Best wishes to all, mammos whatever you are having. Where has this year gone. I think with everything we have had to take in and more, our days have flown past. Thinking of all, great to share our experiences. Lol xxxxx
HI all had my first mamogram today and I PASSED no cancer present.So we booked a cruise for december it will be our first holiday since diagnosed.Good luck to anyone else having a mamogram Hugs Sandra
So happy for you Sandra. You must feel so relieved. Enjoy your cruise, you certainly deserve it. Lol xxxx
So lovely to hear the good news coming in, hoping for even more for you Cheryl and Beryl *bendy bits all crossed*
As always, definitely up for cake to celebrate (although I’ve eaten half a dozen mince pies, a slice of blueberry tart and a very posh bread & butter pudding already today, but there’s always room for more isn’t there :womanlol:)
xx
Sharon
Evening everyone, some really good news on here, lovely! Clear mammos a fantastic result. I’m due my yearly one in January but as I’ll only finish my rads in December I’m not sure if they’ll do it then. Just had no 17 of 26 and feeling pooped. However, skin doing well so far, slapping on the Aqueous Cream which seems to work for me. Xx
Hi ladies
Fed up now :womansad: I’ve been waiting patiently for my biopsy results on the ‘good’ boob and got a call today saying that they’d only done a fine needle biopsy and that didn’t give them enough tissue to determine a result. So, back for another core biopsy on 9th December.
Grrrrrrr. Hope you’re all having a better time of it.
xx
Sharon
Sharon, what a pain. Why didn’t they do it properly the first time. Day 20 of the rads done today, 6 to go. How will I spot you on Monday? Will you be carrying a pineapple?!
Francine you do make me laugh! Hope the skin is still holding up?
Sharon it’s probably just NHS inefficiency. Fingers and everything else crossed for you xxx
Oh yes I could wear a plastic boob on my jacket! Had session 21 of 26 today, nearly there. Sore spot not getting any worse thank goodness and they say my skin is holding up very well. The radiographer was a rather gorgeous young man today, with a very gentle touch! Really must behave myself, at my ripe old age, growing old very disgracefully!!
Evening ladies :womanhappy:
Francine I’ve sent you a PM with my mobile number but you’ll spot me easily on Monday as the ginger hair is always a giveaway (photo on my profile page here too). Glad to hear the radiotherapy is going OK and hope you’re not too fatigued but a bit of carol singing and some mulled wine will sort us both out I’m sure. Should we have a small wager on which of us will be the first to blub at the concert? I’m pretty sure it’ll be me as I’m all over the place waiting for yet another biopsy and the slightest little thing has me weeping.
Thanks for kind words Rosemary, hope you’re doing OK still and looking forward to a relaxing Christmas break in a few weeks. Is there any treatment for your arthritis and spine problems or is it just painkillers as and when? Or wine of course. And cake. And photos of George Clooney always lift the…err…spirits…I find :womanvery-happy:
Beryl you’ve got me humming the Copacobana now as I picture myself dancing round the room with a pineapple on my head :womanlol:
Love to all
xx
Sharon
Evening all :womanhappy:
Been to the London BCC Candlelight Carol Concert tonight and got to meet Francine at last; she is every bit as lovely in real life as she is on the boards, and her daughter is a delight as well. The concert was fab with a beautiful church, excellent choirs, great readers (including Cherie Blair, Vanessa Redgrave & Catherine Tate) and mulled wine/mince pies too. Hope we managed to raise some money for BCC.
Great news about your results Cheryl, so glad for you that you’ve finally got a bit of good news.
Off to the ballet tomorrow night to see Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty which is getting rave reviews so looking forward to that. In fact, I’m doing everything I can to avoid thinking about the next biopsy which is due next week although having a throbbing boob isn’t helping at all. Sigh.
Love to all
xx
Sharon
Ah thank you Sharon, you’re lovely too and just as I’d imagined you! Had a lovely time but was completely knackered by the time I finished my rads yesterday. Nearly missed my train home as I forgot it was from Kings Cross not St Pancras. Mad dash across the road but got there in time. Have you been in the restored St Pancras hotel, it’s an amazing place to go for a drink. Anyway, cannot believe that today is my last zap and from tomorrow I’m marching on!!! Skin has finally given up the ghost and broken down in a very awkward place, right where the bottom of my bra sits. Very sore but hoping the team will dress it and give me something to take away. Really can’t face trekking backwards and forwards to the hospital any more. 900 miles on the road to and from there is enough for me! Keeping everything crossed for your biopsy next week. Cheryl, great news, what a relief, sooo pleased for you. I just want to thank all you lovely ladies for your support over the last year, it has made an immense difference to how I’ve coped through some very dark times. Love you all. Xx Francine
Hi lovely ladies, so pleased for the good news and Eileen certainly not been easy for you. They say these ‘thing’ are meant to try us and they surely do. All these appointments are keeping our minds working thats for sure. I have my mammogram on 23rd December, last year 22nd . My appointment with my surgeon 15th January, times flying already. Having probs with side effects with anastrozole, affecting my joints, in my hands and trigger thumb. Oh what we go through, but I know I shouldn’t moan. Not long to wait now Sharon, so annoying they didn’t get it right. My boob is not as painful now but still get ripping feeling if a wrong move. Have been massaging the oil in the scar though and doesnt feel as lumpyand not had the burning sensation. Well, we will soldier on as we have this last year. A year in which I have been at least lucky in meeting all of you wonderful bunch. Lol and hugs xxxxxxx
Guess what, today’s session was cancelled and I have to go back tomorrow! Champers back in the fridge again! I will get the damn rads finished.
Hi lovely ladies,
Eileen what an awful year you’ve had; so sorry to hear about your Mum & Dad, it’s always so painful to lose them no matter how old we are when it happens. I’m sure you’ve got plenty of precious memories of them though so I hope that is at least some small comfort on the difficult days ahead.
Glad to hear you’ve finally got a bit of respite from the stabbing pains Pandorra and all fingers and toes crossed for your annual mammogram check, it’ll be a relief for you to get it over and done with I expect. Not liking the sound of that ripping feeling you’re getting though *hunts around for vomit bucket again*
Any news of the finger problem Beryl? I know I’ve said it before but oh my, those anti-hormone medications sound just awful :womansad:
Francine are you done with the radiotherapy now? Swinging from the rafters of the hostelry nearest your hospital while eying up the medical talent I expect! Now leave those little radiotherapy lads alone, they’re only young! If I remember correctly the rest of us were all too tired to party even in a virtual world, the fatigue sort of creeps up on you doesn’t it but at least it’s all over.
My mood is getting lower the longer I have to wait for this next biopsy so I’m not exactly a pleasure to be around at the moment. However much I tell myself that there is almost certainly nothing to worry about I can’t seem to stop the ‘what if…’ thinking and three weeks is a ridiculously long time to have to wait in these circumstances. But I am making the most of all the Christmas stuff that’s on at the moment so it’s not all doom and gloom. Ballet on Tuesday was amazingly beautiful, went to a wonderful Christmas market in an old Elizabethan Hall on Thursday, Christmas lunch with a group of friends on Friday so all good.
Hope everyone else is doing OK too.
xx
Sharon
Hello everyone. At last I’m marching on! Never had my last rad, no 26, as I decided not to have it. My skin has broken down very badly now and I’m swathed in dressings. They kept postponing the last session and in the end I made the decision that I wasn’t going to subject myself to any more. Having had 25 sessions and travelled over 900 miles for them I’d had enough and told them so. Mentally and physically exhausted. I’m sure that missing one out of 26 isn’t going to significantly affect my chances of a recurrence and I’ll live with that. They weren’t happy but I told them it was my decision and I had the right to make it. I am a person after all not just a boob! Anyway, having to go the GP every day to have the boob dressed, it’s a right mess. Finding a bra to fit over the dressings is not easy and being large on top I can’t go without outside the house. Can’t wait to take it off when I get home! Thinking of you Sharon and I’m sure all will be well with the biopsies. CxFrancine
Great news Beryl. So pleased for you. My BCN was hopeless never made any contact with me after my three ops and never responded to any phone messages. Just been to have my dressing checked at the GP and was really pissed off to be told that because of cost, the hospital had given me the cheapest dressings which weren’t very good for radiation damage. She’s now ordered some better ones which she says will help it heal much quicker. We’re driving down to Somerset on 23rd for Xmas and I’m hoping to share the driving. At the moment I can’t wear a seatbelt comfortably at all, even with a pillow! Sending everyone hugs xx Francine
Yep, my GP Is fantastic and so supportive. She is very fed up with the hospital and says I should make a complaint at the way I was spoken to. However, I don’t want to carry any anger with me, if you know what I mean and just want to move on and have a good Xmas. As we all know, life is too short. I have the new dressings now so hopefully things will start to heal up. Hope Sharon is OK. Just for a change, lol, husband is off to hospital tomorrow to see an ENT consultant. Makes a change! Francine x
Hi Everyone! I totally support you Francine! Congratulations on your completion! !!! How is the skin now? Today I finally see the plastic surgeon to get my surgery date to have the expanders out and implants in! Freaks me out a bit…another surgery. My husband is deceased and I think about getting all my financial affairs in order but have work to do! And hope for the best. I must say my armpit nodes are feeling strange kind a like at the beginning of diagnoses/burning. I will let him know today. God definitely has a greater plan. Thy will be done. God bless you all!
Sue
Evening ladies and hello Jill, welcome to the boards!
Went for my core biopsy today and the consultant (yet another one I hadn’t met before) couldn’t find anything that needed biopsying so I just had some more mammogram pictures done and was sent away again. Not really sure how I feel about that to be honest other than tired and low still.
Glad to hear others are moving ahead and good luck to everyone still waiting on their follow up checks or next stage of treatment.
love to all
Sharon