How did you find the 12 weekly paclitaxel? Im just about to start… hope you are doing okay. xx
Hi,
How is the Chemo going - I am assuming it is not something you get used to so I hope you are resting and may be half way through now? x
Hi Paulypops67,
How are you feeling after your lumpectomy? Good girl for doing your exercises.
I am still waiting for results of my CT scan from before Christmas and have my MRI this evening…
Hi Nikks,
It is never ending for you - hope you had a good Christmas x
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Hi Tabby-Lou,
How are you doing - I am still waiting - feels like a lifetime already but I am calmer now and can actually go 30 mins or so without thinking about Cancer x
Oh Tabbyc that made me smile so thank you - I have my MRI this evening so I feel very prepared now lol. x
Hi Sal,
How are things going? It really is tears one minute and then laughing the next isn’t it. I go from crying that I am ordering non wired bras for after surgery to laughing at the positive that I claim the VAT back!! x
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I’ll let you know as I am a 30FF - my mate said mine might touch the floor…
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They didn’t tell me this when I had my scan. When they inject the tracer dye it feels like you have wet yourself - but you haven’t. i remember lying there thinking ,how am i going to get out of here with no one seeing. I spent the next 20mins planning what to do. At least it made the time pass! HA ha! Good luck for tonight, I will be thinking of you.
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Hi @twinkletits
I had my 2nd EC last Friday. From Monday evening I felt rough. Bad all day yesterday. Glands are feeling a little less tender this morning, so hopefully coming out of it now for a week. Next due 19th Jan, then 3 docetaxil.
The weather is making me feel miserable too 
How are you feeling? X
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Hey,
It went to plan, the nodes were cancer free and the tumour was removed so I’m now cancer free…whoop whoop…official results Friday …I’ve got another year of the ‘preventative’ treatment and then the pills for another 5 so the journey hasnt ended but it feels good finishing the chemo.,that floored me.
So will start to get some normality back in my life.
Hope your MRI goes well.
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Hi,
I am doing well thanks, round 4 on Monday then only 2 to go! It’s feels like it’s going quickly after all the waiting of the previous months.
Fingers crossed you aren’t waiting too much longer and it’s great that you can have some respite from thinking about it! I promise it does get easier, I can even have some conversations without talking about cancer now 
I have started trying to meditate….not sure it’s my bag but il persevere for a bit longer!
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Hi Fromiechic,
How are you?
I know what you mean about keeping people updated I have already learnt not to tell everyone when I have an appointment etc so I do not feel guilty if I don’t let people know I am OK quick enough.
I am going to try the mindfulness stuff but I am a netball player and usually like to keep my mind active to take me away from my stresses - in fact when I have tried yoga in the past and they say now breathe at the end for half an hour I think I could be putting the washing on etc etc but I do want to learn…
I feel for you all that are having Chemo - I am still hoping I will avoid that part but who knows and you do give me inspiration that I would get through it so thank you.
x
I am so adding that to my playlist lol
Hi Diddy1,
How are you doing?
I am learning to put a time limit on my feel sorry for myself time - eg an hour in the morning and then late afternoon and then say right now get on with my day…
It worked yesterday anyway!!! x
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Thank you Nikks - Great advice about the eyebrows etc I didn’t even know about magnetic eyelashes!
Its the top tips I like on here. x
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Hi Isitrealltme,
It is so tough on you - it is hard to stay positive when you feel shit and the weather is horrible etc etc.
My daughter’s are preparing a film playlist for me because at the moment I find that is the best thing to distract me and as they are my favourite films and I doze off I can wake up and still know what is going on.
x
Luckily they told me that at my CT scan but I can imagine you laying there thinking oh shit…
The taste though 6 hours after my CT scan was awful though I felt like I had wool stuck in my throat - didn’t help I also had the start of a cold so this time I am drinking loads immediately afterwards.
x
Oh wow that is great news for you and selfishly it is great to see that we will all get off the cancer train eventually.
I feel buzzed for you xx
Hey Twinkletits!!
I’m ok today. So far…
You know what I am finding a bit much? The flowers. People keep sending me flowers and I know it is well meaning but I feel like shouting ‘Nobody has died!’
My consultant appointment is tomorrow when we discuss latest set of results and book me in for my 4th op to take more right tit off and remaining armpit lymph nodes. Oh how I am looking forward to a plastic covered bruised mammary and a stinky unwashable armpit again. Just when it was healing nicely.
And would it be mean of me to say that I am SO glad that Christmas is over and everyone around me has had to stop celebrating?
Let’s stay in touch.
Salbert Grinch Bah Humbug Sod This Bloody Cancer
P.S. I did actually have kale in my smoothie this morning. Amazing what despair can do!
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