I have only been missing a couple of days, but you lot have certainly been busy with your posts.
Glad you had a lovely holiday Lollie and welcome back, we can actually say to Sunny Britain at the moment!!
Dilys, Glad you seem a bit improved and hope it carries on that way. I have sent for some Jointacre patches in anticipation, don’t know if they will do any good.
They took 5 attempts to get a vein yesterday so have also got some of Lucy’s recommended moltivat. How long did it take for your aches to kick in Dilys? Also I guess you won’t have your radiotheraphy for a while until you have finished your Herceptin.
Lucy sorry you are down and hope you feel better soon, Dahlia has given some good advice and hope it helps.
We just need to hear from Candy now, hope she is okay.
I am ok…I just got in a state as one of my family died on Sun of Lung cancer and I didnt even know she was ill she was in her early 50’s & apparently she refused to have chemo & rads due to the effects one of which was the hair loss…it made me feel very guilty and I started worrying about myself, selfish I know…so I dont think Dahlia’s advice would help but it was a nice thought from all
So sorry to hear that news, it must be very hard especially when you didn’t know she was ill and you couldn’t comfort her or say your goodbyes. I guess she know about your condition and maybe wanted to protect you somehow from any further angst, people are like that. It’s a great shame she didn’t tell you because you could have encouraged her to go for treatment and told her it is do-able . I’m so sorry, it must feel awful. On a personal note I am postively paranoid about my privacy so there are plenty around me who know nothing so I can also understand that stance. I guess you’ll be feeling a bit raw about this but Google for “Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep”.
On Tuesday I had a mail from a colleague (she and I do the same role for our virtual team), she was covering my current absence until mid-Oct. Anyway, turns out she started sick leave 3 or 4 days after me for Breast Cancer and I am so shocked. I feel as if I should know exactly what to say and when to say it yet I am paralysed by all the fears and reminders of where I was this time last year. I am certainly going to write to her but it seems such a terribly cruel coincidence - two people in one team of about two dozen including 4 women. Well she’s a strong person and she’ll be ok.
Back to you, keep focussd on your Cornwall trip and let me know when you’ll be on the M4, I can easily cycle to Jcts 15 or 16 and wave at you or be there with tea and cake. If you fancy a stop by for cream tea you’d be more than welcome - seriously! I’d be delighted to meet up. Can’t wait until you are all finished with “this nonsense” so we can have a day in Lodnon meeting/greeting and I’m seriously wondering if we could do afternoon tea at the Dorchester (better than the Ritz I hear) as a real treat and beg them to give us a good price for BC “victims”.
So sorry to hear that, that is awful for you. Dahlia has said it all really. Have a huge hug and enjoy Carbis Bay. I have had holidays there and it is just gorgeous. And yes indeed Dahlia - Dorchester is a great idea. I had lunch there once for a departing work colleaue for some £20 a head. It was brilliant and we even glimpsed Gordon himself!
How are you Pauline? Hope all is well. With me I was “done” on the Thursday and the real trouble kicked in on the Monday. But getting better and better now, apart from the vile mouth and inability/unwillingness to eat. I can deal with that. Went to see Atonement yesterday and it was great - took me somewhere else for a couple of hours. Off to the traveling French Market in a moment! Something might tempt me!
I am so sorry you are leaving the forum, but I do know how you feel.
You and Dilys especially have been such a great support to my right from the very beginning.
I just want you to know that you have helped me more than I can ever say and that you really have made a difference to my life since this diagnosis.
For that I shall always be grateful to you.
I wish you all the best for the future and enjoy your holiday.
I just logged in to the forum. How long after finishing chemo can I sunbathe.I had a large lump in my left breast. It grew reapidly and my Oncololgist says it is XXX but my Oncologist says he cannot feel it anymore and has not been able to feel it for the last meetings which have been 3 weeks apart. I am very fair skinned but I go red first and then do get a a good suntan but I am now very white as I have been avoiding the sum. I live in Bermuda and it is sunny all the time. I have two treatments left and I am done having chemo and then I go back to my Surgeon to see if a lumpectomy is necessary and then to Boston for radiation.