Bug hugs Annie. Should have been my last one too. Mine now the 8th Sept. Good luck x
All the best for today AnnieA ? I hope it goes well.
Great to hear you’re feeling human again Heather and even better knowing that’s it for chemo. X
Great news Annie ??Hope all goes well.
I have bloods today fingers crossed ? for tomorrow.
Rain here. Hope everyone is well x
Back on the steroids and hubby bought me some protein shakes… I will try anything
AnnaA big day for you today the last one, the last time sitting in that chair reciting your date of birth over and over and holding your arm out for needles and prodding, the last time you have 2 sit and hear that beep, beep of the machines.
Heather - even better last one done and the worst of the SE easing off that is incredible I just can’t wait 2 be at that stage, well done you’ve actually done it and we are all so proud of you.
Trisha, the 8th will come xxxxx
Mai, hope the temperature is behaving.
I’m off 2 the oncologist at 11an then back 2 work again yesterday was not good. I struggled getting my head around eveything and just couldn’t do it. I felt disheartend and useless it’s upset me a lot. The problem is I’ve been out of the loop so don’t know what’s going on. My boss isn’t great at paperwork or documenting things he keeps it all in his head so it was hard for me 2 pick up. When I return properly he will be there but this week I’ve been chucked in at the deep end. I shouldn’t have agreed 2 it but I felt I wanted 2 my boss has been great throughout my treatment covering on his own and I just felt he deserves a few days off. But 2 be honest it’s knocked my confidence I feel worse now. However, today maybe will be better now I have my bearings a little bit. ??? ?
Right wolfee I feel the need to tell you how bloody amazing you are and I am so proud to have you as a virtual friend. ( that goes for all the May warriors) I could not go back to work right now for a range of reasons and the fact that you have is fantastic. You may not feel like your old self and let’s be honest we may never 
but you are fighting physically and coping with a whole bunch of emotions that go with that. I worry that my priorities have changed and I won’t feel that I have the same enthusiasm for work.
I know this must be hard but we are all behind you. More than once I have wished we could all meet have a few drinks and put the world to rights.
So here is my virtual hug and glass of ?.
Pep talk over 
Had a lovely long soak in an epsom salt bath last night and also de-fuzzed my legs and armpits - laying back in the water and finding it difficult to believe I’d be doing that again so soon. I also conditioned my couple of centimetres of new head hair - “normal” is returning - just wish my tongue would hurry up and return!
I really am thinking of you ladies waiting nervously for blood results - I think the closer you get to the finishing line the more relevant it all seems - just want this bit over and done with. I can remember this time last week - just praying all the time that nothing was going to stop the final chemo going ahead.
Weather not looking so beautiful here today in Sussex - we’ve had the rain they forecast and apparently more is on it’s way - hopeful that bedtime tonight might be a little more comfortable with regards to heat - cos combined with hot flushes it’s been a sweaty old time together with constant thermometer beeping!!!
Good luck with bloods/chemo and side effects and to all those on good days - enjoy!
Thank you girls for your encouraging words. I can honestly say I love you all and thank god I joined this group and found you all. This woukd have been so much harder without you.
(I agree a pub garden, jug of larger and a good chat and giggle would be so nice right now) one day I’m sure we can will???
Xxxxxx
Well said treehouse!
Just rang the bell !!! So glad it’s over! Quite a strange feeling for the last time xx
Just want to say very big thank you to everyone of you for being here the last 18 weeks really don’t think I would have made it without you xxx
KATIE YOU ROCK!!!
Really hoping I am right behind you. Well done ?
This is all getting a bit emotional as we get closer to the end.
I am recommending bcc to a friend of a friend who has just been diagnosed.
Everyone woman with bc should have a group like this to see her through.
Grr forgot second dose of steroids again. Damn you chemo brain. ?
Duck duckety duck duck!
And I just got THAT call. Neutrophils 0.8. Platelets 43!!!
8 day delay. Finish line moved AGAIN. Light getting dimmer.
And poop for you too Mai.
Not upset just frustrated.
Really hope you can avoid hospital admission again Mai but it is for the best if temp keeps rising. Hugs x
AND I am now dosed up on steroids for no reason ?
Tatyana we missed each other. I live in Malvern!!!
Well done Katie for finishing, that makes 3 of us now, welcome to the club!
Sending hugs and blood dances for those with naughty blood and temperatures, rest and feel better soon ladies ?? ?? ? ?
Mai, enjoy the rice pudding, I love it home made but would eat it all as no else in the house loves it…
Sick of the rain 
, have spent the afternoon in bed with electric blanket ?on watching catch up tv ? boys are playing Lego and Minecraft and husband is working ?
Still got a bit of a furry mouth but hoping it will be gone by the weekend, other than that side effects have gone, hot flushes are reducing, only had 2 last night that I was aware of.
Heather
Ha ha it’s raining cats and dogs today. We often get a sprinkling of snow on top of the hills in winter. It’s a pretty place to live but I have not been able to enjoy the hills while I have been off work. Far too much effort.
Docetaxel is toxic stuff it will kick its ar**.
Positive thinking of those chomping monsters doing their thing.
Saw oncologist this morning. I’ve not had a recent scan I had one early on after 2nd chemo because of the new lump that developed but haven’t had once since. I was a bit discouraged when the doctor today told me she could still feel it (I’ve never once felt my lump I just can’t find it) she did tell me though that the ER+ lumps don’t always go they don’t quite respond as well to the chemo as the triple beg and faster growing types however, they also run the risk of not responding at all she said they are less predictable. So not sure how I feel?? I’m hoping when I see surgical team tomorrow they will arrange a scan. I guess the surgery is what gets rid of it properly.
After that early scan I was really happy because it had shrunk a little. I think because I knew it had shrunk early on I’d expected it to keep shrinking at speed and was hoping it would have disappears to almost nothing by the end.
Congratulations to Katie and AnnieA on the bell ringing ??.
Treehouse, sorry to hear you’re delayed. Here’s a neutrophils and platelet dance ??? so that you can be my bell ringing partner on 7th September. X
Mai here’s a chill out dance for you ??
< hoping that naughty temperature ?comes down.
I’m now in Sussex with my parents in law. Lovely people although I think they think I’m a bit crazy going walking in the rain…
WolfEE, I hope work was better today but I find it hard enough trying to work out what’s in my brain let alone someone else’s so good for you going in while they’re away. It would sink most people.
It must be frustrating about the lump but surgery will take out any remaining lump and the chemo will have zapped any stray naughty cells. Here’s to a beer in a pub garden (without the rain) ??
x