Hi, my name is JudeAnne.
I had a grade 2 invasive lobular carcinoma about 4cm which was completely removed, plus 3 nodes, last September. It is the type where I will take hormone medication after everything for at least the next 5 yrs. I can’t remember which one. I have 5 weeks of chemo left, and then a few weeks of radiotherapy.
The side effects could have been been a lot worse from what one reads and what I was told. So I am thankful for that. With the exception of a bout of shingles early in my chemo, the last few weeks I have had very little energy and has probably been the worst of the chemo side effects for me so far. With the exception that after having my covid booster some weeks ago, my weekly chemo now somehow upsets the arthritis in my joins especially from my knees down, so that on about the third day after my chemo I get horrendous pain in them.
We, I, my husband, and our adult daughter live out in the middle of agricultural land on the eastern side of central southern Queensland, Australia, a 20 min drive to the nearest small town. We are in a valley of the Australian Great Dividing range. Lovely and quiet. We have only lived here for the last 3 yrs, just before covid hit. Before that we lived about an hour and a half east towards Brisbane our state capital city for about 5 yrs. Before that we were all born and bred in Victoria, 2 states or 1700 km south of here.
Derek and I are retired, and in our late 60s, our daughter, in her mid 40s, is a senior vet nurse at the university campus 40mins from here. Derek and I are owned by a pair of loving, but tyrannical Siamese cats, and our daughter by a Cocker Spaniel. All totally indoor animals.
I am very much into my crafts. I am a spinner, weaver, and embroiderer. I also knit/crochet, dye, read, and try a lot of other crafts.
Sorry I do tend to ramble.
Cheers