Well done to all three chemo- finishers! I am at the point of thinking that it may never end, so good to have confirmation that it does!!
Julie- thinking of you - my third fec is Monday. I do hope you’re coping with this one ok.
We have moved house this week, so def agree with recent comments - what afternoon nap??! Might try and get the tree done before FEC3 on Monday…
Tracey x
Hi all
Stella- yes boys are looking forward to Xmas but they’re 14 now (twins) so don’t beleive but we’re spending it with all my family up north and I have a few nieces ages from 1- 9 so lots if excitment there also have a sister who is 21 Xmas eve so a big party too ! I think as long as you get your Christmas dinner it doesn’t matter when it is.
My next chemo was on the 17 dec but asked for a 2 week delay so it now on the 31 dec don’t mind we don’t really celebrate new year much. That will be TAC 4 so the light is near !
Shell x
Hi all
I’ve just finished my week of having injections to boost my white cell count. They were fine but I could have no more injected myself than fly to the moon! Fortunately I live near to my hospital so went to the chemo unit each day. Hopefully I will be OK for FEC 6 on Dec 22nd.
Julie, that’s brave of you cooking Christmas dinner for 12! I’m getting together with a friend of mine and we are intending to be laid-back!
Campervans are obviously going to be popular next year!
My GP signed me off work till the end of February yesterday to cover the period I’ll be having radiotherapy, and although it’s still a little while yet it made me think about getting back into ‘normal’ life and I must admit it seems a bit scarey. I mean, I want to get on with my life but I feel like there are things I want to do that I’ve been putting off and after all this I know I’ve just got to get on and do them and that could mean a few changes.
Anyway, hope all of you who are having chemo in the next week get on OK.
Lilac, it must be FEC 6 for you next week?
Love to all,
Amanda
Hi all,
Just got back from hospital after 3rd FEC on Thursday. They changed my anti sickness and put me on a glucose drip and ant sickness drip for 2 days. It worked on the sickness but I have managed to put on 12 pounds in 2 days!!!
Really glad this one is over and can now start looking forward to Christmas.
Rusty & Amanda - yes it was my choice to have 12 to dinner for xmas and I will probably have too many helping hands in the kitchen!
Tracey - Good luck with your chemo on Monday.Well done with moving with all this going on.
Best wishes to all
Julie
x
Well done Julie…thank goodness it was a bit better this time! xxx
Hi Amanda,
Yes, FEC 6 on Wednesday, can hardly believe it. The whole thing has gone in much more quickly than I’d expected. Was told I’d get an appointment for rads planning before the end of chemo,but haven’t heard anything yet. Maybe the snow has delayed everything.
Yours is very close to Christmas, hope you’re feeling all right on the day.
Interesting how a number of us are talking about the changes we are going to make when life starts getting back to normal, although I think ‘normal’ is going to be very different! For a start, I am going to cut my Christmas card list way down, just because there are so many people on it I’ve no contact with and will probably never see again. But more presents - for the friends and neighbours who have been a tower of strength, even if it was just texting me on chemo day to let me know they were thinking of me.
Lilac x
Lilac, really like your new picture!
All the best for FEC 6.
Amanda x
Good luck for Wednesday Lilac. Feels strange, end of chemo, definitely in limbo. Finished but still a long way to go, if you know what i mean. Trying to think about Christmas, not the next round of treatment or the appointments starting again next week.
I have been having horrid hot flushes for the last couple of weeks, sweating in the middle of the night, like waking up drenched at 3 or 4 am and not being able to go back to sleep. Then going bright red in the face for 20 minutes at a time in the middle of the day. Not looking forward to that happening in public, it is such a cliche. i wonder if it is going to settle down or if Tamoxifen is going to mean more of the same?
No HRT to help us out, that’s for sure!
Love to all
Rusty
ps had the same thought, to change my picture too! This was taken this morning. Celebrate the starting point for my new hair!
Hi Rusty
Lovin your new profile photo. As for hot flushes, mine have been shocking! Defo worse at night. I must wake up 4 or 5 times absolutely boiling and then I get freezing cold after a while! I do get them in the daytime but they do not seem as bad. Maybe is because I am wrapped up in a duvet! I have to wear a hat to bed to start with cuz my head gets so cold! but through the night its hat on hat off hat on hat off ect… I hope this settles down too because I could do with a sleep right through the night!
Hope you cool down soon and maybe might get to meet you at the Churchill some time
All the best
Bird
xxx
Thanks Bird, sorry you have the same problem, you on tamoxifen too next? It’s horrible not sleeping properly, running on empty all the time. Maybe it will settle down… Hope so. I get too cold with no hat in bed, but it won’t stay on while I sleep 
Do you know when your radio is going to start? Definitely try to meet for coffee if we are around at the same time.
X Rusty
Lilac and Rusty - loving the new profile pics. Have to get another done myself now I have a small bit of growth going on.
Hope everyone is doing well.
I have had a lovely day today at my grand-daughters first Birthday party. Something I stressed about big time in May when I was given my diagnosis. She really is a beautiful little girl and has given me such pleasure this year at times when I’ve been feeling so c**p!
What a shame I can’t put a photo on here and share with you all.
Rads planning session yesterday went ok. They have agreed to start in the New Year, although they had already booked my start date for next Thursday. I’m so pleased to be having a bit of a break from all the appointments and travelling back and forth.
Just got to go in next week to have my line removed, which I’m really pleased about as I was originally told I’d have to wait until January.
Had a great night out with my three closest girlie friends. We go out once a month and since all this started they have insisted on paying for my meals etc. Last night I took great delight in taking all three out to a local resturant and footing the bill for as much as we could all eat and drink - and boy! did we eat and drink! All three have truly been the greatest support network I could have asked or wished for. I will be eternally grateful for their individual time and kindness.
and to top it off…Cher got kicked off of XFactor- result!! LOL!
Hope you all have a good weekend.
Karen
Hi All,
Will have to work out how to put on a profile picture…
Julie- so glad you feel better than last time. They have new anti nausea for me too, so we can be ‘fatties’ together!
Lilac- saw you had posted on a diff thread about veins being sore. Mine are very painful- was told to put something cold on them, and take ibuprofen. Stretching and twisting seem particularly sore. I am hoping it will wear off faster than some of those postings seemed to suggest…
Not looking forward to morning, but that will be half way, and my last FEC, before the Tax and herceptin in Jan,
All the best to everyone,
Tracey
Good luck for tomorrow Tracey, it feels good to be half way there!!
Lets hope you don’t join me in the fatty club though.
Let me know how you get on.
Julie
x
Good luck for tommorrow Tracey
Shell x
Good luck, Tracey - half way there!
Lilac x
Hi Tracey
I remember that the third FEC was for some reason the hardest for me, mentally. Four and five were the downhill stretch if you like (and six is the end so that was easy!), so after this one you should hopefully start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
So anyhow, chin up and hope it went ok.
Lilac i’ve been thinking about your comments as i have been contemplating writing my Christmas cards (haven’t actually got to writing any yet!). There are about 20 people that we always send cards to that we have not seen or spoken to since summer 2009, the old crowd my OH used to work with. I just don’t know what to write - “merry Christmas, how are you, by the way I have been having treatment for bc for the last six months, where were you?”
But then again, I didn’t tell them, so why would they know? But are they really friends if they are not close enough to know what is going on in our lives…? And if I send a card and don’t say anything, it feels just as strange.
I shall have to sleep on it some more.
Love to all
X
Rusty
Lilac - Good luck for tomorrow and well done for getting to your last one ! Hope it all goes well x
Shell x
Hope all went well Lilac!
Julie - you doing ok?
Rusty- thanks for that. This one has actually not been as bad as number 2 for me, although I was dreading it as was really sick with second FEC. They gave me Emend this time (magic drug, but very expensive, so think you have to be feeling pretty crap first). That’s my FEC done, and 3 Tax and 18 herceptin, starting on the 4th and 5th Jan. What do they say about a change being as good as a rest??! Ha ha! With you with the Christmas cards thing. I’ve found I’ve had extra ones to write, for people who I did not know that well, but have really rallied round, but like you, ones where you just think, what’s the point? Especially those who have no doubt heard ‘the news’ on the grapevine, but have not been in touch…
From, Camper vans, to a ‘friends cull,’ perspectives change don’t they? Hey, bit philosophical for 7.30am, check me out!
Love, Tracey
Lilac - hope last Chemo went ok for you today without any problems. Hopefully you will be feeling ok by Christmas.
I got my starting date for Rads for 5th Jan and my line is being taken out next Tuesday, so Christmas will be pretty much ‘normal’ for me.
Have just returned about an hour ago from a Christmas shopping trip to MK with just over 100 Year 11 Students. I’m knackered! but not half as much as I would have been just a month ago.
Works ‘do’ tomorrow night. Don’t usually go but they have all been so supportive this year I thought I’d make the effort.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Jane - how are you and that beautiful little daughter of yours?
Karen
Karen - my goodness me you are brave or should that be crazy! shopping with over 100 students!!! Not surprising you are knackered! I hope you rewarded yourself with a very large drink!
I start my rads on 4th Jan and have 20 zaps! So thats Jan taken care of then.
Rusty - when do you start your rads? have you got a date yet? I have to say that the planning session was amusing. I’m not sure why I found it amusing, maybe its because out of all the appts I have had lately this one was the easiest. Although I did feel quite vunerable spread out across the table with my arms in weird stirrup type things and my boobs out again!!! I was given a lovely pink tunic that I have to wear for all my rads. Its all done up with velcro - quite a kinky number really!!!
I showed my husband the little tattoo dots that the radio peeps put on me - he said the one in the middle of my boobs looks like a big black head!!! Great. I hope these dots fade with time.
xxx