The Consultant said there was nothing on the ultrasound that she felt was a concern, just to keep checking for any changes from time to time. She had my recent mammogram pictures there as well and she went over them again whilst I was getting dressed, again nothing she said that would be of concern. My poor OH admitted on the way back he hadn’t slept at all well last night as he was worried. I couldn’t stop thanking the Consultant on the way out.
Spoke to the nurse from my clinic when I got home, she said I can just take it I am been discharged from the clinic part now. However, she pointed out I’m still classed as their patient and not to worry about ringing them up between mammos if I’m worried or not sure about anything as they can get an appointment quickly.
I can’t wait to get the tree out of the attic at the weekend. Tell you what, I’m also planning a flaming good holiday next year as I’ve let this year pass by.
This time last year I was just finishing chemo and Christmas was not much of a celebration. In January my dad went into a care home with dementia just as I was going in for my first operation. I had 3 further ops in February, March and ending in a mastectomy in April. I then had another 4 lots of chemo and just as I was about to start radiotherapy my mum fell and broke her hip and dads condition worsened and he was transferred to a nursing home 13 miles away. I seem to have spent the whole year on autopilot looking after everyone else and can’t wait to say good riddance to 2011. Next year will no doubt have its down times with dad not being able to get better and mum needing a lot of care but I will be getting my reconstruction surgery and its also my 50th in April so I’m planning a massive party!
This Christmas I will be ignoring the warnings about eating sensibly and not drinking. I intend to graze like a small heiffer throughout the festive period and enjoy a drink or several!
Bottoms up!
Debs
x
Cherub, brilliant news! I hope you have a fantastic time. I’m coming up to 4 yrs from dx for my recurrence in May 2012 and I’m terrified as it was 4 years from dx for my primary that the recurrence happened! So 2012 for me is a scary year, hard to get anyone to understand who hasn’t been there. But am hoping for a good xmas this year as going to see my son and his girlfriend and my granddaughter in Moscow in a week or so, back before xmas day, then hopefully a quiet day with my OH - the first time we’ve EVER had it alone together in the 15 years we’ve been together.
Hope everyone has a good day, Mo x
Xmas Eve: Visiting the Ghosts of Christmas past - graveyard with flowers for dad and light some candles.
Xmas Day: I am going to stay in my Reindeer jim jams all day, eat chocolates and cake and mince pies, drink champagne and cook M+S ready prepared Xmas dinner for me and OH. Going to decorate my cat in her new diamonte collar and tinsel and feed her turkey until she’s fat!
some lovely plans this year ladies. but its also sad to hear how many people have lost people .
18 year ago today my boyfriend of 6 years aged 23 died, and ive een quite sad and reflective today
2 years ago my mom was dx with BC, then last year i was having cemo, after C dx sept 2010.then this year when my treatment finished my mom found she had bladder cancer, they did major surgery but found it had spread, they tried cemo to shrink the tumours in the stomach nodes but it only worked a bit. They gave her 2 years, its shite, she is in pain a lot of the time.
but im determined to have a nice xmas with my mom and not loose precious moments with her. As i do worry like she does that this may be her last.
xmas day mom and step dad are comming over for dinner.
xxx
Four family members have invited themselves over for christmas day. I said “ok they but you can cook” So I shall sit in front of the telly for the first time in years and let someone else worry over half cooked turkey and screaming smoke alarms, ummm think I shall buy a bottle of Baileys!
Daysie, I like your Boxing Day plans. I lived in Essex for 20 years and if we were spending Christmas down there we used to go to Southend on Boxing Day to blow the cobwebs away from our heads. We’d have a brisk walk, a go on the amusements and eat chips and doughnuts on the seafront. It was lovely!
Hey Choccie Muffin and all of you lovely ladies on here, thank you CM for starting this thread… I am very nostalgic so to speak as its a year since I found the lump and this time last year I was waiting for my appt to see the oncologist. What a year. I know this time last year I was so scared cos the lump was there and I was convinced it was “bad” lump and was right. I have gone through so much emotion from scared, to being relieved when the consultant said i could be treated successfully after a lumpectomy and treatment dependng on what they found. I know after the dx on 21 Dec i was just so glad to be alive, even going out in the cold to defrost my car i embraced as it showed I was alive and had stuck the middle finger up to the evil that had entered my body un invited.
Now… its the end coming to another year, of year of fight, fear, being sick and given another chance to live again which I never thought I would have taken away last year. I was at first convinced it was my last Christmas. My friends family and everyon e on here have been fab, and I am too busy to go, so I will celebrate Christmas with renewed fight! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx