Thanks mouseybrown - good luck with the onc. tomorrow!
I was told right at the start that i would have chemo. It increased my 10 year survival rate by 5% and was therefore recomended. Rads also increase non reoccurence I’m told. I should find out what chemo regime on Weds… down day today but trying to carry on as normal. Started driving yesterday felt much better - off for a walk with a fiend tonight x jen
Thanks Jen. My consultant has said all along that it’s a ‘possibility’, but both my bcns have told me to prepare for chemo, due to being 41, they think I’ll be thrown anything and everything to try to prevent further problems, which makes sense. So, I’m sort of thinking it’ll be chemo… but there’s still a big part of me hoping it won’t be!!
I was told if I had a wle then rads would be def., regardless of whether or not I had chemo, but with mx rads were more unlikely. Suppose I’ll find out Friday!
Well done driving - I am getting so bored that I can’t wait to get out and about, think it’s lucky I have my little automatic though, as I don’t fancy driving the Galaxy yet - the handbrake alone on that would be a bit of a strain right now!!
Have fun walking with your ‘fiend’!!!
Sophie xxx
Hi Sophie I’m 50 fit and healthy so was told no reason not to do chemo, it would only benefit. Let us know how you get on tomorrow mouseybrown - what questions have you prepared I keep forgetting to write down things and also burying my head! I asked so much at the beginning and now i just don’t want to know. my surgeon said i had multi focal chsnging areas - all in the same area as original - rest of breast was ok.
Walking with my freindly fiend oops! at 8pm and its freezing but surgeon said to join a gym and buy a dog to ensure i get exercise and walk!
Thanks summer11 - that’s def. something to bear in mind. Although I do dread chemo (although it’s less scary having read firsthand accounts of it - that makes it much more easy to bear), there would be a relief in thinking that at least if there were a stray cancer cell or two lurking somewhere, I’d be doing all I could to blast the little buggers.
Do you want to borrow a dog? <grin> Got four here who’d never turn down an extra walk each day!!! OH is having to take them at the moment as dogs and drains are really not a good combination, particularly when the dogs are as young and bouncy as my crew. Ok, ok as young and over excited/badly behaved/downright mad as mine are. The hardest thing of all of this so far has being keeping my distance from the dogs - we’ve had cuddles over the stairgate, but no more than that yet. Still, won’t be long… and at least then I’ll be able to put some good miles in each day - try to shed the Jelly Baby weight I’ve put on since diagnosis! Six pounds!!! I thought I should have lost weight through stress… but apparently not. Doesn’t bode well…lol.</grin>
Sophie xxx
Back from my walk - very good i enjoyed it and the natter. Going to do the same again tomorrow! Where do u live Sophie - i’ll pop over and walk the dogs for you!! give your oh a break !
Just outside Salisbury!! Too far? You can always stop for a glass of wine/beer/coffee!!
Sophie xxx
Nice part of the country and wine sound good too although just been told it won’t taste nice during chemo!!
How are you getting on?
I’m not doing too bad - went over to a friend’s house yesterday for coffee and a change of scenery (watch her telly instead of mine!!), got chauffered there and back by my OH, felt like waving regally out of the window as we left.
Walked through the village today, first time I’ve been out for a walk, shocking really, but weather was too vile yesterday, and the day before it was so late by the time the district nurse had called that I didn’t really fancy it. Didn’t take a dog with me today - don’t think they’d have been impressed at my snail pace!!
Wine not nice during chemo??? Yet another reason to keep my fingers crossed for tomo that I get to avoid chemo…
Just starting to get a little anxious about appt. tomo, nothing major, just beginning to dawn on me that tomorrow may well give me an outline of what the next six months might look like…
Sophie xx
Well done Sophie I found it really good to get out in the fresh air and breath. ~Mind you this week I have walked so much I am looking forward to being a couch potatoe tonight. Feet up and glass of red. I def not happy that things won’t taste good with chemo but it is only for a short time, my oh says! I am nervous before all apts - mind goes all over the place. Good luck for tomorrow let us know how you get on,
mouseybrown how did you get on i have pre chemo chat tomorrow.
x x jx
Saw oncologist yesterday. She said that as only one lymph node had a cancer met in it I could either stay on tamoxifen for 5 years with a fairly low risk of cancer secondaries or go for chemo with all it’s side effects to try and kill any remaining wandering beasties. I opted for chemo and then was a bit wobbly yesterday afternoon so I started another thread asking for other ladies advice.
Almost every reply said to go for it.
She then prodded me about all over (looking for suspicius lumps methinks) and got me to sign some consent forms.
I have an appopintment next Monday with the MacMillan nurses and to get a heart trace.
I have had to have the wound drained 3 times (this op) and hope it stops refilling as they won’t start chemo while I have this second seroma. The wound still feels very tight after 3 weeks but I can now lift my arm up straight. I’m still being affected from the lymph op site from 8 weeks ago.
I will get my prothesis on 30th November - hurray!
Let me know how you get on Triphazard and Summer11.
Good luck to you both.
Wendy.
hi wendy i wasn’t given choice my surgeon said i should do chemo and tamoxifen. i only had 1 node too. are you having rads? what chemo are you having and also yippee about prothesis i havn’t had it mentioned yet so will prod tomorrow to find out… do u know when u start chemo yet? jenx
Hi Summer
Well this is all very confusing as my onc said that they would take me off the tamoxifen during chemo and restart it after it finishes. Maybe you are younger than me as they seem keener to give chemo to younger women.
I’m to have 6 cycles of chemo which basically means that I attend for about 4 hours whilst they put in the drugs, then go back every 3 weeks for the following cycles.
I expect to get the first date after my MacMillan appointment on Monday.
Rads haven’t been mentioned this time - I assume this is because there is nothing on which to put the radiotherapy!
Wendy
summer - regarding prosthesis - my bcn fits them six weeks post surgery, so I’d give your bcn a ring to find out what is offered in your area - prob. the best place to start, and doesn’t hurt to give them a reminder!!!
I’ll update you all tomo, have a good evening, feet up girls!
Sophie xx