot and sweaty and my hair went into Shirley temple mode lol loads of nice little ringlets. When I was a small child my mum was a hairdresser and she wanted her daughter (me) to have blonde hair and loads of curls, so all my infant photos that were taken at home, I had curlers and pins in my hair lol My mum would love my hair now. Having curlers in my hair wasn’t has bad has when she made me a fancy dress costume, she wrote to players a cigarette company and they sent her loads of packets and that’s what she made my dress out of, I was a players girl lol she would be strung up if she did that now ( and I still have the photo)lol
Lee your posts aren’t long I love reading them, look at some of the stuff I write. Oh I also would love chickens, I think there lovely, my grandma’s next door neighbour had loads. They use to let me feed them, and look after the little chicks they had in the house. I just love any bird though, I have to feed them in the garden, in the winter I make them cakes with lard and seeds and things, I get in such a mess. Lee a house full of people how fantastic, when my daughter was still at home I always had a house full. They all came for food, one young lad who wasn’t looked after very well at home always came when it was dinner time so I always fed him. This particular day I had just got paid, and I was a single parent so didn’t get much money, so treat us I had bought steak. Well there was me my daughter and her boyfriend and I was just putting the steak under the grill and I saw him walking up the road. So I took it out of the grill and cut it up so it would serve 4. I was just putting it under the grill and the dog whipped a piece off the grill pan and I just caught it before he swallowed it. I pulled it out of his mouth and cooked it, I didn’t tell them and there all still alive lol (awful aren’t I)
Sandra I do need a PA don’t think I could afford one though. What a lovely Sunday you will have, my grandchildren come I don’t care what mess they make. I wasn’t like that with my kids though I was always telling them not to make mess. My daughter has just rung to see if we want to go to a bar-b-que at her house tomorrow night, she said it can be my birthday barby lol
Vickie hope you feel better this weekend, I can understand how you feeling it is hard. I was going through chemo last summer and it made me so miserable, but we have to do it don’t we. Soon be over then you will feel like moving on
Izzy it is awful waiting, that’s all we seem to do though isn’t it. I will have everything crossed for you.
Well hope all you other ladies are ok and enjoying the sun, going to have a nice cool sit outside now.
Take care everyone
Love Heather
xxx
Hi there sunshine girls!!
Heather, your lovely long posts are so fascinating and entertaining, from Shirley Temple hair to OU assignments!!! I finished my OU course last Oct (thank goodness) so I am now salsasuzi BSc hons lol!!! Thing is my career dreams are now on hold but at least I have the certificate for whenever!!
Hope, awww your chickens, eggs and you naturistic posts…you conjure up all lovely visions of flowers…I can almost smell them. While I have been at home I planted some seeds and have peas and radiishes, beetroot, cucumber toms and courgettes developing in the garden!!! Nice to watch them grow…there’s a sign that I’m not doing so much !!!
Sandra, hope you wake with good sunny smiley thoughts tomorrow then your day will be full of those things instead of the nasty stuff that is always shadowing us…push those shadows away and tell em they’re not welcome :-)) Keep an eye on that softie (one of my ladies at my adult tap class (years ago) was mid tap dance when hers flew out onto the floor (none of us even knew she had had bc till then), she scooped it up and put it back where it should be then carried on dancing…she is a fab lady and is now well into her 70’s and a definite inspiration to me throug all this…but Sandra…please be careful if you go tap dancing!!! ;-))
I start the dreaded chemo on 3rd June with 6 FEC then rads to be done one side at a a time so that will take us to end of this year b4 treatments are done yuk yuk yukky yuk. I have my wig prescription so it will be off to that appointment for me, had hair cut today so at least its a lot shorter now…gonna try the cold cap I think but getting prepared. Tired after working 4 mornings this week but it’s been good to get back and see the kids I work with…all my colleagues are fab and so supportive it’s untrue, mind you we work with kids with terminal illnesses so naturally they are supportive natured, I work with the kids who are excluded for behavioural issues and even they have been lovely when they saw me…near miss when a new one launched a chair in my direction…lickiny he was a bad shot…need to keep my wits about me tho!!!
Well hope everyone has a fab weekend and much love to all on our adventure
Hugs to all Suze xxxxxx
Hi ladies,
yes it certainly is another beautiful day. Long may it last, I will definitely have to set off on a dog walk soon before it gets too hot.
I love reading all the posts, Heather you do make me smile with your stories…glad you were no more than bruised after the"jump" episode!
Suze, well done on completing an OU course, I have great admiration for anyone focussed enough to do these courses at home (that’s you too Heather) but I guess there is, perhaps, more motivation if you didn’t do the university thing straight from school. I did that then went on to professional training instead of doing my PhD and always regretted not hving done the further research. Could never really get myself motivated to do it later even though I thought about it and then when I had more time to do it realised I wouldn’t remember enough from my original degree to make it feasible (I did Maths!) so maybe my studying days are over though I am still threatening to learn bridge with a friend!
I’ve planted mainly potatoes in the vegetable patch this year as I’m hoping to move but didn’t want to tempt the fetes by leaving everything bare! So greenhouse is full of its usual tomatoes and have planted lots of spinach for the chickens! Asparagus is now growing well with the warmer weather …delicious!
Sandra, I hope you wake up today feeling positive! I had an immediate reconstruction which is a completely different set of issues and I always had a lump there of some sort even if it was much smaller (an expander was fitted) it still is smaller actually! Aren’t there bras that have secure pockets that hold the prosthesis in place? I hope so as I am thinking that this would be the route for me to take instead of having yet another operation to balance the boobs. I also use a very, very padded bra which fits my left breast and just skims over the smaller one. I just don’t look at them and hope that noone else does! I guess not having a partner means I’m not forced to share my revised body secrets with anyone else…probably helps a bit.
Having said that I was recently in a bikini (well, I was never going to see these people again so what the heck I thought!) and this was the first holiday since diagnosis and was still trying to tie the bikini straps around my back to not get strap marks (why did I even bother?) but of course I have no real feeling there and it’s quite solid so the bikini triangle just unpeeled without my noticing ! My eldest daughter could see this from the pool and was gesturing to me frantically to let me know I was exposing myself…I went to the beach after that!
Gill, that’s the spirit, making the most of this time before you retreat a little for a while. x
Vickie, I hope you’re feeling bit better today, two down though! Plus you may find each one gets easier, my body did seem to start to accept them, and on the good weeks in between I took as a huge bonus and even decorated (probably not the best idea soon after an mx and recon but hey, painting the ceiling was good stretching!!). Just wanting to say that you will have better days.
Isabelle, glad the healing is going well, the waiting is awful I know. I also did chemo through the summer and to be honest there were times when I felt forgotten as everyone seemed to be away on holiday for weeks and I often felt alone except for my poor teenagers who did what they could but it was hard for them at times. We’re here to offer any support we can, however you feel, as there are several of us who have been there and understand the variety of emotions experienced.
Oh look at the time…still in my dressing gown so off I must go!
Have the best possible weekend.
love and hugs
Lee xx
Hi Ladies
Another glorious day! With the family coming tomorrow, l had better get the paddling pool out for the children and any adults that want to dip their toes!
Yesterday turned into an absolute pain, in more than one way. I had been feeling a little uncomfortable early in the day when l went to the toilet (wee-wee)! Could have said urine, but wee wee is so much nicer!! By 4pm l was running to the toilet every 10 minutes, oh and the pain, if any of you ladies have had cystitis you will know what l mean! the pain went right through my body, I have had it a couple of times before, so l knew what it was. So l phoned the surgery and asked for a prescription for antibiotics, didn’t fancy a weekend of pain!! Such a coward these days!
She got the doctor to call me, and she agreed to leave a prescription but said l had to do a sample and leave it at the surgery. Well would you believe, there was not a drop wanted to leave my body, after going all afternoon!
Wouldn’t give the prescription until l left a sample, so l came home drank so much water, l thought l was going to drown, but it still took 50 minutes before l could fill that little container. I thought the surgery would be closed by the time l could get my sample there, but thankfully all was well and l now have my antibiotics.
Had a letter to have my prosthetic fitting! 5th July, says to bring a tight fitting top, and at least one bra, so that sounds easy!
Also had a letter from the oncologist, to say they had made me an appointment for the 1st June, feel quite afraid of that appointment!! You know, my usual rant about my lymph nodes!
Really pleased with my mx scar, it seems to be healing nicely, lets hope it continues! All those salt baths are doing there job!
Seem as though l am on a bit of a washing day today! Washing machine has been kept busy, all lovely and dry, waiting for the iron!
The tortoise l thought was looking a little dehydrated, wrinkly skin!!! So gave him a soak in a bowl, and now the dogs are looking at me, and yes……………….
Vickie
Hope you are feeling a bit better today, a friend had her first chemo about 10 days ago, and she has had such a sore mouth and throat, poor thing has really been suffering, so if anyone has any good remedies for the mouth ? she does have a mouthwash, something her dentist recommended xxx
Gill,
Hope you are getting all your Lunches, Dinners and Chocolate in before chemo starts, do you have a date yet? xxx
Isabelle, you sound as though you are doing really well, hope it stays like that. xxx
Lee,
The smell of tomatoes in a greenhouse, always remind me of my granddad! Does anyone else have a flower/plant that reminds them of someone?
I do have a couple of bra’s from Marks and Spencers that have pockets in them, but l also wear my normal bra’s sometimes. On another thread a lady told me the NHS pays for 3 of your bra’s to be fitted with a pocket once a year, l will ask my bcn, l have quite a few bra’s and it seems a shame if they can’t be worn.
Decorating, Yes good idea Hope, l think l will decorate our bedroom, having had the others done recently it is looking a bit sad! And it will give me something to do in the summer, when l can’t sit in the garden! Xxx
Suze,
Not long now then until chemo! That will soon come round, fingers crossed for an easy ride, is the wig similar to your own hair, or have you gone different?
As for the tap classes, lf l ever do it! I will make sure l am firmly fixed with lots of pins, would hate it to jump out and hit someone! might get done for gbh! xxx
Heather, You remind me of my uncle, always a story to tell, keep it up!
You also reminded me of one of my dogs, it must have been just after Christmas, because we had cold turkey for dinner! I set the table, leaving the turkey in the fridge, everything ready l placed everything on the table, went to tell my husband and two sons that their dinner was ready, they all sat down, and l went into the kitchen for something, l heard a lot of noise then they all came out and said “very funny, now where is the turkey” l looked blank, then looked in the fridge, thinking l hadn’t put it out, then l went to look and there on the table was the plate with foil over it just as l had left it, l lifted the foil and there was a lonely turkey wing, there was loads of breast meat, but it had gone! The funny thing is the foil didn’t look like it had moved, but we hunted the culprit down, yes my Benji, he was fast asleep with a very fat tummy! Good job l had a tin of cornbeef in the fridge!! Must say at the time l was very concerned about Benji, he had eaten an awful lot, thought he was going to bust. He must have had a mad Christmas, because the day before we were all sitting talking, Benji was asleep, all of a sudden he woke up, walked over to the Christmas tree and cocked his leg!! I couldn’t believe it, my youngest fell off the chair laughing. Poor old thing, he was getting old!
Hope you all enjoy the lovely weather, they say it will change for the end of next week! but what could we expect it is a bank holiday!!
Hugs to all
Sandra xxx
Hi ladies,
Thought I was having a good day yesterday until last night that was.
I finished my anti biotics on Thursday and by last night I had cystitis just like yourself Sandra.
I was too late to go to the doctors (emergencies only at weekends) so I stayed up late and drank loads of water to flush out my system, then I was up seven times through the night for the
loo!! Went to the chemist this morning and they sorted me out with drink sachets to last me over the weekend and said I should get anti biotics on Monday if it is still bothering me, feeling much better than last night though. If it’s not one end it’s the other!!I can totally sympathise with you Sandra. Just waiting now for Tuesday’s results. It’s been a loverly day and I am getting used to this sitting in the garden lark, I will get lazy if I do it much longer, I’m not used to having this much time to myself as I’m usually at work, it’s good that it’s such loverly weather to be able to enjoy the fresh air…
Hope everyone has a loverly weekend,
Best Wishes,
Isabelle xxx
hi everyone,
still feeling yukky today, am going to see about changing my anti sickness tablets next time, and whether i can get some others from gp in the morning, have been using my emergency ones today. Also achy this time, wasn’t so much last time, but i have had the neulasta injection rather than the 5 i had last time. For the mouth problems, i have had difflam ( i think its called) but yes my mouth was sore too, and throat is already revving up now! Thaks for everyones encouraging words, at least this time i know i did have some good time before the next round, and the next rund will be half way there.
Vickie
Hi everyone,
I’ve not posted for a while, so if I forget anyone, please forgive me.
Vickie and Isabelle, I am sorry you are both having a hard time, don’t forget to drink loads of water all the time, it seems to help me. But then you are both on your 2nd chemo already and I am only 12 day after my first one.
Sandra, Sorry to hear about your we-wee. Hope you are better now and that your family party is going well. Don’t do the ironing today though !
Lee, you seem to be busy in the garden, I am impressed. I did some weeding yersterday and actually enjoyed it ! Not managed planting anything though, but where I live is the height of Ben Nevis and not a lot grows, that’s my excuse anyway.
Heather, you always have a story to tell, great stuff and congratulations on your university studies Wow.
Suze, don’t look at it as the dreaded chemo, look at it as part of your journey. Some parts of good and other parts have to be done.
Gill, I live the French part of Switzerland, but I have been to Grindlewald, it is beautiful.
Chris, Thanks for tagging along.
I have been so busy, since I last told you anything, I don’t know where to begin. Going out with girl friends for a meal, getting a massage, choosing a wig (my orange hair is still stuck to my head), gardening, organizing the clearing out of my kitchen for June, organizing my trip to UK, visiting the zoo, hovering my internet modem ( keeps stopping) and goodness knows what else, I can’t remember!
I get tired very easily, so I do a lot of resting in between, and my mouth is feeling worse and worse, but my appetite is OK, although nothing tastes as it should. Well now I am going to wash up before having a bath and watching Britain’s got talent ( yes, got Sky TV, here)
Love to you all
Maria
Hi ladies,
I hope everyone is having a good day in the sunshine if possible.
Maria, I hope you are having a good day today, a meal with the girlfriends and a massage sounds good.
I am feeling much better today after getting medicine from the chemist yesterday.
I have not had my results from my WLE and SNB yet so I have not started and futher treatment yet, so I’m not having chemo or anything else yet, was just feeling a bit lousy the other day, thanks for your concern. I hope all goes well with your chemo and that it doesn’t interfere with your taste buds too much to spoil those loverly girly meals out.
Vickie, sorry to hear that you are feeling so awful with the chemo. I can’t really comment as I don’t know what I have to come yet, but thinking of you and hope you feel better soon.
Best Wishes to all,
Isabelle xxx
Hi Ladies,
Isabelle, sorry to hear you are/were suffering too!! Mine seems to be under control now! Thank goodness.
Hope you get the results you want on Tuesday, Good Luck!
Enjoy the sunshine while it is here! xxx
Vickie, Really sorry to hear you are feeling yukky, so hopefully different anti sickness tablets will help! hope the aches are easing as for the mouth!! seems everyone has that problem, such a pain. but as you say, you did have some good times before the next round, and you will again. Half way through…sounds good to me!
Maria,
Just to wish you a safe journey on Tuesday, and that you enjoy your stay with your parents, it will be lovely for you to see your family, big hugs all round!
I am sure your ‘boys’ will have fun without Mum there watching them! think of all those John Wayne films they can watch!
Are you far from the airport? and what about this end, hope you haven’t a long journey, sometimes the road journey takes longer than the flight!
As you fly over England, look out for a very large flag, it will have ‘Welcome to England Maria, Hugs Sandra xxx’
PS, Oh Maria, just seen your other post, re hair!! what a pain, don’t forget to pack your wig!
No wonder you are tired! you have been keeping yourself really busy, l can’t wait to dig the garden, l have been doing the odd tidying up jobs, but not ready to ‘dig’ its good to be in the sunshine!
Hi to all the other Ladies, hope you are all keeping well
Lots of Hugs
Sandra xxx
Hi Everyone,
Isabelle, I’m glad you are feeling better, we all have bad days and have the right to them, makes the good ones more special.
Sandra, so how did the party go? I hope you enjoyed it. Say Happy Birthday to the birthday boy from me. Don’t make him mow the lawn today !!
I’m off to have my hair cut really short, as it is starting to come out now, although I have always had lots of it so it shouldn’t all come out it the hairdressers hands, at least I hope not. Not my lovely orange hair!
I’ll put up my new photo later.
Hope everyone has a good day today.
Positive thoughts to you all
Maria
Hi
Well not sure what happened to the ‘bit’ l posted about the ‘party’ We had great fun, within minutes of grandchildren arriving we were all soaked to the skin! the water pistols were at the ready when they arrived, but l soon regretted that! Why do children not understand the words “keep the water pistols outside” there l was in the kitchen checking what time what will be ready! along comes grandson, “look grandma! l turned round and spash” never realised a water pistol held so much water! my daughter-in-law came to see what was going on, by this time the other grandson came behid her, before l could say no! the kitchen was like a paddling pool! At least she was as soaked as l was. I thought this isn’t fair, so decided l needed to soak to others in the family!! called them into the garden to help lift something and…yes!
The grandchildren decided they would put the candles on the cake, could hardly see the cake for candles, and thought once l lit it, l may need the water pistols!
The children decided they would have their ‘bath’ in the garden, which they did, then it was home to bed for them!
They have a week off next week, so a few outings will be arranged!
Thank you for the Birthday wishes Maria, l will make sure he doesn’t work too hard today!
Good luck with the hairdressers, probably make it feel better being short, might not notice so much when it does decide to leave you!
Look forward to the photo!
Love and thoughts to all, have a lovely day
Sandra xxx
Sandra, I glad the party went well, even if you had to wash the kitchen floor, water pistols are such fun if you are on the right end of them !!
Well, here we are and I feel comfortable. The photo is not the most flattering, but never mind.
My hair cut cost me more than I had anticipated because I had to go with my down’s syndrome son, and of course he wanted a a hair cut too!! He loves a pretty girl and there were plenty there, so he had fun and they all enjoyed his sense of humor (he is very cheeky) He wanted to have a go and cut my hair too, but ended up helping blow dry it. I think he wants to become a hair dresser now when he “grows up”. I then looked around the shops a bit (not much with my son in tow though) and saw some lovely summer hats. I’ll probably treat my self, maybe when I am in England. Any ideas of where to go, Ladies ?
Have a happy day
Love to all
Maria